Edit & Save Excel File Online ?!?!

[jayes99]

In our intranet application, the Users view an Excel file online using their browser.
The users should be able to edit and save the excel file online, without downloading the file, make the changes and then upload.

How to edit an excel file and save online?

 

[MarkHenri]

I'm surprised that you didn't start this post with the phrase "this should be easy..."

Bad news, it's not. Excel has no facility for updating itself via a TCP/IP connection. I'm afraid your stuck using ASP or PHP for web data entry.

It's an interesting question though. Actually, I can see some possibilities like code in the spreadsheet that actually loads the data each time from a specialized server and then retransmits the data back on close. I could make it work but it would be easier to implement in ASP. It would only create the illusion that you were updating a spreadsheet.

 

[Corticus]

I think you can use ColdFusion to link to your tables in Excel, which will update them, I could be wrong, but I know it works with Access tables.

Worst case, export data to Access, then link to Access.

Corticus