M
mflanegan
Guest
Hi Edsel The scenario is as follows.. Users of our mobile application want the following…. They sit with excel spread sheets with data that needs to be loaded via the mobile app. They are requesting a copy paste facility where they can copy the data out of the spread sheet (on the tablet) and then paste it into a maintenance/capture screen and the mobile application should then process the records pasted… E.g.: they have a spread sheet with customer orders…. 100 orders per customer. They want to be able to copy the 100 orders from the spread sheet and paste it into the customer orders maintenance screen on the mobile app and this screen should allow the processing of these orders all at once. There are a few ways to go about doing this: 1) Copy and paste 2) Import wizard that accepts the file and extracts the information from the spread sheet and then displays the information in a grid before processing. The user will then click save to process. I think option 2 here is the more accepted practise! However this seems to be a very big challenge. Could you please comment on each of the following options on how to go about achieving this. Thanks Meyrick Meyrick Flanegan Developer - Managed Services Email: mflanegan@elcb.co.za ELCB Information Services (Pty) Ltd Customer Service Email elcb@elcb.co.za · www.elcb.co.za E A S T L O N D O N Tel: +27(43) 704 0700 Fax: +27(43) 704 0701 J O H A N N E S B U R G Tel: +27(11) 879 6179 Fax: +27(11) 454 0384 P O R T E L I Z A B E T H Tel: +27(41) 373 0529 Fax: +27(86) 650 0135 Disclaimer From: egarcia [mailto:bounce-egarcia@community.progress.com] Sent: 13 March 2015 04:10 PM To: TU.Mobile@community.progress.com Subject: RE: [Technical Users - Mobile] Retrieving data from excel RE: Retrieving data from excel Reply by egarcia Hello Meyrick, I see that this is a scenario where you want to upload an XLSX file to server. For a Mobile device, something to keep in mind that iOS does not provide a file system that you can browse for files. Also, each app runs in a sandbox. Perhaps, you could do this on Android using a PhoneGap plugin. Still, the workflow of an app on a Mobile device would not be the same as on a Desktop computer. Could you provide more information on what is the use case that your are trying to solve? How does the XLSX file get to the Mobile device? Thanks. Stop receiving emails on this subject. Flag this post as spam/abuse.
Continue reading...
Continue reading...