[thelist] CSV file download on the fly with SQL/ASP generated pages - but how?
John C Bullas
jcbullas at nildram.co.uk
Tue Dec 30 07:08:10 CST 2003
At 09:30 30/12/2003, you wrote
>I am trying to create a "download this page as a csv file" facility for
>some of our internal reporting pages. We are pulling the pages from SQL
>with ASP making a table from the information.
>
>Ideally there would be a link on the page which would initiate a download.
>
>I tried erroneously to embed some asp in a csv file, but it would open the
>CSV in an embedded spreadsheet in the browser.
>
>Does anyone have any ideas, or know how I can achieve this?
Useful or too easy?
<a href="target.pdf" OnClick="alert('Download by Right Click Save Target
As - Mac users Control Click and select download link');return false;"><img
src="images/image.gif" alt="Download Page" width="18" height="20"
border="0"></a>
seems to work.....
John
>
>TIA
>
>John Dobson
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