Generate Custom Excel file with dynamic columns
Hi Community
we need to generate a custom excel file but excel reports will not be enough.
Our case, we have a "Article" object, that has a "Category",
and depending on the "Category", this article has certain "ArticleRequirements".
We need to generate and excel file that will have a column header per each "ArticleRequirements"
The "ArticleRequirements" also have a classification A,B and C and ideally I need to separate them into 3 different sheets.
This means that the excel for each article can have a different number of columns.
Ex Excel for Product A:
Excel for product B:
anyone had a similar case? and any suggestions on how to approach this challenge?
Some libraries that can be used by Creatio to achieve this?
Thanks
Luis
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I did something like this and used the same thing that is used for exporting a list to Excel. Basically, when you export a list to Excel, it takes the ESQ from the list as one big serialized string and then sends it to the ReportService/GetExportToExcelKey service and then it gives back the Excel file. What my custom solution did was to just form my own ESQ string at runtime using the columns I wanted in the Excel file (which varied based on other conditions) and then pass it off to ReportService/GetExportToExcelKey, just as if I was exporting a list.
For this type of thing to work, the user does need the operation permission for exporting a list to Excel (since it thinks that is what you're doing) and also the data in the Excel file does need to be based off of an actual object (meaning not just some random database query) - essentially, as if the data you wanted were bound to a list (even though it's not)
Ryan