Microsoft 365 Excel Spoke
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Summary of Microsoft 365 Excel Spoke
The Microsoft 365 Excel Spoke enables ServiceNow customers to manage Microsoft Office 365 Excel workbooks stored in Microsoft OneDrive directly from their ServiceNow instance. This integration allows automation of Excel workbook tasks triggered by events within ServiceNow, streamlining workflows involving Excel data management.
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This spoke requires an Integration Hub subscription and depends on several ServiceNow plugins for full functionality. It is designed for Microsoft Office 365 Excel v1.0 but may support later versions.
Key Features
- Cell and Range Management: Retrieve and update properties of individual cells or ranges of cells.
- Table Management: Add rows, create tables, retrieve and look up details of tables, columns, and rows within Excel worksheets.
- Workbook Management: List all workbooks in a specified folder.
- Worksheet Management: Add worksheets, retrieve used cells, get worksheet details, list worksheets, and update worksheets within a workbook.
- Connection and Credential Management: Uses Integration Hub aliases for managing OAuth credentials and connection information efficiently across multiple environments, minimizing the need for repetitive configuration updates.
Practical Use and Requirements
- An Azure Portal account with a registered application providing a Client ID and Client Secret is necessary to authenticate and connect the spoke.
- Licenses may be required for some dependent plugins outside the spoke implementation.
- Input formats for actions like Add Row and Update Cells require precise value mappings corresponding to table columns and rows, including formulas and number formats.
- By leveraging this spoke, ServiceNow customers can automate Excel data operations such as updating cell values, managing tables, and organizing worksheets without leaving the ServiceNow platform.
Manage Microsoft Office 365 Excel workbooks stored in Microsoft OneDrive from your ServiceNow instance.
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Integration Hub subscription
This spoke requires an Integration Hub subscription. For more information, see Legal schedules - IntegrationHub overview.
Spoke version
Microsoft 365 Excel spoke v1.0.4 is the latest version.
Supported versions
This spoke was built for Microsoft Office 365 Excel v1.0, but may be compatible with later versions.
Spoke requirements
- Microsoft Azure Portal account
- Client ID and Client Secret of the application registered in Azure Portal
Spoke dependencies
- ServiceNow IntegrationHub Action Template - Data Stream (com.glide.hub.action_type.datastream)
- ServiceNow Flow Designer - Dynamic Inputs (com.glide.hub.dynamic_inputs)
- ServiceNow IntegrationHub Action Step - REST (com.glide.hub.action_step.rest)
- ServiceNow IntegrationHub Runtime (com.glide.hub.integration.runtime)
- Complex Object (com.glide.cobject)
Spoke actions
The Microsoft 365 Excel Spoke provides actions to automate tasks when events occurs in your ServiceNow instance. Available actions include:
| Category | Action | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cell and Range Management | Get Cell Details | Retrieves the properties of the specified cell. |
| Get Cells | Retrieves the properties of the selected range of cells. | |
| Update Cells | Updates the properties of the selected range of cells. | |
| Table Management | Add Rows | Adds one or more rows to the given table. |
| Create Table | Adds a table to the worksheet. | |
| Get Table Cells | Retrieves the properties of the selected range of table cells. | |
| Get Table Details | Retrieves the properties of the specified table. | |
| Look up Table Columns | Lists the details of the specified range columns from the selected table. | |
| Look up Table Rows | Lists the details of the specified range of rows from the selected table. | |
| Workbook Management | Look up Workbooks | Lists all the workbooks in the specified folder. |
| Worksheet Management | Add Worksheet | Adds a worksheet to a workbook. |
| Get Used Cells | Retrieves the properties of the specified range of cells in the worksheet. | |
| Get Worksheet Details | Retrieves the properties of the worksheet. | |
| Look up Worksheets | Lists all the worksheets in the workbook. | |
| Update Worksheet | Updates a worksheet of a workbook. |
Add Row action: The action input, Value 1 corresponds to the first row in your table. The
values Hello and 100 correspond to the values of the first and second column respectively.
You must provide values in the same format for the action inputs: Formulas, Formulas
R1C1, Formulas Local, and Number Format. For more information, see Add Row.
Update Cells action: The action input, Value 1 corresponds to the first row in your range. The
values Hello and 100 correspond to the values of the first and second column respectively.
You must provide values in the same format for the action inputs: Formulas, Formulas
R1C1, Formulas Local, and Number Format. For more information, see Update Rage.
Connection and credential alias requirements
Integration Hub uses aliases to manage connection and credential information, and OAuth credentials. Using an alias eliminates the need to configure multiple credentials and connection information profiles when using multiple environments. If the connection or credential information changes, you don't need to update any actions that use the connection.
For information about setting up the spoke, see Set up the Microsoft 365 Excel spoke.