Server side Microsoft Office components.

[CoffeeMug]

I am interested in generatic dynamic reports and serve them as Microsoft Word and/or Excel files. Are Microsoft Office components available for automation on the server? If not, are there any plans for this feature or any chances it will make it into your future packages?

Thanks.

[bruce]

Office Web Component is not installed.

It is not installed because of licensing complication (to install OWC, it is required that we have a MS Office license). We are trying to clear this mess up with MSFT, but it will take sometime.

SOrry.


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I am interested in generatic dynamic reports and serve them as Microsoft Word and/or Excel files. Are Microsoft Office components available for automation on the server? If not, are there any plans for this feature or any chances it will make it into your future packages?

Thanks.
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[bruce]

The news is a bad news. We cannot offer OWA until MS change its licensing scheme on this product. Why?

1) We need to install one of the office application on the server

2) all client accessing the application with owa needs to have office license.

Unless we ignore the license, there's just no way to install this on an internet server. I know some companies out there are doing this but they definitely violated MSFT's license.

Review this article for more information

http://www.microsoft.com/office/developer/platform/owcfaq.asp

Pay special attention to this question

I am building an Internet application. Can I use the Office Web Components on the server?



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Any news on this Bruce?
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[Timbo]

Any news on this Bruce?

[Timbo]

I'd heard that this is the way OWC works but I couldn't believe it. what a nightmare!!

OWC is a handy component but I'm having similar issues making pages for my intranet. I work in a callcentre company and we found we needed a licence for every one of the 1500 telephonists if we wanted to make graphs available to them

Oh well, thanks for the quick response. Do you know of any similar tools I could use for graphing?