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RakeshKumar1
New Contributor
4 years ago

Does Snaplogic support writing Grid format headers for Excel Binary Spreadsheet(.xslb files)?

Hello Team,

I have requirement of writing excel binary spreadsheet .xslb extension type.

Used Excel formatter snap followed by file writer and able to write the .xslb file ,
But how do i apply Grid format for Excel table headers for filters on each column ?

Is there any way in Snaplogic to write .xslb files with grid on table columns(the drop down list in screenshot for headers) , Please suggest ?

Example of grid Excel file is attached, where we can do filtertation, sort etc on each column.

Thanks,
Rakesh

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  • RakeshKumar1's avatar
    RakeshKumar1
    New Contributor
    4 years ago

    Correction - The extension type of file is .xlsb (not .xslb) which i am trying to write, Please suggest if .xlsb extension is supported by Excel formatter and file writer snaps or any other workaround.

    Thanks!

  • RakeshKumar1's avatar
    RakeshKumar1
    New Contributor
    4 years ago

    Hello Team,
    Please let me know if this possible ?
    With xlsx the file size is becoming big which will block us from sending mail as attachment so want to make it .xlsb.
    File is getting corrupted if i am using file extension xlsb.

    Thanks!

    • robin's avatar
      robin
      Former Employee
      4 years ago

      @RakeshKumar1

      Example of grid Excel file is attached, where we can do filtertation, sort etc on each column.

      Do you have that example? I didn’t see an attachment

  • RakeshKumar1's avatar
    RakeshKumar1
    New Contributor
    4 years ago

    Hi Robin,
    Hope you are doing great! Attached is the pipe slp.

    The contettype of excel formatter in pipe says “application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet”, which is content type for xlsx.

    .xlsb contenttype will be “application/vnd.ms-excel.sheet.binary.macroEnabled.12”.
    I don’t find any option to define mimetype in formater snap so i used the extension in file writer directly as Test.xlsb. I can see file in sldb but on downloading it is converting it to .xlsx
    xlsbTest_2022_02_14.slp (9.4 KB)
    TestXLSBIn.xlsx (10.2 KB)

    With File Reader snap followed by excel parser i tried reading TestXLSBIn.xlsb file but the parser snap failed to parse data. I am unable to attatch .xlsb here but please convert attached xlsx into xlsb as below by save as ‘Excel Binary Book’

    Any help on how do we read or write xlsb.

    Thanks,
    Rakesh

    • robin's avatar
      robin
      Former Employee
      4 years ago

      To be clear, you wish to write an .XLSB file and then be able to read/parse it later within a SnapLogic pipeline? The reason I ask is that when reading about the Binary format for Excel, one of the listed disadvantages I found was

      Disadvantages Of Binary Files

      Binary files cannot not be accessed by programs that understand the XSLX, XLSM file format only.

      Thank you for the sample file. I’ll attempt to reproduce and report back to you on my findings.