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 applies auto-filter to Excel data
Execute the following ColdFusion code that exports data with autofilter to Excel.
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Tutorial 20
This tutorial shows how to create an Excel file in ColdFusion
and apply an auto-filter to a range of cells.
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--><!-- Constants Classes --><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.Constants.DataType"name="DataType"action="CREATE">
Tutorial 20<br>
----------<br><!-- Create an instance of the class that exports Excel --><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.ExcelDocument"name="workbook"action="CREATE"><!-- Create two worksheets --><cfset ret = workbook.easy_addWorksheet("Sheet1")><!-- Get the table of data for the worksheet --><cfset xlsTab = workbook.easy_getSheet("Sheet1")><cfset xlsTable = xlsTab.easy_getExcelTable()><!-- Add data in cells for report header --><cfloop from="0"to="4"index="column"><cfset xlsTable.easy_getCell(0, evaluate(column)).setValue("Column " & evaluate(column + 1))><cfset xlsTable.easy_getCell(0, evaluate(column)).setDataType(DataType.STRING)></cfloop><!-- Add data in cells for report values --><cfloop from="0"to="99"index="row"><cfloop from="0"to="4"index="column"><cfset xlsTable.easy_getCell(evaluate(row + 1), evaluate(column)).setValue(
"Data " & evaluate(row + 1) & ", " & evaluate(column + 1))><cfset xlsTable.easy_getCell(evaluate(row + 1), evaluate(column)).setDataType(DataType.STRING)></cfloop></cfloop><!-- Apply auto-filter on cell range A1:E1 --><cfset xlsFilter = xlsTab.easy_getFilter()><cfset xlsFilter.setAutoFilter("A1:E1")><!-- Export Excel file -->
Writing file C:\Samples\Tutorial20 - autofilter in Excel sheet.xlsx<br><cfset ret = workbook.easy_WriteXLSXFile("C:\Samples\Tutorial20 - autofilter in Excel sheet.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()>
