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

    If you’re having trouble installing the app, ensure that these dependent plugins are installed:
    • 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)
    Note:
    Some of these plugins are licensable features and require appropriate licenses, if used outside the spoke implementation.

    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.
    Note:
    You must specify the input values for Update Cells and Add Row actions as shown in the following examples.

    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.Input value examples for Add Row action. Example input values format for Add Row action.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.Input value examples for Update Cellls action. Example input values format for Add Row action.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.