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erieru103
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March 12, 2010
Question

plug-in using excel data

  • March 12, 2010
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hi,everybody!

I need to create a plug-in that will use excel data.

But I don't know how to access to excel from the frameMaker plug-in.

Can someone give me any idea?

regard.

erieru103


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    Russ Ward
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    March 12, 2010

    Hi erieru,

    You certainly won't be able to do it with the FDK library. You'll need to move into system calls. What exactly do you mean by "access to excel?" Do you need to operate Excel for something or just read the data?  If I needed to read data only, I think I would just save it as CSV, XML, or something else that I could read more easily.

    You did say "plugin", so I'm assuming the FDK. If you were flexible in the manner of automation, I think that FrameScript has some strong COM abilities which I would think should allow an easier hookup to Excel. I can't speak firsthand on that, though, because I don't use FrameScript.

    Russ

    Van Kurtz
    Van Kurtz
    Inspiring
    March 12, 2010

    In another thread, someone told me that you can import an Excel spreadsheet directly into FrameMaker, which converts it into a Frame table. I tried it in structured document and it worked; it even assigned it's own concept of the element structure. So, my guess is that it should work in unstructured Frame as well.

    Van

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    Lynne A. Price
    Inspiring
    March 12, 2010
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