Introduction to Excel Services, or “running Excel spreadsheets on a server”

re: Introduction to Excel Services, or “running Excel spreadsheets on a server”

anon — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:58:26 GMT

You said : "Eliminating multiple versions of the truth – or many copies of the same spreadsheet that are out of sync with each other".

In the PDC video, the presenter said the synching is managed by the FS behind sharepoint. So you don't merge changes at all?

re: Introduction to Excel Services, or “running Excel spreadsheets on a server”

Orion Adrian — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:07:26 GMT

Is this not a reverse of how it was done just a version ago with SharePoint defining the structure and Excel merely editing it? Does this mean that SharePoint and Excel are going to coordinate a lot better? I found it particularly frustrating that SharePoint would lose my Excel formulas, so it's nice to see that's going to be fixed.

My question is are we going to loose the different views we had of the data with existing SharePoint lists? The ability to create different views of the data was very valuable especially with the ability to make some of those views DataSheet views.

re: Introduction to Excel Services, or “running Excel spreadsheets on a server”

Austin — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:07:41 GMT

How do documents made with VSTO work with this? If I deploy a VSTO-enabled Excel document, with all the assemblies, etc... to SharePoint - will the full fidelity of the code-behinds still work?

I could see this being a useful feature, so all accessing clients don't need a version of Office that is VSTO-capable (I know all of Office "12" will allow VSTO documents to be opened and used, I'm thinking more of downlevel clients).

re: Introduction to Excel Services, or “running Excel spreadsheets on a server”

PatriotB — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:42:26 GMT

Yikes -- that second screenshot is entirely HTML? When I saw it I thought, ok, it's using a new version of Office Web Components...

re: Introduction to Excel Services, or “running Excel spreadsheets on a server”

TJM — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:13:00 GMT

Hmm, very (very) interesting.

I'm sure I'm jumping the gun here and you'll explain more later but will this functionality be exposed to other applications? I'm thinking tools like Applix TM1 or Hyperion's Essbase that normally work using special formulae in the spreadsheet to pull the data from an external (OLAP) database? Obviously I wouldn't expect Excel out of the box to support them but does it provide the hooks that the other vendors can work with?

re: Introduction to Excel Services, or “running Excel spreadsheets on a server”

Ian Ringrose — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:06:01 GMT

How match will it cost
free, $100, $1000, or $10000 per server?

E.g. as a ISV could I make use of this, or would it put up the cost of my ASP.NET based application too match?

Ian Ringorse
ian@ringrose.name <-email on website

re: Introduction to Excel Services, or “running Excel spreadsheets on a server”

David Gainer — Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:05:51 GMT

Greetings,

Anon, Excel Services can access spreadsheets stored in SharePoint document libraries or any UNC path. The assumption is a copy is stored in one central location and the various users view and interact with the same workbook through the browser. It doesn’t support syncing multi-user edits to the same file. The following posts will clarify this further, but let me know if your question remains unanswered.

Orion, Excel Services and support for SharePoint Lists in Excel (which, I believe, is the feature you are referring to) are two separate features. Excel Services provides a new way to interact with the spreadsheets stored inside of SharePoint. Again, the following few posts should help clarify, but let me know if this remains unclear.

Austin, the short answer is “no”. Excel Services will not support spreadsheets that contain code in this version, though we definitely see the value in doing so. In future posts I will detail what else is not supported as well as what programmability and extensibility is supported in this release.

Patriot, indeed it is entirely HTML, so it would work in any browser.

TJM, we will have a couple of posts on the programmatic interface and extensibility model for Excel Services that should address your question.

Ian, pricing and packaging are not finalized.

re: Introduction to Excel Services, or “running Excel spreadsheets on a server”

Steve Dispensa — Sun, 13 Nov 2005 08:39:51 GMT

I posted a news story on this at ArsTechnica:

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2005/11/12/1809

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