I readily and often admit that I’m a SharePoint novice.
OK, that’s out of the way, so to the point: Is there any built-in way to export from a SharePoint 2013 app, hosted in Office 365, into Excel? By “built-in” I mean without using .NET coding.
I have an app – a proof of concept – that I’ve built using Access 2013. It’s all of 5 little tables, and then it runs as a SharePoint app from Office365. I can’t for the life of me find how one could export the data to Excel. OK, I have found some posts that talk about .NET coding …and then call that. But I’d think with Jquery, html5, etc, there ought to be a way.
I’m certainly not giving up yet, but if anyone has any ideas / pointers as to where to look to figure this out, please do let me know!
Hi Sigitas,
My understanding is that although the app is developed locally using Access 2013, each time the app is saved, it is saved to the O365 cloud. The data itself is hosted by (stored in) SharePoint 2013. I’ll explore javascript. The intention (in this case, at least) is to only consider Access 2013 for developing smaller applications (limited amount of data and limited number of users).
For enterprise-wide applications, we would be more ‘traditional’ – gold/platinum farm, most likely at least some of the data stored in ‘normal’ SQL tables, rather than SharePoint lists, etc.
For now I’m exploring the capabilities and limitations – or the best practices – when using Access 2013 and O365. It’s definitely a learning process!
Thanks.
– Joe
