I am using APACHE POI 3.0 to add sheets to existing excel sheet. It works fine. But as APACHE POI has limitations about making charts, I used a template excel file to create charts, which also worked fine, but this always result in new excel file. If I have an existing excel sheet and I want to add a sheet, having charts, I am not able to do it. As, when I create charts, I use template file and it always makes a new excel file. so I was wondering if there is any solution of it of adding sheets to excel, where the sheets have charts
public class TagBrowserSelection
{
private static String[] excelBarPlot_Template = { "","barPlot_1Panel_template.xlsx"};
private static String[] excelPieChart_Template = { "","pieChart_1Panel_template.xlsx"};
private static String[] excelPieAndBarPlot_Template = { "","pieAndBarChart_1Panel_template.xlsx"};
private static String REGEX = "";
static public boolean makeTagBrowserSelection(String strOutputFileName, ArrayList<TagBrowserChildPanel> childList, String sheetName, boolean addSheet, ArrayList<Boolean> chartAttributes)
{
// chart attributes
boolean addBarChart = chartAttributes.get(0);
boolean addPieChart = chartAttributes.get(1);
boolean addNoTag = chartAttributes.get(2);
boolean addZeros = chartAttributes.get(3);
REGEX = "^" + sheetName;
Pattern p = Pattern.compile(REGEX);
String[] templateArray = null;
if (addBarChart && addPieChart)
templateArray = excelPieAndBarPlot_Template;
else if (addBarChart)
templateArray = excelBarPlot_Template;
else if (addPieChart)
templateArray = excelPieChart_Template;
try
{
int number = childList.size();
XSSFWorkbook workbook = null;
XSSFWorkbook wb = null;
XSSFSheet sheet = null;
int col_num = 0;
int row_num = 0;
XSSFRow row = null;
XSSFCell cell = null;
// if adding sheet to existing excel file
if (addSheet)
{
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(new File(strOutputFileName));
workbook = new XSSFWorkbook(fis);
fis.close();
// number of existing sheets in excel file
int numberOfSheets = workbook.getNumberOfSheets();
// check is sheetName exists already
if (isSheetExist(sheetName, workbook))
{
int counter = 1;
for (int ii = 0; ii < numberOfSheets; ii++)
{
Matcher m = p.matcher(workbook.getSheetName(ii));
if (m.find())
counter++;
}
sheetName = sheetName + " (" + counter + ")";
}
}
else
{
workbook = new XSSFWorkbook();
}
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// if template file needs to be used(if bar chart/pie chart option is selected)
if (templateArray != null)
{
InputStream is = TagBrowserSelection.class.getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(templateArray[number]);
wb = new XSSFWorkbook(OPCPackage.open(is));
sheet = wb.getSheetAt(0);
// wb.close();
}
else
{
sheet = workbook.createSheet(sheetName);
}
// Freeze top two row
// sheet.createFreezePane(0, 1, 0, 1);
// Filling up the workbook and performing the row/column formatting
for (TagBrowserChildPanel child : childList)
{
// Check if row is already created before(previous tag category)
row = sheet.getRow(0);
if (row == null)
row = sheet.createRow(0);
// Adding tag category name as header
String tagCategory = child.getSelectedCategory().getName();
cell = row.createCell(col_num);
cell.setCellValue(tagCategory);
row = sheet.getRow(1);
if (row == null)
row = sheet.createRow(1);
// Adding column headers
cell = row.createCell(col_num);
cell.setCellValue("tag");
cell = row.createCell(col_num + 1);
cell.setCellValue("counts");
row_num = 2;
// Adding tag category document summary(name and counts)
ArrayList<TagSummaryItem> tagSummary = child.getTagChartCounts();
for (int i = 0; i < tagSummary.size(); i++)
{
// Check if row is already created before(previous tag category)
row = sheet.getRow(row_num);
if (row == null)
row = sheet.createRow(row_num);
cell = row.createCell(col_num);
if (!addNoTag)
{
if (tagSummary.get(i).m_strTag == "[No Tag]")
continue;
}
if (!addZeros)
{
if (tagSummary.get(i).m_nCount == 0)
continue;
}
cell.setCellValue(tagSummary.get(i).m_strTag);
cell = row.createCell(col_num + 1);
cell.setCellValue(tagSummary.get(i).m_nCount);
row_num++;
}
// auto-size of tag column
sheet.autoSizeColumn(col_num);
col_num = col_num + 3;
}
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(strOutputFileName);
if (templateArray != null)
{
wb.setSheetName(0, sheetName);
wb.write(out);
wb.close();
}
else
{
workbook.write(out);
workbook.close();
}
out.close();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
return true;
}
Above is my code, its one code. I split into two sections. Section is the one which uses template to make chart excel sheet.
