Help with: Prefill cells with command line switches from a browser

[DaiLafing]

Hi everyone, I've been coming here a while now, and I can see my question has been partly answered.


I'm looking to have an excell file shared on a windows network to a simple LAN (samba sharing), and then for a user to be able to click on a HTML link that will launch that excell pile, and to have it populate specific and predeterminined cells with information that will be handed to it by the HTML link from the website.


Think of a CRM web app that href is a link like: "\\LAN1\Files\excellbook01.xls?Mrs%20Wendy%20Jones?4%20Skin%20Street"


From something like that I would like to launch excell and have Mrs Jones' details populate into the predefined excell sheet. The HTML website can dynamically populate a HTML link depending on the customer being viewed.


So I'd like to know how two things
1) how to launch a network file in this way, while correctly handing it parameters or switched that it will be able to later:
2) Collect that information and distribute it into the cells I choose in VBA.


I'm familiar with Visual Basic .Net primarily, and have a small amount of VBA experience.


We would like to continue to use Google chrome if possible...


Thanks everyone

 

[DaiLafing]

Bump - was hoping this would be easy for a forum like this to answer?

 

[Kyle123]

You can't really. The only way would be to use Internet Explorer and it would only work in Internet explorer and create an instance of Excel and then populate the cells using an ActiveX object.

 

[DaiLafing]

You can't really. The only way would be to use Internet Explorer and it would only work in Internet explorer and create an instance of Excel and then populate the cells using an ActiveX object.

Happy to switch to ie, but your post does not answer my question at all....

i dont know know what you mean about creating an instance, and no idea how to work with activeX objects?

im looking for much more that what you have provided here thanks





C.C.
http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-...fill-cells-command-line-switches-browser.html


http://www.ozgrid.com/forum/showthread.php?t=185735&p=699938#post699938


http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/sho...e-switches-from-a-browser&p=304027#post304027

 

[Kyle123]

What knowledge do you have of browser client side scripting? This is going to be difficult unless you have an understanding of Javascript. A better solution would be to request the workbook form the server and do the modifications server side. Is that an option?

This isn't really an excel issue, it's a webdev issue