topic Re: sofficeintegration with excel viewer in Application Development and Automation Discussions https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/sofficeintegration-with-excel-viewer/m-p/5877320#M1324339 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Desktop Office Integration uses OLE, so it requires the (Excel here) application to be installed. Excel viewer is a very light software, it is not Excel.</P><P></P><P>If you want to generate a "native" excel format file, you may use XLSX format (xml, starting with excel 2007 if I remember well). Otherwise you'll have to generate a simple .csv file (simple text file, without formatting and colors).</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:56:19 GMT Sandra_Rossi 2009-07-23T19:56:19Z sofficeintegration with excel viewer https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/sofficeintegration-with-excel-viewer/m-p/5877319#M1324338 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello everyone,</P><P></P><P>we created a report wich uses the SOFFICEINTEGRATION package, especially interface I_OI_CONTAINER_CONTROL to build an excel sheet from internal table data and then display the sheet in SAP (methods get_container_control, init_control, get_document_proxy, create_document, get_spreadsheet_interface, ...).</P><P></P><P>First we used this report on a server with an excel version installed and everything was working fine. Now we want to use the report on a machine with an installed excel viewer and no 'real' excel resulting in error message</P><P></P><P>sofficeintegration108: ''No programm available for processing document'</P><P></P><P>Is there a way to make this work without installing an excel version? Do I have any alternatives?</P><P></P><P>Thanks.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:59:03 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/sofficeintegration-with-excel-viewer/m-p/5877319#M1324338 Former Member 2009-07-23T15:59:03Z Re: sofficeintegration with excel viewer https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/sofficeintegration-with-excel-viewer/m-p/5877320#M1324339 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Desktop Office Integration uses OLE, so it requires the (Excel here) application to be installed. Excel viewer is a very light software, it is not Excel.</P><P></P><P>If you want to generate a "native" excel format file, you may use XLSX format (xml, starting with excel 2007 if I remember well). Otherwise you'll have to generate a simple .csv file (simple text file, without formatting and colors).</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:56:19 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/sofficeintegration-with-excel-viewer/m-p/5877320#M1324339 Sandra_Rossi 2009-07-23T19:56:19Z