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How to create an interactive pivot table/chart within Sharepoint Server?

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The thing I'm dealing with is that I need to use BI tool to create pivot table/chart to for user who's going to see data through browser. However, after I successfully created a cube by using SSAS in MSSQL and connected it with MS Excel 2007, I got stuck in publishing MS Excel Spreadshit containning pivottable/chart to Excel Web Access Aart within Sharepoint Server 2007. Each time I want to filter/refresh data it turns out to be failed.
It's says this: The data refresh failed.
The data cannot retrieve the external data for the following connection: "server_name. db"
The data source may be unreachable, may not be responding, or may denied you access.
Verify the data refresh is enabled for the trusted file location and that the workbook data authentication is correctly set.
I'm not sure what I would miss in setting up or activating any service, shoud I install sth. like ActiveX Aomponent like it used to be done in Excel 2003?By the way I'v already added web site(subsite) into the trusted file location and I'm not AD user which means I'm using Windows authentication only which is set up within data connection authentication. And I'm running the MOSS2007 Enterprise Edition with MSSSQL 2005 on Windows Server 2003 sp2
Could someone help me out!? or should I give up creating an interactive pivot table in Sharepoint Server?
Anything give for advice would be really appreciated!!
- Edited by Mike Walsh FIN Tuesday, May 31, 2011 6:14 AM Time pressure ("I've been dealing with this for two weeks") removed. Just ask the question.
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 6:02 AM
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Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) is not mandatory to configure DNS for a development environment, you can provide any name while configuring the DNS example: somedomainname.com, example.com etc.,
Moreover, don't worry about the code, I already have it, but have to fine tune as per your requirement (if you mention so)
Even I have posted related code which publishes the Excel document to a document library, here it is
Let me know, thanks
Best Regards, G Vijai Kumar | My Sharepoint Blog- Marked as answer by David HM Wednesday, June 8, 2011 1:21 AM
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 7:33 AM
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Hi,
I understood that you are unable to view the updated data in excel sheet, if you don't mind to have custom solution to refresh the data connection and publish the Excel sheet there is a work around for this by using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel and also by Excel Service web service
Please look into the below similar threads
Let me know
Best Regards, G Vijai Kumar | My Sharepoint BlogTuesday, May 31, 2011 12:45 PM -
sorry G Vijai Kumar , I'm a beginner to moss so that I couldn't understand the way you use to fix this problem because I can hardly understand the meaning of code, but I did some search for the support of MS, it says this feature has to be done with SSO authentication. but I only use windows authentication and I don't have a DNS so of course I can't run AD in this case to activate the SSO service.
Do you have any idea that I can use windows authentication to continue doing this case??thanks for your adivce.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 4:38 AM -
If you want to continue with Windows authentication you can accomplish this by the approach mentioned in my previous post.
Please confirm that what type of approach you want to follow either by SSO or by using code
I understand that you don't have the DNS to configure SSO, even it is not a big deal to configure DNS on server, please follow How To Install and Configure DNS Server in Windows Server 2003 and follow configure SSO for external data connections/excelservices
Please do let me know.
Best Regards, G Vijai Kumar | My Sharepoint BlogWednesday, June 1, 2011 5:55 AM -
Dear G Vijai Kumar, so far as I'm concerned that I wouldn't choose to use code to fix the problem bcuz I'm running out of time. and if I want to use SSO do you mean that I can configure SSO without a real NDS(dami) carrying on authentication task or should I apply real one to configure it??
thanks again.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 6:35 AM -
Fully qualified domain name (FQDN) is not mandatory to configure DNS for a development environment, you can provide any name while configuring the DNS example: somedomainname.com, example.com etc.,
Moreover, don't worry about the code, I already have it, but have to fine tune as per your requirement (if you mention so)
Even I have posted related code which publishes the Excel document to a document library, here it is
Let me know, thanks
Best Regards, G Vijai Kumar | My Sharepoint Blog- Marked as answer by David HM Wednesday, June 8, 2011 1:21 AM
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 7:33 AM