Is there any way to find hidden tabs in an excel template ?

RE: Is there any way to find hidden tabs in an excel template ?

aloks0189 — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 07:45:24 GMT

Hi Sunil

I am a bit curious about, if you are the one who has defined/created this template, then why don't you unhide/show the hidden tab in template? Was this the part of your requirement?

Also, if you are the one who has designed this template, then you must be aware of tab numbers which are hidden.

Otherwise you have no other way than building a custom plugin as suggested by Nino and Shiva.

RE: Is there any way to find hidden tabs in an excel template ?

Shiva Valusa — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 07:27:52 GMT

AFAIK Appian does not support such scenario currently and there are no plug-in available in Appian app market as well. If it is mandatory feature in your requirement you need to built a plug-in for the same.

RE: Is there any way to find hidden tabs in an excel template ?

gianninol — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:55:23 GMT

Hello,

If you open the Excel template, you can right click on any sheet name at the bottom and click "unhide". If you need to check for hidden sheets programatically through Appian, the only way I know of to do that would be to create a custom plug-in and install it on your Appian instance. Utilizing the Apache POI library, it would be very easy to detect hidden sheets from within a plug-in. You can also use the readexcelsheet function of the Excel Tools Shared Component to determine the total number of sheets, but that won't tell you if any are hidden.

Thanks,
Nino

RE: Is there any way to find hidden tabs in an excel template ?

Shanmukha — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:39:34 GMT

Hi Sunil,

I am just curious about to know, Could you please tell me why you want to find hidden tabs from the template if it is in your control. I am not exactly sure about your scenario but If I were you I will create template with no hidden tabs.

Could you please elaborate a bit further about the scenario?