On 02/08/2013 10:23 AM, Daniel Barrett wrote:
O_O $10000 excel-to-html? O_OOO
Why not just copy-paste into for example wikEd (google://wikEd)? :-))) Not that beautiful, but it works.
Now, I will demonstrate what I mean by "Corporate needs are different." :-)
With our extension, the Excel spreadsheet is rendered "live" in the wiki page. So if somebody updates the spreadsheet (on a network drive), the wiki page is automatically and instantly up to date! This is totally different from a one-time copy-and-paste, and much more maintainable. (And it's pretty fast too, with AJAX and good caching.)
Even better, if your spreadsheet generates a graph or chart, the image gets embedded in the wiki page too, and is automatically kept up to date. And if your spreadsheet calls out to a database for its data, to generate the chart, then the wiki is updated when the database changes too! Suddenly, MediaWiki has all the charting capability of Excel + SQL. This is very powerful and definitely worth $10K for a highly analytical company like ours.
We've had this feature for about 2 months, and so far we have 350+ articles with embedded spreadsheets, updated "live."
As an aside, you could almost certainly do this cheaper with WorkingWiki. If you can write a make rule to retrieve the Excel file from the network drive and make it into html and image files (and maybe a little wikitext to format the page), you're done.
LW