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Jay A. Ritchie
I understand that I can use VBA code to call SharePoint web services and
get that data into Excel. I was wondering if there's a more direct way
using Office/Excel objects to do the same thing. Seems like depending on
how you go about things, Excel uses a couple of different mechanisms to
get data from SharePoint.
So far I've identified the following:
1. Use Excel VBA code to call SharePoint's Data Retrieval Web Services.
2. Export a list from SharePoint to Excel which uses a iqy file.
3. Use Excel's Data Import feature which uses a data retrievel service
definition (UXDC file) and Excel's ActiveWorkbook.XmlImport method. (I
haven't found documentation for this methods explicit support for UXDC
files.)
What I want to do is aggregate data from multiple SharePoint lists
inside Excel and really just want to know which way is the best way to
do this.
Thanks,
Jay
get that data into Excel. I was wondering if there's a more direct way
using Office/Excel objects to do the same thing. Seems like depending on
how you go about things, Excel uses a couple of different mechanisms to
get data from SharePoint.
So far I've identified the following:
1. Use Excel VBA code to call SharePoint's Data Retrieval Web Services.
2. Export a list from SharePoint to Excel which uses a iqy file.
3. Use Excel's Data Import feature which uses a data retrievel service
definition (UXDC file) and Excel's ActiveWorkbook.XmlImport method. (I
haven't found documentation for this methods explicit support for UXDC
files.)
What I want to do is aggregate data from multiple SharePoint lists
inside Excel and really just want to know which way is the best way to
do this.
Thanks,
Jay