Comments on: Connecting Xcelsius to Google Spreadsheets

By: Rupert

Rupert — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:22:33 +0000

Did anybody find a solution for the ‘blank cell’ issue? This happens with every web service within XCelsius and is rally annoying …

By: Natasha Lloyd

Natasha Lloyd — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:23:48 +0000

Hi Ruan,

Thanks for your comment. I went back and checked, and found that I was already using the “clean” version of the URL in my model.

Have you checked that yours works when you publish your SWF to a server? I was able to get it to work locally on my machine, but not when I put it on my server.

By: Ruan Steyn

Ruan Steyn — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:04:36 +0000

Hi All.
I have managed to get past this problem. Here’s what I did…

I created a Google Spreadsheet (will use the demo URL in my explanation) to track responses submitted via a Google Spreadsheet Form on my website.
I followed all the steps above and when I got to the blue error I took some time to read what it was saying. The URL Format seemed to be the key here.
I looked at the URL that Google generated for my Spreadsheet.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pLFYLJSMK4-8ScLNsvEWOOw=true&gid=0&output=html

I noticed that it had some extra stuff at the end when compared to what the error was showing as the required format. So I removed the following stuff “=true&gid=0&output=html”

That did the trick, I could instantly view the data inside my Xcelsius generated SWF.

Hope this helped.

By: Muhammed Ismail

Muhammed Ismail — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:04:18 +0000

You could use a PHP script redirector as a workaround

By: Timo Elliott

Timo Elliott — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:24:03 +0000

Ryan — yup, you nailed it. I just downloaded http://www.google.com/crossdomain.xml — doesn’t allow any access from anywhere, so yes, the only way the connector can work is to be on the local PC…

By: Ryan Goodman

Ryan Goodman — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:47:31 +0000

This is a great blog! The Google Spreadsheet connector is a promising concept, but does not work when published to any website. I do not believe that Google has a crossdomain policy open for an Xcelsius SWF to make calls. It is unfortunate that the labs guys spent the time to get 90% of the way there for a feature that we will probably never see in the product.

By: Natasha Lloyd

Natasha Lloyd — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:55:17 +0000

@James: No, I haven’t had a chance to go back and resolve that. I will see what I can do. Send me an email (nblloyd [at] gmail [dot] com) if you want to me to notify you when I resolve it so you don’t have to keep checking back here.

By: James Garrity

James Garrity — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:45:34 +0000

Natasha,

You figure out that error that you are receiving yet? Has anyone. I had received the same error, it was helpful to see that it wasn’t me, but I’d really like a solution.

Thanks,

Jim

By: Christophe

Christophe — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:26:57 +0000

Thank you for this blog entry. It was pointed out to me on the SAP Xcelsius forum. I am also interested in connecting to Google spreadsheets and I wasn’t aware (yet) of the issues you point out above. Reading this saved me a lot of heartache.Please let us know if you find a way to sort out the security error. Cannot connect to you on LinkedIn (no email address) but please use my email to connect when you can.