If i dont know how to do an excel automation, i always do the work manually in excel while recording the operations as a macro. In fact, vfp itself can be used as an automation server. Renting and buying made easy enter your isbn in the search bar and save up to 90% on textbooks. To start an automation session, the client creates or grabs a reference to an instance of the server. Importing data from a microsoft excel 2007 workbook using. Then look at the code that is generated by your changes. Importing data into microsoft excel from a visual foxpro. Similarly, you can use excel vba to open a word document and viceversa because all office applications support com automation. At least thats what every visual foxpro developer will tell you. Visual foxpro is a great database product, but its not a word processor or a spreadsheet. The most time consuming steps are 17 columns resizing and 21 add footer and page numbers. When i try to format excel cells with borders outline and diagonal i am. Borders and shading headers and footers page numbering organizing text with lists. Excel wrapper class wiki for microsoft visual foxpro development, software.
Use recording macro in excel and then translating that to vfp visit. And still, excel wins against a carefully crafted solution to automate data. Find answers to placing formula in excel sheet from vfp from the expert community at experts exchange. This is a list of other open source vfp projects that arent part of vfpx. Still are you asking sample code to connect to excel and do some stuff. I want to link this macro to every workbook created with the routine, and launch macro, but idont know how to link or bind the macro to the new workbook, and after that, launch. When used with a grid, it attempts to export 99% of all visual caracteristics from the grid. No part of this book, or the ebook files available by download from. I have a script that users can click and generate an excel file to download. Visual foxpro offers multiple ways to export data to excel. In microsoft office automation with visual foxpro, users learn how to create powerful applications that span the entire office suite, using visual foxpro in the drivers seat.
The borders collection contains border objects, with each object representing the eight borders of the cell. Managing servers displaying the office servers are we there yet. The answer is easy, but it introduces ideas of objects and their properties and methods. Excel add borders with vba in the most efficient way. Any application that can do com automation can open an excel file, modify, and and save it as an excel file if it is not read only.
Excel automation within vfp hi, i am not sure this is the right group for this. Dear friends, when exporting datas to excel from foxpro using the copy to command, there after trying to do some calculations and formating the excel file using automatation macros how could i integrate this in foxpro, i dont know where to start. Anybody know how to do this and not have the excel file be readonly when it gets opened. Export data to excel with conditional formatting from vfp. Automation client for excel, msdn article id q141759. The target audience for this session is the visual foxpro developer who. That then tells me what to do and how to do it in my vfp automation. In 29 steps, a sheet is formatted in a certain way. Placing formula in excel sheet from vfp solutions experts. Here is a program that converts report to excel instead of html clea all set default to c. You can import visual foxpro data into your microsoft excel worksheet if you have defined a data source for it.
The home of the visual foxpro experts powered by vfp7. I suggest you stop the program after the select, and take a look at the curinvoice cursor. Going there on the weekends in the late 90s was a great experience between the wide variety of latest best sellers peppered throughout the store, and being able to put on the builtin headphones to listen to the most. Driving word and excel from visual foxpro tomorrows solutions.
In this session you will learn about activex automation servers also known as activex server components. Export data to excel with conditional formatting from vfp 6 i use vfp 6 and export data to an excell spread sheet. If you dont know vfp, how would you connect using vfp. This book is an excellent introduction to automation, to office and, in chapter nine, excel charting, even if i was the technical editor. Do the work manually in excel and record the actions as a macro. This is a very basic demo of how to control a range in excel. I noticed that some steps take considerably longer time than others, and i wonder if theres other faster ways to achieve the same goal. Visual foxpro can be used to automateeither visually or behind the scenesany task or process that you could do manually in office, plus much more. The best way to program in excel is to begin recording a macro in excel, then make the changes to the cell, then stop the recording process. For information about creating a visual foxpro data source, see accessing a visual foxpro data source from microsoft excel.
What this means is that if you are running the german version of visual foxpro and you intend to setup an activex automation session with the us version of excel, excel will see and expect activex automation calls translated into german i. Check the comments for what it does the code within the with. Data connectivity components package to access and extract data from the excel workbook, either through a vfp remote view or. The excelxml project brings to visual foxpro the ability to generate an excel file from a grid or tablecursoralias. Manually perform the operations that you want to automate, such as entering information, formatting the cells and columns, and so on. Application, ive seen further steps fail, even simply oword. Add borders with vba excel dashboards vba and more. My problem in foxpro automation is that in my report excel their is many formula incorporated that why it is very slow. Visual foxpro developers are used to building large, complex applications using only vfp as their programming environment. Excel automation with vfp dan freeman programmer 1 nov 12 16. Ussap,r3,fico functional michele border vfp dan freeman programmer 1 nov 12 16. Export a tablecursoralias or grid control into a microsoft excel xml spreadsheet file, or xlsxlsx.
Frx to excel posted by yousfi benameur visual foxpro. Wikiexcelconstantsvfp, and also consider stealing john machins post as. In addition, vfp 7 lets you hook into the outlook event model and fire vfp code in response to outlook events. Has done some basic automation, perhaps using word or excel. This makes a widespread tool like spreadsheets the perfect candidate for automation. If you have microsoft query installed, you can create a data source in microsoft excel that connects to visual foxpro data.
In the final process, there are two2 excel generated by the program. Even your most cost sensitive customer might have now replaced their office 95 and office 97 installations, meaning theres no need to chastise yourself with excel automation. To import visual foxpro data into an microsoft excel worksheet. Right now i figuring on how to copy a certain sheet to the foxpro automation working so that after i transfer the data in excel i will copy the sheets with formula to the working worksheets. I just upgraded to office 2010 now i am wanting to take my current excel automation and be able to use the fill pattern wich is back in 2010 but i am not sure of the code for vfp 9. Then examine the macro to find out what you need to do and, in most cases, how to do it with vfp automation. Excel office automation archive alpha software message board. In this case, you start with a workbook, which is a collection of sheets. You may have noticed that i included xls which you would think is supported, but just try saving your excel 972003 xls workbook in compatibility mode in excel 2007 and then using the append from command on it. Creating an automation server instance isnt much different than creating any other object in vfp. As per the issue description you have installed microsoft ole db provider for visual foxpro but are unable to connect to it from excel. Export data to excel with conditional formatting from vfp 6.
How do i change the fontsize,backcolor,fontcolor of a cell in excel from foxpro. The first question that any vba beginner needs answering is how do i access the data stored in the spreadsheet. Then write the vfp excel automation code with the macro code as a model. You will see not only how to use activex automation servers from within visual foxpro, but also how to use visual foxpro as an automation server and how to build your own customer automation servers with visual foxpro. I writing a foxpro program that generate report from the excel. This is a great book for those starting to get acquainted with office automation specially for those who wanted to make use ms excel as the report writer via vfp. Write custom vfp ole automation code to automate excel and extract the data to vfp. If you need a word processor or spreadsheet, use one. Launch the object browser view object browser or f2 in some versions. Write a code snippet to populate an excel xlsx worksheet with data from a visual foxpro database. Visual foxpro general, com automation with excel top in this one note that you might skip vfp copy part but just kept that to signify its not vfp slowing this down. If so you dont only need to know vfp, but excel vba as well. Automating excel saves you hours that you can put towards providing great service to your. What seems to work is any weight with a continuous line, or any linestyle without setting the weight property.
For better suggestions on this issue you may also post your query in the forum link mentioned. This efficiently adds a boarder to a selection and is a nice addition to any personal macro workbook. However, if i copypaste the code to a visual foxpro prg and change. The builtin vfp report writer, is with no question a powerful tool, but when it comes to enduser report customization, ms excel is still the report writing tool of choice.
Post by rolly how do i update data on an excel file from visual foxpro. What we ve found with excel s borders may parallel vfp s design. Find answers to placing formula in excel sheet from vfp from the expert community at experts. Visual foxpro can be used to automateeither visually or behind the scenesany task or process that you could do manually. Have questions or feedback about office vba or this documentation. Now i am wanting to take my current excel automation and be able to use the. Biff8 xls mixes the vba entries alongside the core workbook entry, so. Vba for removing borders if cell contains x macros, vba, excel automation, etc. This is the code im currently using, and the file will open fine, but it is readonly for some reason. Paste into excel can be up to 80% faster than other rowbyrow manipulations. This session shows you how to create, access and manipulate word documents and excel spreadsheets from a visual foxpro application.
Visual foxpro can interact with outlook in a number of ways, either by driving the process or being called via automation. Ussap,r3,fico functional michele border excel automation within vfp hi, i am not sure this is the right group for this. Visual foxpro as a com client special edition using visual. Imagine, you have a cell with a complex format involving conditions, a background pattern, a border. This session uses microsoft outlook as both a primary and secondary com server and discusses the different ways that outlook and visual foxpro can work together to accomplish a myriad of functions. Book 1 shows presort formatting with the rows starting with closed or under contract. If you need to store data, of course, you store them in a table. Granor, tamar and della martin, microsoft office automation with visual foxpro, hentzenwerke publishing, 2000, isbn 09655093503.
It has a large suite of functions, is extensible via the vba scripting language, and the. If it shows all the rows you are expecting, then the problem lies with the automation code. Post by deepak i wanted help on excel automation using vfp 6. Microsoft office automation with visual foxpro tamar e. Change fontsize,color in excel from vfp too old to reply rolly 20041104 19. Again, if i run this code in vfp on the same server, it works. I created a new workbook and copy the two output excel. Excel how to do automation from vfp by jimoo faq184. Xlsm and xlsb store the vba cfb object in xlvbaproject.
The following code shows how to create and apply cell style. This collection wouldn t be complete without a series of constants describing the eight different borders. But windows users are demanding moreintegration with other applications such as the microsoft office suitword, excel, powerpoint and outlook. I noticed that some steps take considerably longer time than others, and i wonder if there is other faster ways to achieve the same goal. Automation provides the best roi when you can apply it to highvolume processes that span multiple systems and parts of the business. Hi, i have exported a dbf data into an excel worksheet using ole automation, but i do not know how to draw borders for certain cells. This section covers the various formatting options in a cell or a range. Go beyond basic macros with spreadsheet automation helpsystems. Thalacker, pamela, advisor answers column, foxpro advisor, april 2003. Check hentzewerke for a book by tamar granor and della martin about office automation. Microsoft office automation with visual foxpro,2000, isbn 0965509303, ean 0965509303, by granor t. In vfp, setting the borderwidth property to anything greater than 1 implies a singleline border.
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