Launch Excel SAC Add-In file from SAC folder

[MelCalucin]

I saved an Excel SAC Add-In file onto an SAC folder.

When I clicked on the Excel SAC Add-In  File, it would just download the file into my download folder.   It does not open the file automatically.  I would have to go to the download folder and click on it there.

How can I configure the SAC tenant or my browser to open the Excel add-in file in either Excel app or in Excel Web when I click on the file that is stored in an SAC folder?

Thanks!

Regards,

Mel Calucin

[MelCalucin]

Hi @N1kh1l / @William_Yu ,

Thanks for your replies.

I'm trying to move everything from our BOBJ environment to SAC.  This includes dashboards (converted to SAC stories) and Analysis for Excel files (converted to SAC Add-in).

How is it that a user can navigate the BOBJ folders and click on an Analysis for Excel file and it launches without having to download, navigate to the download folder, and manually launch it?   I can also keep the Analysis for Excel file as well as the SAC Add-in Excel file in a Microsoft SharePoint folder; the user can just click on it; and it would launch.  Why can't SAC do this?  BTW, I'm using Google Chrome browser in all these scenarios.

Thanks.

Regards,

Mel Calucin

[N1kh1l]

@MelCalucin 

Currently you can only launch Excel templates from Excel interface by browsing the location on the tenant. So if you sign in to Excel SAC and go Open>Browse the tenant folder where Excel files were saved, this will launch the excel report. But if you do the other way round and go to the SAC tenant folder and click on the Excel file, it will get downloaded as excel and then you have to open it and logon to it for further use. Option to directly launch the Excel files from SAC stories is a feature planned for 2025Q1 as per the roadmap.

Hope this helps !!

Nikhil

[MelCalucin]

Hi Nikhil (@n1kh1l),

So I opened the Excel app (not the web online one) and then signed into SAC.  When I clicked on Open and selected the Excel SAC Add-In file "TEST".  It started another Excel session with the file name Book2 and not "TEST" but having the content of the file "TEST".   This new Excel session also was not signed into SAC.  I had to sign in again to have the Excel add-in file refresh its data.   Is this the same experience you're getting?

Thanks.

Regards,

Mel Calucin

[William_Yu]

MelCalucin, that's the current behavior due the limitation from Microsoft. 

[N1kh1l]

Yes that's the current behavior unfortunately that the saved workbook always opens as a new workbook without sign in and you have to logon to use the template.