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 formats Excel file
Execute the following ColdFusion code that formats Excel cells, rows, columns and cell ranges.
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Tutorial 05
This code sample shows how to export data to Excel file in ColdFusion and
format the cells. The Excel file has multiple worksheets.
The first sheet is filled with data and the cells are formatted.
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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 05<br>
----------<br><!-- Create an instance of the class that exports Excel files --><cfobjecttype="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")><!-- 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)></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)><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 the Excel file -->
Writing file C:\Samples\Tutorial05 - format Excel cells.xlsx<br><cfset ret = workbook.easy_WriteXLSXFile("C:\Samples\Tutorial05 - format Excel cells.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()>
