[LinuxUsers] scripting tool for xls replacement

[Dante Lanznaster]

Well since it's a XLS, it's probably all macros, which are in VBA. I don't
know if OpenOffice will interpret all that correctly, but to rewrite it all
to a GUI kind of thing, it's basically reprogramming it all. You might be
able to reuse some of the code if you transport it to a VBS script, but even
then you won't have a GUI.

If it's just answering questions to make a config file, I wouldn't mind not
having a GUI, in fact both VBS or bash scripting or (insert your favorite
scripting/programming language) would do nicely with questions and
generating an output for you, even dumping it to a file.

The bottom line is, unless someone else has a solution that will "convert"
what you have, it's reprogramming time.

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr <roger.rustad at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Right now, I really rely on an access point scripting tool that's
> xls-based.  You fill out the questions on one tab, and it automatically
> populates the other tabs with the config that corresponds with our
> various units. Basic, but it works quite well for like 95% of all configs.
>
> I'd like to port this over to something more open standards based, but
> I'm not sure what's the best idea.  I'd like something GUI-ish, so doing
> it in python or something like that might not work out too well.
>
> I'm not a programmer (nor are the other network guys), so something
> relatively easy is what I'm really hoping for...
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