I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to save a Cognos report as a .xlsx file to a local drive, and how to do it.
We are using CA 11.1.6, on-premise.
Who can help me out?
Thanks in advance,
Edwin
You do it via the run as menu option. If you are editing a report, there's a button for run as. If the report is saved, it exists as a menu item on the context menu.
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEP7J_11.1.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.ug_cr_rptstd.doc/c_cr_rptstd_intrd_producing_reports_inexcel_format.html
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from power bi desktop I created a dashboard with links to Saleforce and with a link to an excel table on my computer.
from "edit query" I deactivated the updating of the excel file in the report (it must not update) and I uploaded the dashboard online so that I can share it.
the computer on which I have the excle file does not always stay on, when I go to create a scheduled update of the dashboard, it fails because it cannot connect to the excel file.
my aim is to keep the excel file because I created some measurements (so as not to redo them) and to update the dashboard
you have to update the dashboard with the saleforce dates but not with the excel file
Put the Excel file on SharePoint/Onedrive and import it from there.
Use web connector option in Power BI Desktop option and pase the link for the connected Excel file . It will work fine
Hi dear community
I have a question please.
I want to open a Power BI report by clicking on an Excel button, but the problem is that the report is on the server, so we use Sharepoint and teams to get the files.
The .pbix file is also put on Teams and I don't know how to open it directly from the Excel button.
The report used to be local so I used this code to open it:
Sub cmdOpen_Click()
VBA.Shell "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Power BI Desktop\bin\PBIDesktop.exe C:\Users\nizar\Desktop\KPI.pbix"
End Sub
But now the report is on Teams, please Help.
PS: I can open it as a link, but it will only lead me to Teams where the report is placed, but I want it to open it directly on the application.
A Teams folder is actually a Sharepoint folder in disguise:
So you should be able to browse to the folder that contains your file in Teams, and then using the menu you should be able to select "Open In Sharepoint":
From there, you would use the normal methods of converting a Sharepoint address into a file location.
For example:
https://yoursite.sharepoint.com/sites/sitename/document_library/subfolder/test.pdf
Would become:
\\yoursite.sharepoint.com#ssl\sites\sitename\document_library\subfolder\test.pdf
I want to make an Excel Online file, then post its link or embed it in my website. Clicking on that will open the file in Excel Online. Moreover, I want certain Excel add-ins to be installed and even launched automatically.
Does anyone know if it is possible?
If it's impossible with Excel Online, is it possible for a normal .xlsx file (I will make it, and opening it in Windows systematically leads to install an add-in and even launch it)?
If you're looking to automatically open a task pane add-in when the Excel file is opened, check out this article in the documentation: https://dev.office.com/docs/add-ins/design/automatically-open-a-task-pane-with-a-document?product=excel. The Office OOXML EmbedAddin sample provides an example of implementing the autoopen functionality that's described in the article.
Along with Kim's answer to automatic opening of a task pane add-in, you can using OneDrive to handle opening a file in Excel Online using Microsoft Graph.
You're start by uploading you're .xlsx file to OneDrive using an Upload Session. Once you're file is on OneDrive, you can retrieve it's meta-data for the DriveItem. Included in this meta-data will be a webUrl property. This is a URL that, when navigated too, will open your file using Excel Online.
Please, consider this scenario:
I open file A.pptx and take it in view mode
Click on "Edit in browser" button and file opens in edit mode correctly.
Then, open file B.pptx in view mode.
Click on "Edit in browser" button and OWA opens file A.pptx contents in edit mode but using file B.pptx properties.
I think it's some related with cache but I cannot solve it.
Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
UPDATE 20151222:
I was able to reproduce this behavior using Excel Web App getting same results.
It seems like it's something related with "SessionID" based on some Event Viewer log entries:
Event Viewer - 1
Here's the code fragment I'm using to generate these IDs:
Code Fragment
Thanks any help.
I have uploaded an excel workbook we constantly update to SharePoint for coworkers to view remotely as it has information they need. Would I have to delete and replace the workbook every time we make a change or is there a way that the workbook in SharePoint can automatically update with changes we make to the original which is on a Y drive? Thank you for any assistance.
When using SharePoint I find that there's an option to view the files in a document library using Windows Explorer. When you do that you can get the path out of the address bar and use that to update the file instead of the 'Y' drive. Benefit being you could also turn on version history in SharePoint then whenever anyone uploads a new version you can go to the past versions through SharePoint.
If your users don't all have access to SharePoint you could drag and drop from the Y drive to the address from the 'View in Windows Explorer' link or even automate it by writing a DOS batch job using the COPY command to copy the file over. Then you can use windows task scheduler to run the .BAT file however often you want.
Hope that helps!