Sorry if this a noob question, but I'm just getting into Excel file management. Is there a way that when I try duplicating an Excel file that is saved in SharePoint (don't know if that is relevant), it'll also duplicate the metadata? When ever I duplicate a file, the metadata doesn't copy over...
Is it the Doc Panel metadata you're not able to get? Because in Excel 2016, Document Panel was deprecated.
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I currently generate excel files in my controller and store it in my storage path, thus I have an api to return the excel file but I want to let the user view it in the blade view. What is the best way or easiest way of doing this? Is putting the excel file in the iframe possible? As I know it is possible if the excel file is from the web and not from my own api/project path. The api that returns the excel file actually downloads the file straight away and does not just return the excel file's data
As commented above...
You may use Handsontable JavaScript plugin. It will help you get an excel-like interface.
Alternatively, you can process the excel data and simply display the data in a table
I have a system with an Excel spreadsheet template file which is used for invoicing. I would like the user to be able to click a button on an Xpage, which will then open the spreadsheet and enter the latest invoicing data in Excel. I don't mind if Excel is either the application on their machine or on the server, but my preference would be the application locally on their machine.
I've looked into Xagents, as I feel this is probably the answer. I know they can be used to create Excel but I have not been able to locate any mention of opening an Excel file, and entering data into specific cells.
Is this possible?
EDIT: you can use Apache POI for editing and creating Microsoft Office documents. This is a java project which gives you a handle to office documents and this can be used using java.
A good starting point can be the blog of Christian Guedemann from webgate:
http://guedebyte.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/documents-and-spreadsheets-with-xpages-building-the-kernel-part-ii/
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The only way I KNOW and tried to write data from Notes to Excel is exporting the data to an HTML page and setting the Content Type accordingly (e. g. as described here (there are a lot more resources available for taht):
http://www.dominoguru.com/pages/developer2010_xpagexlsexport.html
I am not sure if this is of help but it seems that this project can help you:
http://www.openntf.org/internal/home.nsf/project.xsp?action=openDocument&name=ZK%20Spreadsheet%20for%20XPages
As far as I can see this project can load Excel files from XPages - and then it should also be possible to edit the files.
Besides that the only solution I can think of is a Notes Agent that is called from the XPage. This agent can then run in background and do all the excel stuff. After running, the XPage can show a link to the Excel file. Actually this is the solution I would consider to implement - but maybe others step in with better answers here.
You don't want to introduce a dependency on Excel in your application -- wouldn't work with an iPad front-end. Rather have a look at the ZK Spreadsheet, it will fulfill your needs.
However if you have to have Excel, then you need a roundtrip solution: load the Excel from an URL (probably generated by an XAgent (?) and save it back. The saving back part is the tricky one. Normal HTTP doesn't allow that. What you need there is a webDAV capable server. Watch out for a project on OpenNTF soon (just clearing IBM legal) that provides webDAV.
However the ZK Spreadsheet looks much better for your needs.
I have a sample database at the following URL --> http://www.nnsu.com/nnsusite.nsf/%24%24OpenDominoDocument.xsp?documentId=B65507CB2DE15B3286257986005F061D&action=openDocument
Download the APCC.nsf. This will allow you to create/read a new EXCEL spreadsheet and then stream the resulting file to the requesting browser. There is not need to have EXCEL or office installed on the Server.
THe examples create a new workbook, but you can also store a "template" on the server or in a notes document and use it as a starting point and then save it to a document or stream it to the requesting browser.
With Apache POI you can read/write to a spreadsheet using data from the notes document the process is initiated from.
Does anyone know if SharePoint stores it's version numbers inside the files for Excel files? I would assume that it does not. This is what I need: I have an Excel file stored in a SharePoint document library. The file will eventually be distributed and must be able to function offline. The file is somewhat macro-intense, and I would like to be able to log the version number of the file within the file so that if there are errors, the version number would be known or even recorded in another place. Is there a way to access the version number within VBA without accessing a web service?
You MIGHT be able to try something where on the SharePoint ItemUpdating event you update the XLSX file to reflect the version number you want. I have not tried using the OM to update the Excel document, but I have with word, not with updating a version number.
I need to modify a file (text file) in a SharePoint document library. Tried to open a stream using SPFile.OpenBinaryStream() and write the data. But it doesn't work out. Any help/ suggestion would be appreciated.
Have you used the SaveBinary method?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spfile.savebinary.aspx
and depending on the doc library settings you may need to do a SPFile.CheckIn to commit the changes.
I have a method which downloads sharepoint documents to the local disk. I use SPFile.OpenBinary() method to get physical file, but it contains all fields of a parent DocumentLibrary. Does anybody know how to clear file (doc file) from these fields? I found only way to do it using Word interop library (method described here http://maxim-dikhtyaruk.blogspot.com/2009/05/trim-sharepoints-documents.html), but it doesn't fit my requirements cause it works only when Microsoft Office is installed on the machine...
You may want to read this to understand whats going on.
I do not know if this can be turned off or not, but it happens only with Word 2007 documents (docx).
You could do any of the following to turn this off:
Create a new content type and associate it with a document library. Use this document library from now on.
Look into some Open XML library or the Open XML SDK published by Microsoft.
This isn't a bug, it's supposed to be a feature! :-) Seriously though, you need to edit the Word document programmatically to remove these additional fields completely (I think even a content type will leave some behind).
For documents prior to Word 2007, you could use a toolkit like Aspose. I almost needed to do a similar thing once and would have used this product to do it. I'm sure there are other options out there.
For Word 2007 and higher, as SharePoint Newbie says, you should be able to use the Office Open XML formats to edit the document. Here's an MSDN intro article.