OpenXML teaser

If you want to be able to create an Excel document from a batch job or on a machine where Excel is not installed, you can use the Open XML standard to create the file without ever opening the Excel application.

You would of course need some X++ wrappers, but I have learned today that these are actually already created for some Russian localizations.

Check this out:

static void OpenXML_Excel_Demo(Args _args)
{
    Counter                 c;
    XMLExcelDocument_RU     excelDocument;
    str                     templateFilename = @'F:\SomeTemplate.xlsx';
    str                     newFilename = @'F:\OpenXML_Excel_Demo.xlsx'; 

    // Create a new document
    // This implementation works with template files, so I have just created an empty spreadsheet to act
    // as template
    excelDocument = XMLExcelDocument_RU::newFromFile(templateFilename, newFilename);

    // Create some column headers
    for (c = 1; c != 10; c++)
    {
        excelDocument.insertValue(
            ComExcelDocument_RU::numToNameCell(c, 1), 
            strFmt("Column %1", c));
    }

    // Close and save the document
    excelDocument.closeDocument(true);
}

Use the cross reference tool to see more usage of this in AX.