I want to create a list from an excel spreadsheet in SharePoint 2010. When a new Excel document is uploaded to a SharePoint library, a corresponding list will be created automatically. Is this possible?
You can do this in two phases:
Create an empty MS Access database and import your excel sheet into it (in MS access go to External data -> Excel, choose your file and follow the steps to import it.
When you get the MS access table with the data from excel sheet, right click the table name in Tables section and go to Export -> SharePoint list. There you can specify the url of your SharePoint site and the name of the new list. Click Ok and wait until the list is created and the data is uploaded to SharePoint.
EDIT:
Since this needs to be done automatically (as stated in comments), this is the high overview of the things that needs to be done, with some useful links:
Create Event receiver for the library that the excel files will be uploaded to.
In the ItemAdded Method write the code that will do the following:
Get the uploaded file
Parse the excel file using the OpenXml library
Create the list in the SharePoint site, based on the columns taken from the excel file
Loop through all the rows in the excel file and insert the list item for each excel row.
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I have 50 rows of information in sharepoint list. I have downloaded the excel of the sharepoint list and I delinked it. So any changes in the excel is not automatically updated in sharepoint list.
Sharepoint list is updated by many users. Now I have updated a particular column in excel and I want these information to be updated in sharepoint from excel.
I have common columns in sharepoint and excel however since the sharepoint is updated by other users, information in other columns in excel file need not to be updated in sharepoint.
So I want to update specific column in excel to sharepoint list.
I tried to link the excel file but since the sharepoint is already updated, I dont want to mess up things.
I have a document library in Sharepoint with a lot of custom columns. Some are choices and managed metadata and text. In Word I can use quickparts for viewing the metadata from Sharepoint. But how can we do this in Excel? Quickparts is not available in Excel. I can see all the data coming from Sharepoint in Excel via File -> Info -> Properties -> Show all properties.
But I want to get those properties and put them in cells in the workbook
Excel no longer supports this. It used to, with Excel Services and SharePoint on premises, but it no longer supports this online.
You can edit the properties in Backstage, but none of the tricks with named ranges and linked custom fields that you can see for earlier versions, work any more to link metadata values with Excel cells.
Don't shoot the messenger.
I'm using PowerApps to modify a list (list A) in Sharepoint. Some of the data displayed in this list is from another list (list B), displayed using lookup. Every week I update list B, with data I get from a automated email. The email contain a excel spreadsheet.
I would like to automate this, but I've run into so many issues I'm not even sure it is possible anymore.
This is my flow:
To my knowledge, it isn't possible to update a list directly from a excel file, unless the excel file is formatted as a table. Instead I have a empty file on my sharepoint that I update, which I later try to use as the source for updating list B.
Sadly this file is either locked by myself, or it won't recognize my table.
Any solutions to solve this problem would be helpful!
Just insert a create table step into the flow.
So you will:
Receive an email with the new Excel file.
Save that temporarily in a secured spot.
Create table on the data required.
Use the table to update the SharePoint list.
I've done that, then I've taken the data listed and added it to a SharePoint list using sample data from a website about single board computers, here:
Situation/requirement: I have a sharepoint list. The entries in this sharepoint list go as entry to an excel sheet which is a form to be printed out. I am looking into a functionality flow/app that could be used to export the new entries to fill and print out to an excel template. Any thoughts?
#Gaurav Vasishth,
Power Automate offers a connector that could update Excel file on the cloud.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/connectors/excelonlinebusiness/#update-a-row
You can use this connector to update rows or create worksheet/table.
BR
I have a Sharepoint 2010 Access list which already had some data populated in it. I get data from my client in an Excel which then is needed to be appended to that Sharepoint Access list. Is there an easy way to do this? Can I bulk upload this new data which would automatically get appended on Sharepoint.
Export your existing list to Excel.
Combine the two Excel spreadsheets into one.
Import the final Excel spreadsheet to SharePoint (http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/import-a-spreadsheet-as-a-list-in-sharepoint-2010.html)