I'd like to use ODBC to link from one Excel (2007 version) spreadsheet to another, where both of them are stored on a website (an Intranet website using Sharepoint). Is this possible?
When I use the Excel ODBC wizard, it expects the Excel spreadsheet to be on a local drive, and doesn't let me supply a URL as the source. (just gives the message "Couldn't read file")
Thanks.
Is the Intranet location a WebDAV location?
(I believe Sharepoint is also a WebDAV server)
If so, Windows can mount WebDav locations as a local drive...
Perhaps the Excel ODBC driver can then use that?
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we have a case management system stored with the vendor, and use an excel file on a server locally to access some data, so have an ODBC link setup with security etc.
We are looking to dump the server, and i want to know if there is a way to have the excel file which will be put onto a sharepoint folder have the ODBC link embedded or linked so that a specific machine is not needed to be setup for its use.
I hope that makes sense...
Is it possible to embed google excel in my website to edit document stored locally?
My manager asked me if it is possible to integrate the Microsoft office webapp in my own website.
Clients have excel files stored on our website, we want to know if it is possible for them to open the file with a web excel page, edit the file and save the modifications. For now, they use SharePoint so it is easy for them but we intend to use an other platform.
Our client can have all the license we need.
I searched but I didn't find any solution.
I know you should be able to do this with ASP and the .Net Framework. SharePoint uses ASP pages, so you may try to do something simpler.
If you go over the Internet you'll see several solutions because people do this too.
e.g. a thing you can do is to use Open XML API to do this, and it is like reading / modifying a flat file on the server. A restriction is it has to be .xlsx / 2007 format onward.
I have a spreadsheet that is stored on a SharePoint site and I would like to link to this spreadsheet to create a "live" table in my Access database. When I go to Get external data->Excel->Link to the Data source by creating a linked table, I get an error because the filepath begins with http:. Is there a workaround for this? Thanks!
You cannot link to a web site, or a file sitting on some web site. You need (must) use the windows file networking system for this to work.
You thus could as a workaround download the file local, and then link to the local file.
Is the following behavior possible (using some features of Microsoft Office not very well known by a Linux guy)
Upload Microsoft Excel (or some other office file in Plone) as File content type
Save
When you click the file next time it opens directly in Microsoft Excel
When pressing Save in Excel it directly updates the file on the server, not the local temporary copy
I think Microsoft Office provides some APIs to do things like this but I have no idea how they work. Some Webdav URLs maybe?
Enabling external editing and using Zope External Editor Client (PYPI) should to do just that (for Archetype -based content types), but it must be installed on all client machines and may have issues. The development version should also support Dexterity-based content types.
My company is using WSS 3.0 to host a document library storing (mostly) Office 2007 format documents. Company PCs have either Office 2003 (with the 2007 compatibility pack) or Office 2007 installed.
We didn't have any problem getting docx to work, but xlsx documents don't open properly when we use the SharePoint document edit options. The file opens in excel, but displays unformatted mess (close to the notepad representation). The actual files are fine, downloading the xlsx file (using the send to -> download option) allows the file to be opened. It is only when we use SharePoints 'Edit in Microsoft Excel' that we get an issue.
I think that the issue is excel (2003) trying to open the xlsx file as if it were and xls file, and being unable to represent the zipped contents. Has anyone seen this issue before?
EDIT: I've noticed that when the document is opened with explorer, it actually opens through the Microsoft open XML coverter. Clearly, SharePoint isn't using it, is there a fix that works round this?
UPDATE: I have done a bit more research, as added in the comment below this issue replicates across all machines on our network which use office 2003 and XLSX files from SharePoint. I have confirmed that using excel to open xlsx files in explorer (without the converter) results in the same issue as when they are opened from SharePoint. I think i need a way to tell SharePoint/IE (whatever actually handles the office interaction, URLMON/HLink?) that the proper file assosciation for XLSX isn't excel.exe.
Are you able to test this on another computer? Might be related to a registry entry and/or other software causing it (because you did not had problems with word). The ideal test scenario would be a brand new OS Install with only Office 2003 and the compatibility pack.