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sofficeintegration with excel viewer

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Hello everyone,

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, ...).

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

sofficeintegration108: ''No programm available for processing document'

Is there a way to make this work without installing an excel version? Do I have any alternatives?

Thanks.

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Sandra_Rossi
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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.

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).

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Sandra_Rossi
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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.

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).