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 cell validation to Excel sheet
Execute the following ColdFusion code that exports an Excel file with two types of data validation defined: list and whole number.
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Tutorial 13
This tutorial shows how to create an Excel file in ColdFusion having
multiple sheets. The second sheet contains a named area range.
The A1:A10 cell range contains data validators, drop down list
and whole number validation.
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--><!-- Constants Classes --><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.Constants.DataValidator"name="DataValidator"action="CREATE">
Tutorial 13<br>
----------<br><!-- Create an instance of the class that exports Excel files --><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.ExcelDocument"name="workbook"action="CREATE"><!-- Create two worksheets --><cfset ret = workbook.easy_addWorksheet("First tab")><cfset ret = workbook.easy_addWorksheet("Second tab")><!-- Get the table of data for the second worksheet and populate the worksheet --><cfset xlsSecondTab = workbook.easy_getSheetAt(1)><cfset xlsSecondTable = xlsSecondTab.easy_getExcelTable()><cfset xlsSecondTable.easy_getCell("A1").setValue("Range data 1")><cfset xlsSecondTable.easy_getCell("A2").setValue("Range data 2")><cfset xlsSecondTable.easy_getCell("A3").setValue("Range data 3")><cfset xlsSecondTable.easy_getCell("A4").setValue("Range data 4")><!-- Create a named area range --><cfset xlsSecondTab.easy_addName("Range", "=Second tab!$A$1:$A$4")><!-- Add data validation as drop down list type --><cfset xlsFirstTab = workbook.easy_getSheetAt(0)><cfset xlsFirstTab.easy_addDataValidator("A1:A10", DataValidator.VALIDATE_LIST,
DataValidator.OPERATOR_EQUAL_TO, "=Range", "")><!-- Add data validation as whole number type --><cfset xlsFirstTab.easy_addDataValidator("B1:B10", DataValidator.VALIDATE_WHOLE_NUMBER,
DataValidator.OPERATOR_BETWEEN, "=4", "=100")><!-- Export Excel file -->
Writing file C:\Samples\Tutorial13 - cell validation in Excel.xlsx<br><cfset ret = workbook.easy_WriteXLSXFile("C:\Samples\Tutorial13 - cell validation 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()>
