ExcelBanter - Interactive web page

The spreadsheet is embedded as an object:

<OBJECT id="excel2" classid="clsid:0002E559-0000-0000-C000-000000000046"
VIEWASTEXT
<PARAM NAME="DataType" VALUE="XMLDATA"
<PARAM NAME="XMLData" VALUE='<?xml version="1.0"?
<ss:Workbook xmlns:x="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:excel"
xmlns:ss="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
xmlns:c="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:component:spreadsheet"
<x:ExcelWorkbook
<x:ProtectStructureFalse</x:ProtectStructure
<x:ActiveSheet0</x:ActiveSheet
</x:ExcelWorkbook
<ss:Styles
<ss:Style ss:ID="Default"
<ss:Alignment ss:Horizontal="Automatic" ss:Rotate="0.0"
ss:Vertical="Bottom"
ss:ReadingOrder="Context"/
<ss:Borders
</ss:Borders
<ss:Font ss:FontName="Arial" ss:Size="10" ss:Color="Automatic" ss:Bold="0"
ss:Italic="0" ss:Underline="None"/
<ss:Interior ss:Color="Automatic" ss:Pattern="None"/
<ss:NumberFormat ss:Format="General"/
<ss:Protection ss:Protected="1"/
</ss:Style
</ss:Styles
<c:ComponentOptions
<c:Label
<c:CaptionMicrosoft Office Spreadsheet</c:Caption
</c:Label
<c:MaxHeight80%</c:MaxHeight
<c:MaxWidth80%</c:MaxWidth
<c:NextSheetNumber4</c:NextSheetNumber
</c:ComponentOptions
<x:WorkbookOptions
<c:OWCVersion11.0.0.6255 </c:OWCVersion
<x:Height7620</x:Height
<x:Width15240</x:Width
</x:WorkbookOptions
<ss:Worksheet ss:Name="Sheet1"
<x:WorksheetOptions
<x:Selected/
<x:ViewableRangeR1:R262144</x:ViewableRange
<x:SelectionR1C1</x:Selection
<x:TopRowVisible0</x:TopRowVisible
<x:LeftColumnVisible0</x:LeftColumnVisible
<x:ProtectContentsFalse</x:ProtectContents
</x:WorksheetOptions
<c:WorksheetOptions
</c:WorksheetOptions
</ss:Worksheet
<ss:Worksheet ss:Name="Sheet2"
<x:WorksheetOptions
<x:ViewableRangeR1:R262144</x:ViewableRange
<x:SelectionR1C1</x:Selection
<x:TopRowVisible0</x:TopRowVisible
<x:LeftColumnVisible0</x:LeftColumnVisible
<x:ProtectContentsFalse</x:ProtectContents
</x:WorksheetOptions
<c:WorksheetOptions
</c:WorksheetOptions
</ss:Worksheet
<ss:Worksheet ss:Name="Sheet3"
<x:WorksheetOptions
<x:ViewableRangeR1:R262144</x:ViewableRange
<x:SelectionR1C1</x:Selection
<x:TopRowVisible0</x:TopRowVisible
<x:LeftColumnVisible0</x:LeftColumnVisible
<x:ProtectContentsFalse</x:ProtectContents
</x:WorksheetOptions
<c:WorksheetOptions
</c:WorksheetOptions
</ss:Worksheet
</ss:Workbook
'
<PARAM NAME="AllowPropertyToolbox" VALUE="-1"
<PARAM NAME="AutoFit" VALUE="0"
<PARAM NAME="Calculation" VALUE="-4105"
<PARAM NAME="Caption" VALUE="Microsoft Office Spreadsheet"
<PARAM NAME="DisplayColumnHeadings" VALUE="-1"
<PARAM NAME="DisplayGridlines" VALUE="-1"
<PARAM NAME="DisplayHorizontalScrollBar" VALUE="-1"
<PARAM NAME="DisplayOfficeLogo" VALUE="-1"
<PARAM NAME="DisplayPropertyToolbox" VALUE="0"
<PARAM NAME="DisplayRowHeadings" VALUE="-1"
<PARAM NAME="DisplayTitleBar" VALUE="0"
<PARAM NAME="DisplayToolbar" VALUE="-1"
<PARAM NAME="DisplayVerticalScrollBar" VALUE="-1"
<PARAM NAME="DisplayWorkbookTabs" VALUE="-1"
<PARAM NAME="EnableEvents" VALUE="-1"
<PARAM NAME="MaxHeight" VALUE="80%"
<PARAM NAME="MaxWidth" VALUE="80%"
<PARAM NAME="MoveAfterReturn" VALUE="-1"
<PARAM NAME="MoveAfterReturnDirection" VALUE="-4121"
<PARAM NAME="RightToLeft" VALUE="0"
<PARAM NAME="ScreenUpdating" VALUE="-1"
<PARAM NAME="LockedDown" VALUE="0"
<PARAM NAME="ConnectedToChart" VALUE="0"
<PARAM NAME="DefaultQueryOnLoad" VALUE="-1"
<PARAM NAME="EnableUndo" VALUE="-1"
</OBJECT

I just created a test script to pull the first value. And a button that
calls the function.
<script

function get_a1() {
alert ('the value of cell A1 is: ' + excel2.range('a1').value);
return false;
}

</script

THANKS! :)
Kris

"vbMental" wrote:

Hi, we might be able to assist each other. I can help you with the .NET part
but how do you have it embedded into the page. Can you paste the html and
javascript code?

"Kris Bethea" wrote:

Hello!
I've been searching the web for nearly a week now trying to figure out how
to read the information a user can enter into an interactive web excel
spreadsheet.

More precisely, I need for a user to enter an unlimited amount of numbers
and I need to be able to read the numbers and enter them into a database (SQL
Server). To protect from user errors, my team thought it might be a good idea
to provide the Excel Spreadsheet in a web page and users can just paste the
information directly into it, and then click a button to upload the
information to our database.

I have found that Javascript can read the variables entered into the Excel
Spreadsheet, but I cannot find how to code directly into the VB.NET (2003)
environment. I would prefer NOT to use Javascript if possible.

If someone could point me in the right direction so that I can find
information that is already available on the web, or if someone could share
an example of how to do this, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Kris