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Today's author, Dan Parish, concludes his discussion of building an Excel Services solution. In Part 4 , I walked through creating the web part pages for the solution. At this point, you should have a fully functional asset tracking application up and running. The last piece, that we'll build...
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Today's author, Dan Parish, continues on his discussion of building an Excel Services solution. In Part 3b I walked through creating a User Defined Function (UDF) that pulls information from a SharePoint List into Excel Services. In today's post, I will describe how to create the two web part...
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Today's author, Dan Parish, continues his discussion on building an Excel Services solution. In Part 3a I walked through how to create the SharePoint List that stores the data users enter. In this post, I will walk through how to create the Excel Services User Defined Function (UDF) that will pull...
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Today's author, Dan Parish, continues his discussion on building an Excel Services solution. Part 3 turned out to be a bit longer than we had anticipated so we've split it up into two parts: 3a and 3b. Thus far in this series, I have given an overview of the solution , and detailed how to build...
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Today's author, Dan Parish, a Program Manager on the Excel Services team, continues on with his multi-part post about building an application using Excel Services. In my last post I gave an overview of the asset tracking application that I am going to spend the next four posts describing how to build...
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Today's author, Dan Parish, a Program Manager on the Excel Services team, will discuss over the next few posts how he built an asset tracking application using Excel Services. At the SharePoint Conference in Seattle in March, I did a presentation entitled "Leveraging Excel Services to Build...
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A new MSDN article about Excel Services was just released. If you do any kind of work with Excel Services, whether you are just getting started with it or trying to do something a bit more advanced, this article is a pretty good read because it covers some of the more common pitfalls that we hear from...
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There's a new article up on MSDN that describes a custom solution built by the IT department here at Microsoft that uses Excel Services. Rather than re-paraphrase, I'll "borrow" liberally from Shahar's description : The solution is probably one of the most advanced implementation...
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Today's author, Pej Javaheri, a Product Manager on the Excel Services team, talks about one of the more common configuration questions we hear about from customers. One of the challenges in sharing Excel workbooks is ensuring that the right people see the right data. With Excel Services, this has...
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Today's author, Sanjay Kulkarni, a Program Manager on the Excel Services team. We have heard from several customers about scenarios where they have workbook dependencies. So the output of one workbook is used in other workbooks for calculations. The dependencies could be a result of the business...
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Recently I posted an article discussing how PivotTables can be used on Excel Services to mimick the Data Validation feature . The author, Dany Hoter, sent me a copy of the file he used in the example screen shots and I never got around to posting it for our readers. Here's a short description of...
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Excel has a feature called Data Validation that controls the possible values a user might enter into a cell or a range of cells. As you can see there are many options for validating data entry. The most popular is probably validating against a list of values. The list can be included in the validation...