integrating Excel with omnis

Hi Doug,

Thanks for sharing this great add-on. I put this on my to-do list in the
new year!

Cheers,

Andrew

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Doug Easterbrook <doug@artsman.com> wrote:

> oops minor change to a link in the email below. This is correct
>
> www2.artsman.com/Omnis/Software/Omnis-XL3.72AndDemo.zip
>
> Doug Easterbrook
> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
> mailto:doug@artsman.com
> www.artsman.com
> Phone (403) 650-1978
>
>
>
>
> see you at the third annual users conference
> tickets.proctors.org/TheatreManager/95/online?performance=29086 < > tickets.proctors.org/TheatreManager/95/online?performance=29086>
>
> > On Dec 14, 2017, at 7:19 AM, Doug Easterbrook <doug@artsman.com> wrote:
> >
> > hi all:
> >
> >
> > every once in a while I get asked about exporting to excel from omnis.
> So I thought I’d put together a quick note that can live in the
> archives for a few reasons:
> > 1) in case people wanted to know ‘can omnis export to excel’ — the
> answer is yes. its very easy – we’ve been doing it for 7 years
> > 2) to make it easier to find the info.
> > 3) to prompt people into thinking about omnis and open source
> contributions for these kinds of things.
> >
> > re Open source and why to contribute????
> >
> > Other languages have a vibrant open source community – for some of the
> smaller things that lots of apps can use. In the example of the Excel
> Library, we have 2 contributors, Mark Woods (64 bit windows 6.1) and Kelly
> Burgess (64 bit studio 8.1 mac and windows) Many thanks to both of them
> — yet contributing is not quite as entrenched in our omnis world as it is
> in other languages – mostly because (I think) the process of contributing
> to a git repository is kind of a foreign concept.
> >
> >
> >
> > Where is the Excel Xcomp repository????
> >
> > you can get the entire source of the xcomp from
> github.com/artsman <github.com/artsman> if you want to do
> anythig with it. it does’t have mark or kelly’s contributions since
> neither we nor they have had time to push up the changes to the github
> repository. But at least the comunity knows where the source is if it
> needs to go forward.
> >
> >
> >
> > Meantime: where are samples????
> >
> >
> > We have a download a sample library and all externals at
> www2.artsman.com/Software/Omnis/Omnis-XL3.72AndDemo.zip < > www2.artsman.com/Software/Omnis/Omnis-XL3.72AndDemo.zip>
> Ideally, this would be on git hub. But I too…. need to get myself
> accustomed to doing this as well. For now, the above library will have:
> >
> >
> > – 32 bit Studio 5 version against libxl 2.2
> > – 64 bit windows studio 6.1 compiled by Mark Wood compiled against libxl
> 2.3 (I think)
> > – 64 bit mac/windows studio 8.1 compiled by Kelly Burgess against libxl
> 3.72
> >
> >
> >
> > what is the Excel xComp based on?
> >
> > the base excel library comes from www.libxl.com/home.html < > www.libxl.com/home.html> and we put the original xcomp wrapper
> around. Libxl keeps on getting improved and I see it is now version
> libxl 3.8.1. Not to worry for studio 5.2 users. Libxl 2.2 which is part
> of the original comp many years ago does excel .xls and .xlsx format pretty
> reliably.
> >
> >
> >
> > Whats is the Demo and what about licensing?
> >
> > so, what works in the demo – everything to a point. it is limited by
> number or rows until you buy a licence for libxl from
> www.libxl.com/purchase.html <www.libxl.com/purchase.html>
> and its pretty inexpensive ($199 for mac, $199 for windows) and that
> entitles you to unlimited distribution.
> >
> > note: this licence is for the developer of the libxl libraries. They
> are pretty good — and we think he should stay in business to keep on making
> them better.
> >
> > what is free: the xcomp wrapper that we put in place exposes all the
> methods of libxl so you can do pretty much everything that you want in the
> library (bolding sells, saving with calcs, exporting a list directly to
> excel in a couple of lines of omnis code.) thats all in the demo.
> >
> >
> > so, feel free to use the xcomp and the demo of libxl to try it out. if
> you want to use it without restriction, its a very small fee to the
> original libXl developer that I think he deserves.
> >
> >
> >
> > enjoy. and if somebody wants to do a pull request on
> github.com/artsman <github.com/artsman> to update it …
> lets all get involved in making omnis better.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > by the way, what do we use this for in Theatre Manager?
> >
> > every headed list in our application has a context menu that exports the
> data to excel. Customers love that
> >
> > every report – each field on the screen adds a column to and excel
> document as the report is being produced so that the user can export the
> report to excel. They like that too.
> >
> > and we have interfaces with other applications like accounting software
> where excel is the mode of data exchange.
> >
> >
> > all were easy to do with the xcomp.
> >
> >
> >
> > enjoy
> >
> >
> >
> > Doug Easterbrook
> > Arts Management Systems Ltd.
> > mailto:doug@artsman.com
> > www.artsman.com
> > Phone (403) 650-1978
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > see you at the third annual users conference
> > tickets.proctors.org/TheatreManager/95/online?performance=29086
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