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Exporting a Query to a TAB

May 18th, 2006
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For some reports, I’ve needed to export a query into a Tab Delimited file to be opened by Excel on the users machine. I developed the following to do this, you’re free to use it for anything you like. I wrote it back in my CF5 days and never looked back, so comments on improving are welcome.

QueryToTab.cfm

You can then use this to dump the file to the users browser like so:

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<CFCONTENT TYPE="application/msexcel"><cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="filename=user_report.xls"><CFOUTPUT>#QueryExport(qryMyQueryData)#<cfabort></cfoutput>

If you enjoyed this article or it helped you in any way, I’d appreciate it if you’d post a comment below to let me know. All code examples are for demonstration only and should be used at your own risk. I cannot accept liability for unexpected results.

Chris ColdFusion ColdFusion

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