-
This blog post is brought to you by Dan Battagin, Group Program Manager for the Excel Web App team. Greetings - I hope everyone's been enjoying the content on the blog over the last few releases, and that everyone's excited to see what's coming in the next version of Office , Excel, and the...
-
Thanks to John Hancock from the PowerPivot team for putting together this post. Previous articles have covered some of the features of PowerPivot for Excel, and shown how PowerPivot helps users build really powerful BI applications right in Excel. We have described some of the PowerPivot for SharePoint...
-
Today I’m going to continue on with our baseball stats tracking workbook example and talk more about the editing capabilities in Excel Web App. If you haven’t read Editing in Excel Web App – Part I though, I suggest you check it out first. Working with your data So now you’ve got a great looking workbook...
-
Thanks to Steve Tullis for putting this together. Way back in November 2009, I wrote a short blog post announcing the two browser-based solutions the Excel team is delivering as part of the Office 2010 wave of products: Excel Services: Version two of our real-time, interactive, Excel-based reporting...
-
Thanks to Christian Stich , a consultant working on Excel Services projects, for putting together this series on the Excel Services JavaScript Object Model. Excel Services 2010 has added two entirely new programming APIs: The REST API which I covered in an earlier series of posts and the JavaScript Object...
-
Thanks to Amy Lin for putting together this post. In Excel 2007, we introduced the ability to publish workbooks to SharePoint. This feature enabled users to upload Excel workbooks (or specific workbook items) on to their SharePoint sites for people to view and interact with using Excel Services. In Excel...
-
Excel Services does a good job of rendering Excel spreadsheets with a high degree of fidelity. In other words, what you see in Excel is what you will see in Excel Services. Excel, however, is incredibly feature rich, comprising features added over decades of development. By comparison, Excel Services...
-
Thanks to John Campbell for putting together this post. Ongoing management is key to any successful server product’s deployment. It can be challenging to figure out the right initial combination of settings, and to know how to further change those settings when problems arise. With that in mind, I have...
-
Thanks to Dan Parish for putting together this post. One of the great things about Excel Services is the Excel Web Access (EWA) web part. This web part allows you to render entire workbooks, or just portions of a workbook (for example a chart or a Table) in a SharePoint dashboard page. For a high level...
-
As we saw in the previous post , using the Excel Services REST API is as simple as specifying a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) in your web browser. In this post we’ll walk through the details of the URI syntax. We start out with a simple Excel workbook stored on a SharePoint 2010 server at the following...
-
Thanks to Christian Stich for putting together this series on the REST API. Beginning our journey on all things Excel Services 2010, I thought I’d start off with a feature that’s been getting a lot of buzz lately since its introduction at the SharePoint Conference. What is it? The Excel Services 2010...
-
Thanks to Steve Tullis for putting together this post. Before delving into Excel Services 2010, I want to recap a point that some readers may not be aware of. The Excel team is delivering two browser-based solutions as part of the Office 2010 wave of products. The quick synopsis - here are the two solutions...
-
This article continues the series on PowerPivot that started with an overview as well as an introduction to PowerPivot for Excel 2010. We’ll now focus on the support PowerPivot provides for collaboration. Frequently, business users need to share applications they create on their desktops with a workgroup...
-
The SharePoint blog has a pretty extensive write up detailing the innovations in SharePoint 2010 . Here are some Excel relevant excerpts: On Business Intelligence: Historically, business intelligence has been a specialized toolset used by a small set of users with little ad-hoc interactivity. Our approach...