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6/10/2006 12:35 AM
 
Bruce Tilton

Joined: 5/22/2006
Posts: 5

I am new to DNN and do not have very much experience building web sites. I need to build several pages in my site that contain a lot of numbers in a grid format. I also need to update the numbers once a month. I have already built spreadsheeets in Excel that mock up what I want to have on my apges.

Eventually, I want to get SQL tables built and store all the data in the tables, pushing the data in the tables on a weekly basis and displayign via some type of grid module. But rather than build all of that right now I would like to get somethign up and running quickly. I was considering saving the Excel files as HTML and then pasting the HTML into the Text/HTML box. I've tested this out and it seems to work OK but I am sure there are lots of issues I am unaware of. I have read in several places where the pasting of Word html into the editor is a bad idea, so that is probably true of Excel files also. My question is what is the downside of doing this? Poor performacne? Will it break in some browsers? What else do I need to look out for?

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6/10/2006 8:22 PM
 
john salmon

Joined: 4/22/2003
Posts: 175

a product call 'excel everwhere' will produce a workable aspx,html or asp of any excel worksheet or set of worksheets - it also provides events where you can capture the data before during or after the entry/calaculations. You can use the aspx in an Iframe module or you can mod the aspx to a DNN PA. Excel everywhere is also good at building online forms and data entry forms.

If the data  is fairly static in nature then create it in excel and produce a csv file then import it into the SQL database. I do this with one client that has a very specialised on line catalog system - I produced a PA to read and display the sql data using the MYGeneration system. I simply did a search on Google for an export/import to SQL library and did some quick mods to fit my data layout.

If you use the Internet Assistant Wizard for Microsoft Excel to create the tables in HTML format then there is not that much overhead in the generated html - use it within an Iframe or cut and paste directly to text/html module if you cut and paste then cut between the body tags.
 
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6/11/2006 2:31 PM
 
Bruce Tilton

Joined: 5/22/2006
Posts: 5
Thanks for the good info. The ExcelEverywhere tool is pretty cool but probably more than I need. I will stick with the 'save as HTML' strategy and pasting the HTML file into a Text Box once a week for now.
 
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