Re: using libreoffice calc software as a library

Thanks for your reply and sorry for havent answered yet.

I’ve got a customer in the insurance market. All insurance / tariff calculations are developed in 
excel; the calculations use simple calculations and lookups.
For providing the calculations in a web frontend, we have to rebuild / reengineer them (currently 
in php), which is time consuming, error prone and boring.
And because the logic of a plain calculation procedure in php/python/java is quite different from 
cell-processing, even slight modifications in the sheet are horrible to adapt and test.

It would be much better if we can take these sheets as is and deploy them in a web famework. Moving 
the customer from excel to libreoffice won't be a show stopper, so using libreoffice instead of 
excel would be fine.

Looking forward to your suggestions,

Detlef

  
> Am 03.02.2017 um 13:52 schrieb Tor Lillqvist <tml@iki.fi>:
>
> > I don't need the spreadsheet character - I just want to fill in some input
> > values into the input cells, and to read out the results from other cells.
>
> Could you give a more concrete example?
>
> My first thought is that if you don't need any spreadsheet
> functionality, why do you even consider Calc? Why not just use
> whatever language you know that one can write a
> plug-in/extension/whatever it's called to your web server in, and use
> a normal expression in that language? What Calc functions were you
> planning to use; some that aren't readily available in typical
> programming language libraries (like the financial or statistical
> ones)?
>
> Also, I am fairly sure, even if it is possible to use Calc as a
> "library" (through UNO), that will be way more complicated to set up
> than to just writing the code you need directly.
>
> --tml


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