• Building an Asset Tracking Application in Excel Services – Part 4 of 5
    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 pages that make up the actual application: the page that end user's see, and the page that the admin uses. Overview Now that we have our spreadsheet running on the server and displaying data entered into the...
  • Building an Asset Tracking Application in Excel Services – Part 3b of 5
    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 this information from the SharePoint List into Excel Services. Overview Out of the box, Excel Services does not support pulling in data stored in SharePoint Lists. However, you can add this functionality...