Before you begin

Before starting the steps to configure an External Content item, ensure the following prerequisites have been met:

• If you are placing the spreadsheet on a remote computer in your network, ensure connectivity between the computer where the ViewApp will run and the computer where the remote spreadsheet has been saved.

  Mapping a network drive is a typical way to connect to a remote computer hosting documents that you want show in a running ViewApp. For this configuration to work successfully, it is important that the computer to which the ViewApp is launched from has the same drive letter mapped to a location having the referenced document.

  The SpreadsheetViewerApp shows an error message to the user if the specified URI connection to the Excel spreadsheet file is bad. For more information about the error message, see SpreadsheetViewerApp error message.

• Save the spreadsheet in the presentation format that you want to display in the SpreadsheetViewerApp.

  Important: The SpreadsheetViewerApp only supports the xlsx Excel file type. The earlier xls Excel file type is not supported.