To download the trial version of EasyXLS Excel Library, press the below button:
If you already own a license key, you may login and download EasyXLS from your account.
Install the downloaded EasyXLS installer for v8.6 or earlier.
Step 2: License file setup
Step required for EasyXLS v9.0 or later.
If you are using a trial, generate a trial license file from EasyXLS trials page. The trial license is valid for 30-days.
If you own a license key, you may login to the account that purchased the license and generate the license file from: https://www.easyxls.com/my-orders
Setup the license file into your project using these guidelines.
Step 3: Add EasyXLS library to CLASSPATH in ColdFusion Administator
EasyXLS.jar must be included to class path for Java runtime environment.
EasyXLS.jar can be found: - Inside the downloaded archive at Step 1 for EasyXLS v9.0 or later - Under installation path for EasyXLS v8.6 or earlier, in "Lib" folder.
Another solution is to add EasyXLS.jar to "lib" folder from ColdFusion installation path.
Step 4: Run ColdFusion code that adds formula to Excel cell
Execute the following ColdFusion code that exports an Excel file with formulas.
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Tutorial 11
This tutorial shows how to create an Excel file in ColdFusion that
has a cell that contains SUM formula for a range of cells.
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Tutorial 11<br>
----------<br><!-- Create an instance of the class that exports Excel files --><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.ExcelDocument"name="workbook"action="CREATE"><!-- Add a worksheet --><cfset ret = workbook.easy_addWorksheet("Formula")><!-- Get the table of data for the sheet, add data in sheet and the formula --><cfset xlsTable = workbook.easy_getSheet("Formula").easy_getExcelTable()><cfset xlsTable.easy_getCell("A1").setValue("1")><cfset xlsTable.easy_getCell("A2").setValue("2")><cfset xlsTable.easy_getCell("A3").setValue("3")><cfset xlsTable.easy_getCell("A4").setValue("4")><cfset xlsTable.easy_getCell("A6").setValue("=SUM(A1:A4)")><!-- Export Excel file -->
Writing file C:\Samples\Tutorial11 - formulas in Excel.xlsx<br><cfset ret = workbook.easy_WriteXLSXFile("C:\Samples\Tutorial11 - formulas in Excel.xlsx")><!-- Confirm export of Excel file --><cfset sError = workbook.easy_getError()><cfif (sError is "")><cfoutput>
File successfully created.
</cfoutput><cfelse><cfoutput>
Error encountered: #sError#
</cfoutput></cfif><!-- Dispose memory --><cfset workbook.Dispose()>
