Hello All,
I need to display excel within appian UI (interface may be). I need to edit the excel and save it back to where it was (knowledge Centre).
How can I implement it? any suggestion is appreciated.
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I would suggest starting with the Excel Tools plugin which has a number of features for reading and creating excel documents. From there let us know if you have any specific questions.
This plugin can read the data from excel. I like to display the entire excel in appian and edit it the way I edit from my excel in local computer. Can I do it?
You cannot imbed Excel functionality itself directly within Appian, but generally you can accomplish this by:
1) Read the Excel data into a CDT (I prefer fn!readExcelSheetPaging() from the plugin)
2) Display/Edit the data from CDT in an Editable Grid
3) Write the CDT to your Data Store
4) Export the Data Store Entity to Excel
The trickiest part here is typically around formatting, this will essentially clean the excel file. There was a deprecated service we still use on occasion, Export CDT to Excel, which maintains formatting via a template - however there is no real replacement to this deprecated function yet OOTB.
If you have any further questions can you describe your use case, how you envision the process working, is this a standardized Excel file etc?