I am looking for a way to
add comments to specific cells/ranges in a bound table using the
JavaScript API for Office.
So far I have not had any luck in finding a working solution for this. Is there any possible way to achieve this?
Thanks in advance
This is not currently available through the JavaScript APIs. Feel free to suggest it here though: https://officespdev.uservoice.com
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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
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
How can I activate custom filtering for my radgrid?(I googled but I didn't get any proper response regarding this)
I have a property like AllowCustomSorting but I don't have any property regarding filtering.
Can any one provide the way how to implement custom filtering?
If possbile give me a sample page then I will understand.
Thanks in advance.
All you need to know about filtering:
http://www.telerik.com/help/aspnet-ajax/grid-basic-filtering.html
I usually do my filtering/sorting within my stored procedures as that brings huge speed benefits when working with larger tables.
I'm aware this is a fairly old question now but this link should help you:
Note that it has a sample project at the bottom of the page.
The property you are looking for is AllowFilteringByColumn="True"
This page has a sample using a dropdown and a custom filter.
Can any body give me better way to find control in sharepoint page.I user below code to find control in sharepoint page.
$("nobr:contains('Add Another Contractor')")
May be better or faster way if any Please tell me.
Thanks,
An alternative:
Find the table cells using this selector: table.ms-formtable td.ms-formlabel
For each cell, get the nobr (maybe use .children())
I currently work with prototype.js, but you can take a look at the library I maintain: SPUtility.js. You don't mention what you're attempting to do with the elements, but it may help.
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/