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The AquaLogic Interaction Portlet Framework - Microsoft Excel lets business users create portlets that display information from existing Excel spreadsheets, tables and charts.
Building a portlet with the Excel Portlet Framework requires no programming. Portal users simply specify the Excel file to use and how to display the information in the portlet. The display is updated whenever the data in the Excel file changes.
Portlets can be created by Community owners as well as portal users. The Framework is comprised of the Excel Framework API which provides an interface allowing end users to publish Excel information easily by creating portlets from existing Excel charts, tables, and ranges. The Framework utilizes the COM-based Excel API to integrate Microsoft Excel with the portal. The Framework API copies and stores Excel files, retrieves and caches Excel data, compares last-modified date information, returns a list of files linked or uploaded by the user, exports chart objects and sheets as image files, performs sorting operations, and handles other non-UI functionality.
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This guide details how to build and manage portlets using the Excel Portlet Framework. See Installation and Upgrade Guide for AquaLogic Interaction Portlet Framework - Microsoft Excel for detailed installation instructions. For information on creating Excel spreadsheets, tables and charts, see the documentation for Microsoft Excel.
This guide is written for the user responsible for creating and configuring Excel portlets. This user must have knowledge of how to administer objects in the portal and an understanding of Microsoft Excel.
This guide includes the following chapters:
This book uses the following typographical conventions.
This section describes other documentation and resources provided by BEA.
This book is written for system administrators responsible for installing or upgrading AquaLogic Interaction Portlet Framework - Microsoft Excel.
It is available on http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/index.html and on the application CD.
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These files are written for Excel Portlet Framework administrators. They include information about new features and known issues in the release.
They are available on http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/index.html and on the application CD.
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This document is written for business analysts and system administrators. It describes how to plan your AquaLogic User Interaction deployment.
It is available in electronic form (PDF) on http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/index.html.
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