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 comments to Excel file
Execute the following ColdFusion code that exports an Excel file with comments on cells.
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Tutorial 07
This code sample shows how to export an Excel file in ColdFusion
having multiple sheets. The first sheet is filled with data
and the cells are formatted and locked.
The column header has comments.
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--><!-- Constants Classes --><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.Constants.DataType"name="DataType"action="CREATE"><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.Constants.Border"name="Border"action="CREATE"><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.Constants.Alignment"name="Alignment"action="CREATE"><cfobject type="java"class="java.awt.Color"name="Color"action="CREATE">
Tutorial 07<br>
----------<br><!-- Create an instance of the class that exports Excel files --><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.ExcelDocument"name="workbook"action="CREATE"><!-- Create two sheets --><cfset ret = workbook.easy_addWorksheet("First tab")><cfset ret = workbook.easy_addWorksheet("Second tab")><!-- Protect the first sheet --><cfset workbook.easy_getSheetAt(0).setSheetProtected(true)><!-- Get the table of data for the first worksheet --><cfset xlsFirstTable=workbook.easy_getSheetAt(0).easy_getExcelTable()><!-- Create the formatting style for the header --><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.ExcelStyle"name="xlsStyleHeader"action="CREATE"><cfset xlsStyleHeader.setFont("Verdana")><cfset xlsStyleHeader.setFontSize(8)><cfset xlsStyleHeader.setItalic(true)><cfset xlsStyleHeader.setBold(true)><cfset xlsStyleHeader.setForeground(Color.yellow)><cfset xlsStyleHeader.setBackground(Color.black)><cfset xlsStyleHeader.setBorderColors(Color.gray, Color.gray, Color.gray, Color.gray)><cfset xlsStyleHeader.setBorderStyles(Border.BORDER_MEDIUM, Border.BORDER_MEDIUM,
Border.BORDER_MEDIUM, Border.BORDER_MEDIUM)><cfset xlsStyleHeader.setHorizontalAlignment(Alignment.ALIGNMENT_CENTER)><cfset xlsStyleHeader.setVerticalAlignment(Alignment.ALIGNMENT_BOTTOM)><cfset xlsStyleHeader.setWrap(true)><cfset xlsStyleHeader.setDataType(DataType.STRING)><!-- Add data in cells for report header --><cfloop from="0"to="4"index="column"><cfset xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(0, evaluate(column)).setValue("Column " & evaluate(column + 1))><cfset xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(0, evaluate(column)).setStyle(xlsStyleHeader)><!-- Add comment for report header cells --><cfset xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(0, evaluate(column)).setComment(
"This is column no " & evaluate(column + 1))></cfloop><cfset ret = xlsFirstTable.easy_getRowAt(0).setHeight(30)><!-- Create a formatting style for cells --><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.ExcelStyle"name="xlsStyleData"action="CREATE"><cfset xlsStyleData.setHorizontalAlignment(Alignment.ALIGNMENT_LEFT)><cfset xlsStyleData.setForeground(Color.lightGray)><cfset xlsStyleData.setWrap(false)><!-- Protect cells --><cfset xlsStyleData.setLocked(true)><cfset xlsStyleData.setDataType(DataType.STRING)><!-- Add data in cells for report values --><cfloop from="0"to="99"index="row"><cfloop from="0"to="4"index="column"><cfset xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(evaluate(row + 1), evaluate(column)).setValue(
"Data " & evaluate(row + 1) & ", " & evaluate(column + 1))><cfset xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(evaluate(row + 1), evaluate(column)).setStyle(xlsStyleData)></cfloop></cfloop><!-- Set column widths --><cfset xlsFirstTable.setColumnWidth(0, 70)><cfset xlsFirstTable.setColumnWidth(1, 100)><cfset xlsFirstTable.setColumnWidth(2, 70)><cfset xlsFirstTable.setColumnWidth(3, 100)><cfset xlsFirstTable.setColumnWidth(4, 70)><!-- Export Excel file -->
Writing file C:\Samples\Tutorial07 - cell comment in Excel.xlsx<br><cfset ret = workbook.easy_WriteXLSXFile("C:\Samples\Tutorial07 - cell comment in Excel.xlsx")><!-- Confirm the 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()>
