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SpreadsheetServer Tour
The following 30 screenshots illustrates what SpreadsheetServer is all about.
SpreadsheetConverter converts an Excel spreadsheet into a web page. The web page is a standard web form and it still calculates just like the original spreadsheet. This web page can be accessed by a modern browser from many different operating systems: Windows, Apple OSX, Linux.
In the following text spreadsheet and form are the same thing, since the form was created from a spreadsheet.
SpreadsheetServer is a complete application built using the same technology as SpreadsheetConverter. You do not need SpreadsheetConverter to use SpreadsheetServer.
SpreadsheetServer stores the content of the forms into a database,
- data can be searched, sorted, filtered just as in Microsoft Excel,
- data can be imported and exported to Excel,
- users are authentificated to make sure they do not access or change things they shouldn't change.
- anynomous users, called Guests, can fill in a form.
Fill in a form anonymously
SpreadsheetServer contains an advanced authentification system, but we start the tour with a form that we have configured so that anonymous users can fill in them.
Click at the link
and the School Store order form is opened.
We order 2 adjustable base cap and 2 short polo sleeve, and as usual, the totals are updated immediately.
We press 'Save' and the input cells are locked and the data is saved into the database. If we want to edit the form pres 'Edit', edit some values and press 'Save'.
Log in before we can fill in a form
The form Expense report can only be used by users that have logged in. When you click on the link
you will have to sign in first. Use 'demo' as user name and 'demo' as password.
Next, the form will be opened and you can fill in your last trip.
We had a meeting over lunch with a guy a Ford.
We press 'Save' and the input cells are locked and the data is saved into the database.
Press 'List' and you will see all expense reports. We configured the system to allow every one that is logged in to see all expense reports. An alternative is to let the user only see his own expense report, and only let a few users see all expense reports. You decide this type of configuration on per-form basis.
There were 2 expense reports in the system.
The List view works exactly like Excel's filters. You can sort the rows on a column, and filter them. We selected to sort the expense reports on the first name.
The rows are sorted. You can see the active filters and sorting at the bottom. Click on 'Show' to show the row as a form
And an old expense report is opened.
Press 'Edit' and fill in the second row.
And press Save.
Forms can have comments and attached documents
We can add comments to a filled in form. Press 'Comment/Attach' and write a comment. You can comment both your own forms, and other users forms.
The comment is shown at the bottom of the form. A form can have many comments.
We can also attach files to forms. These files are stored in the database and are accessable by everyone who is authenticated to see the form and who has logged in.
We attach a spreadsheet called erf.xls.
The comment is shown at the bottom of the form. A form can have many attached files.
Click on the link to download the document. You can either save the document to disk or open it directly in the relevant program.
A simple To Do list
SpreadsheetConverter supports two different kinds of spreadsheets: forms and databases. A database spreadsheet contains one record per row, and form spreadsheet contain one record per spreadsheet.
A to do list is an example of a spreadsheet database.
Press 'List' and select 'To Do list' from the select form drop down list.
The to do list has 5 columns: Priority, Date In, Assigned, Date close, and Description.
Press 'Edit' to make the grid editable. You can either edit existing rows, or add new rows at the bottom.
You can edit as many rows as you want. Changed cells are marked with an orange background. The disk icon means that these rows need to be saved.
When you press 'Save' all rows are saved.
Press 'Lock' to prevent further editing.
Custom filters work just as in Excel. We want to find all rows which are assigned to 'dc'. Select 'Custom' from the 'Assigned' menu.
Select 'Equals' and enter 'dc'
And press OK
In our database, we had 4 rows assigned to dc.
Save as Excel
The data is not locked in into SpreadsheetServer. You can very easily export it to Excel.
Press 'Save as Excel' and all rows, with the current filter applied, are exported to Excel.
The browser asks if you want to open the Excel file directly or save them to disk.
The 4 rows that were assigned to dc are now opened in Excel. Use Excel's autofilter as usual. The formatting of the cells are also correct.
Just as Excel!
As you saw in this tour, we have created an online web-based system for handling forms and databases. As much as possible, things are done as in Excel, for example filtering and sorting.