In one of our last posts “PDF Export in Salesforce“, we described how to download data in PDF format in Salesforce. Now we will be describing how to download data in excel format as promised in our previous blog. On the same pattern as PDF; contentType=”application/vnd.ms-excel#Export.xls” is the tag used to download the salesforce page in Excel format. In this blog we will discuss the Excel download functionality without redirecting to another page.
We will start by assigning the variable a value in java-script which will be the desired output in excel. The exportDataString is the text/html variable that we are assigning in JavaScript.
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Below is a sample code for the main VF page and its controller –
Next we create an excel_demoexport Page having the same controller as in Main Page that will be returned to the main page to download the data in Excel format.
We need to set the contents of exportDataString in the page Excel_demoexport as in <apex:outputText> tag. Note that we have used the set escape attribute to false as shown below –
Using the above steps, you can optimize the excel export feature for huge data as well.
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