Hi,
I'm using the Excel.Applications object in VBS, and everything is working perfectly. But I discovered that the server we will put the script on doesn't have Excel, and we're not allowed to install it there.
Although the script builds an Excel spreadsheet from scratch, we don't actually need that full functionality. We can use an existing spreadsheet with only the field headings and the columns already formatted, and set to Freeze top row, greenbar conditional highlighting, etc.
So we would just need the function of appending to that existing spreadsheet. We can easily do any sorting & filtering of the data prior to importing.
There are Excel generation libraries out there, but all of the demos that use them are in .Net, usually C#. There don't seem to be any VBScript or VBA samples of using an Excel library that doesn't require Excel.
My question is, how can we append data to an existing Excel Spreadsheet, via VBScript, without Office installed?
Regarding the data itself, it's in Tab-Delimited format, but we can transform that programmatically to CSV or Sqlite or any other format prior to appending to Excel.
I'm using the Excel.Applications object in VBS, and everything is working perfectly. But I discovered that the server we will put the script on doesn't have Excel, and we're not allowed to install it there.
Although the script builds an Excel spreadsheet from scratch, we don't actually need that full functionality. We can use an existing spreadsheet with only the field headings and the columns already formatted, and set to Freeze top row, greenbar conditional highlighting, etc.
So we would just need the function of appending to that existing spreadsheet. We can easily do any sorting & filtering of the data prior to importing.
There are Excel generation libraries out there, but all of the demos that use them are in .Net, usually C#. There don't seem to be any VBScript or VBA samples of using an Excel library that doesn't require Excel.
My question is, how can we append data to an existing Excel Spreadsheet, via VBScript, without Office installed?
Regarding the data itself, it's in Tab-Delimited format, but we can transform that programmatically to CSV or Sqlite or any other format prior to appending to Excel.