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Javier
Javier

Reputation: 13

"Shared Folder" disappeared in Excel after an Office 365 update

We were pushed a Office update recently and the "Shared Folder" tab that we used for sideloading Office Javascript apps from the network share was completely removed. Does anyone have more information on how to get this folder back or what the work around is for test development?

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Missing Tab

I talked to IT and they think it could be because of something around xll add-ins being disabled in one of the updates? I dont think office javascript creates xll but maybe it has something to do with that change in Excel.

Upvotes: 0

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Answers (1)

Javier
Javier

Reputation: 13

Haven't heard any answer back on the office-js repo so for now we discovered that office365 excel workbooks still had the feature to upload a manifest. Keep in mind the payload limits of the web version of excel. We work with large sets of data and needed to write code to handle batching of the data for office online. Weirdly enough the manifests we use to sideload on Excel Desktop did not work when adding them to Office Web so we had to modify them by trial and error. The manifest validator will say the manifest is valid but the upload would still fail. Anyways, this is our work around for now.

Upvotes: 0

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