Re: Date formats in XML for Excel Spreadsheet download?

Just an FYI - the "feature" in Windows that is sending the message is called Extension Hardening - and there's a way to turn it off that requires a registry change, according to a couple sites I found with Google.

The XML extension is the thing to do, although it will likely be odd-looking to end users. It seems Windows reads the first couple lines, to see if the XML is actually for Excel - those tags that Vicki mentioned. Other XML that doesn't have those tags are opened with the so-called XML Editor (actually IE so far as I can tell - no editing that I've been able to do).

Vern

On 3/13/2015 7:15 AM, Jonathan Mason wrote:

Hi Vicki

If you're generating the file in XML (SpreadsheetML) then set the file extension to *.xml. As long as you define the relationship within Windows Explorer for xml files to be opened by MS Excel you won't have a problem opening them (assuming that the XML structure is valid).

Thanks for the tip about the "Short Date" format, I'll add that in to my service program as an option.

You may find the resources at https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb226687%28v=office.11%29.aspx useful.

All the best
Jonathan


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date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 22:36:12 +0000
from: Vicki Wilson <VWilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Date formats in XML for Excel Spreadsheet download?
(Vernon Hamberg) (Jonathan Mason)

Vern, Jonathan & all,

Thanks for the helpful replies. I have a solution but I have one more question. When I go to open the file saved as .xls I get the following pop-up in excel "The file you are trying to open, 'xxx.xls', is in a different format than specified by the file extension. Is there anything I can change in the xml header to prevent this? The users actually want to be able to pass this information off without any fussing. I'm running MO 2010.

Vern to address some of your questions. I am creating this via websmart which I think would be fairly close to CGIDEV2. " Are you talking about the 2003 Spreadsheet XML format for Excel?" Is there a difference? I see about 4 references to excel in the header.
<?mso-application progid="Excel.Sheet"?>
xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
<ExcelWorkbook xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel">

Jonathan - I thought I was going to have to build a full time stamp - but the following works:
<Style ss:ID="s21">
<NumberFormat ss:Format="Short Date"/>
</Style>

<Cell ss:StyleID="s21"><Data ss:Type="DateTime">2013-09-12</Data></Cell>

I appreciate your response because I drove in this morning thinking I needed to build the full timestamp. I still might have to - I will let the users take a whack at it.

Thanks again for the reponses. I was kind of surprised that I had never done one of these before and we didn't have any examples in the shop.
Vicki



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