Xlsxwriter not working in ignition 8

[ndani]

Hello All,
I have scheduled reports , that goes out on clients ftps server in .xlsx format. I was using .xlsxlibrary to convert .csv to .xlsx. (ignition 7.9)
But same script is not working in ignition 8.1. Can anybody share steps about how to make this work.
I saw one post about Apache POI, but not much familiar with it.
Any help will be much appreciated.

[JordanCClark]

This thread has scripts going to and from datasets. Shouldn't take much rework to do csv.

Copying a Excel file to a tables Dataset

The Apache POI libraries are included with Ignition. At the time I was only needing to read files, so xlrd was all that was necessary. I'm just starting to dig into POI, myself, but here's a start: EDIT 2021-08-23: Updated to allow JsonDataSets. Changed to allow for a ByteArray output instead of writing to a file. EDIT 2023-01-20: Added option for date formats. Default is 'yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss'. EDIT 2023-05-12: Added options for first row and column, if needed to offset from A1 def datasetT…

[ndani]

Hello Jordan. Thank you so much for the reply. I tested his and it created the file with the name i wanted in .xlsx format.
But instead of the sample dataset how can i use report dataset which i have in .csv format?

Nachi

[JordanCClark]

There are quite a few examples of how to convert a csv file to a dataset. Here's one of them.

Convert CSV to Dataset

This code will convert a CSV file to a Ignition Dataset. def readCsvAsDataSet(path): from java.io import BufferedReader,FileReader,File from system.dataset import toDataSet br = BufferedReader(FileReader(path)) line = br.readLine() headers = line.split(',') line = br.readLine() data = [] while line != None: data.append(line.split(',')) line = br.readLine() return toDataSet(headers,data) To use it, you would do something like path = system.file.saveFile(".csv") dataset = app.f…