export CF data to Word without prompting for Save

[alarge23]

I currently have a coldfusion page that displays data. I give the user an option to export the data to Word. This works fine but, I would like to be able to schedule this CF program to run every day and email the Word document to my users.

I am looking for a way to export data to Word without being prompted to Save. Is this possible?

 

[TamedTech]

What method are you using to export that data to word? have you got a clever custom tag?

Thanks,

Rob

 

[alarge23]

I use cfcontent/cfheader tags to extract to Word. But I always get the prompt to Open/Save the document.

<cfcontent type="application/msword">
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="attachment;filename=FileExtract.doc">

 

[philhege]

You need a routine that creates the file and saves it to the Web server file system. An automated task won't be able to use CFCONTENT; no browser is involved (and you don't want one involved ;^)).

There are some programs out there like HTML2Word that you may be able to use, or play with the Word COM object.

HTH,



Phil Hegedusich
Senior Programmer/Analyst
IIMAK

http://www.iimak.com

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