Hi Developers & Designers<p>I am a Rubist and now working on one report system, and decided to using excel(and template) to build the report, I chose the excel template because of two:<p>1. let the end user design the report by excel
2. let end user print the report in excel<p>but the problem is that it is hard to deal with the report with huge data, and now I want to choose raw HTML, the long report can be easy handled by adding pagination. And do you know any clean HTML report available on www?<p>Thanks!
You need to do both. dump the report to a page in html with pagination and have an export to excel button. For file export do it as tab delimited with a .xls extension.
What specifically is the problem? Are you likely to have more than 65K rows?<p>If not, Python's xlwt and xlrd modules handle support for native Excel in a very simple, OO, pythonic way, without any scary Windows or COM shit. I regularly generate and parse pretty big Excel files most days so I'd be happy to answer any questions.
If you render the report as an HTML document and serve it with a mime-type of application/vnd.ms-excel
the users system will prompt them open it in excel.<p>Excel will parse it with all of the nice formatting and everything!
For reports (people like to print them), I normally use<p>(a) pdf
(b) HTML<p>In that order!<p>If anyone needs excel I give them comma delimited for import!