I have a library of functions written in JavaScript, for example myfactorial(n) can caculate the factorial of n in my way.
I would hope to develop an add-in by JavaScript API for Excel, such that once a user loads the add-in, they could use the embedded functions, e.g., write in a formula: =myfactorial(A2) or =callfunction("myfactorial", A2). In short, it is about supporting User Defined Functions by JavaScript API for Excel, I guess they are asking the same thing here.
So, does any know how is the progress? Otherwise, is there some workaround that we could do?
Thanks for this question! User-defined functions are a central part of Excel customization today. We're working on a solution that will bring those capabilities across all our modern Excel platforms. We're still figuring out the design, so unfortunately I don't have a timeline or details to share right now. I'll give an update in a few months.
-Michael, PM for Office add-ins
Update 11/6/17: JavaScript custom functions in Excel are now available in Developer Preview for anyone to try: https://aka.ms/customfunctions
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I would like to display a graph on the home page of my sharepoint online site. I can add in a quick chart but it does not fit my requirements.
Basically, I have a task logger where i log all incoming tasks, they are assigned a status - closed, completed, in progress, on hold, and pending.
I would like to display this visually on the home page so we can see how many tasks per status.
I think the x axis would the status and the y axis would be the value.
I'm not sure how to achieve this? i've seen multiple examples of coding for this but being inexperienced in coding, i'm not sure how to amend or adapt the codes for my requirements.
If someone could please provide a solution or have any ideas, that would be greatly appreciated.
We can use the solution below from GitHub to achieve it.
Modern Charts
Or we can use modern script editor web part with chart js plugin and REST API to achieve your requirement.
In classic site page, we can use script/content editor web part with custom JavaScript code to achieve it.
If You don't plan to code the solution I would suggest two different then quick chart webpart approaches:
File Viewer webpart - You could create some excel file to store all Your task list there. This file could be stored on some document library. The excel file could have data in one tab and chart in other. Using File viewer You could add this excel file on any SharePoint page. On one Page You could present the tab to change data (tasks), on other the tab that has the chart. I know..a bit of a workaround but this is one of the simplest solutions I thought of without coding :)
Power BI- this tool for sure may will fit any needs as in this tool You may do almost anything. Of Course You need Power BI server for this. You may create any chart/report with this also from data taken directly from SharePoint
Hope this will be of any help to You
I am developing a Word add-in with Office.js that utilizes ContentControl.insertText. According to the documentation, this method is provided by WordApi requirement set 1.1, which is supported in Office Online. Furthermore, the documentation for ContentControls lists Office Online as being supported and does not mention any exceptions when it comes to using that particular method.
That said, when I run the add-in in native Word 2016, everything works fine, but when I run it in the Word Online environment, it fails with the following exception:
code:"NotAllowed"
errorLocation:"ContentControl.insertText"
message:"The action isn’t supported in Word Online. Check the OfficeExtension.Error.debugInfo for more information."
For reference, I am using it like so:
control.insertText(heading.Text, 'Replace');
I also tried running the example provided in the documentation, with the same results: it works in Word 2016, but fails with the above exception in Word Online.
Has anyone been able to successfully insert text into a ContentControl in the Office Online environment? If not, are there plans for this functionality to be supported?
Any input or clarification would be most appreciated! Thanks!
I'm an engineer from MS. There are some cases which contentControl.insertText is not allowed.
I think the cause of your case is that there is more than one paragraphs in the heading.text and you try to insert heading.text into a inline content control.
The inline content control means that the content control just some part of a paragraph.
In order to make sure the root cause of your scenario, could you share me the doc and the script code.
I can't find a resource that clarifies the programming differences between Polaris and Orion versions. I've been googling for a few days now.
Probably you already read this article written by Jukka Niiranen
The Next Dynamics CRM User Experience: Orion
I think Gemini release will bring (at least) the possibility to use Xrm javascript with the new forms (actually is really a shame to don't be able to pre-fill a field or to do some show/hide logic) and provide the xml definition that will replace the ribbon.
I'm not sure if there is such a document yet. Before we start with Orion, we have to pass Gemini, first. And given the inconsistency between road maps and reality this far, it could as well be that Orion will be known as CRM-2014.
I noticed that sitecore has the option of exporting users in an Excel format.
I need to have similar functionality for exporting 'participations', (a users can enlist to take part in an 'event', and if their entry is approved via a sitecore workflow, a 'participation' item is created in the content tree)
Since mostly everything in Sitecore is in essence based on items, and I want to export items to Excel, my question is - what are some of the best ways of doing this?
Questions:
Is there a way to re-use this functionality for regular items?
Would it be a good idea to create a custom admin page (any tips on doing this?) which has some custom code that reads the items from the database using the API?
are there sitecore plugins/shared source projects that can help me achieve this?
Or does anyone have a better idea? - would it be better to just store the participations in SQL? I'm mostly doing it this way because I want to make use of the 'free' functionality offers, for example workflow, but if that leads to me using anti-patterns please shoot me ;)
Link is different now: https://marketplace.sitecore.net/en/Modules/Advanced_System_Reporter.aspx
P.S. Couldn't leave a comment to original answer as I don't have enough reputation. Oh well :)
Found a most excellent shared source module which does exactly this (and much more)!
Basically it allows you to configure (and easily extend, if you need to) any kind of table based report on 'items'.
The report module shows up as an application in the sitecore menu (like the user manager tool) and comes with features such as xml,csv, xls export. It's also really easy to set up, once you get the hang of it.
http://trac.sitecore.net/AdvancedSystemReporter
I have a link in one column and, based on it, I want
Number of Google searches in column 2
Page rank of first result in column 3
I know this can be done, as I saw a friend pulling google search result right in Excel. If anyone knows, please share how I could do that.
If I correctly interpret your question, one of the tasks you had to do is
How do I get programmatically the Google page rank for a list of URLs?
You can find the code to do this in this CodeProject article:
Request Google´s Pagerank programmatically
Regarding the Excel part: it depends which programming framework or platforms you could use. You could use to create a .NET extension for Excel using the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office.
From Excel there is Data->Get External Data->New Web Query. Is this what you want?
You have two options, both of which are unfortunately poorly documented.
If you are comfortable in C/C++, you can write a special DLL called an "XLL" that you can call during Excel runtime. There is some sparse documentation available. Note that this stuff isn't very fun to use.
If you prefer .NET, there is a binding for the entire Office suite outlined here that allows you to write COM-based methods that you can call from Office. It is intended for automation, but you can write any managed code you want and have Excel call into it.
There is also what Remou just suggested; I don't actually own a copy of Excel to test that out, but it may be the easiest option.
By link i meant keywords and not URL. I want to put a keyword in one cell and pull number of searches and page rank in adjacent cells.
I tried doing the same with web query in excel but i can only reach till the number of searches. that too not in the proper cell (trying to figure out). But i have no clue about how to get the pageranks.
I am not that tech savvy to code a binder or plugin for myself. Although i am checking the link by splattne. Please focus more light on it. Is it gonna be time consuming if i try to make this one..?
Regards
Thinkjayant
There are some nice plugins for this (in various languages) on GitHub:
http://github.com/search?langOverride=&language=&q=pagerank&repo=&start_value=1&type=Repositories&x=0&y=0
I have a PR checker functions in my Excel plugin "SeoTools".
http://nielsbosma.se/projects/seotools/