Spreadsheet Import Tool

[pturmel]

Now in the Ignition Exchange.

While waiting on IA review, i Interested parties can also get this here:

https://www.automation-pros.com/SpreadsheetImportTool/

I intend to publish at this link as well as in the Exchange going forward.

Announcements will be in this topic. (:

[msteele]

Thanks for your work on this and publishing it for the community.

[jlandwerlen]

Had a chance to poke around at this today, it's a nice tool Phil, thanks for sharing.

[pturmel]

Now published:

Ignition Exchange

[Mitesh_Maniar]

Hello,
can anyone please give brief explanation about use of this tool and benefits ? thanks for all your help.

[pturmel]

I answered your question over here:

Do's and Don'ts when developing First Project with Ignition?

Many Ignition applications/deployments use many device connections with corresponding UDT instances, or with large collections of UDT instances, or with a mix of UDTs and arbitrary tags and tag folders. It is common for there to be repeating patterns for most of this, but with enough odd elements for Ignition's instance creation wizard to be unsuited. (Well, the wizard is awfully simplistic--I never use it.) With this tool, you can create structures in an Excel workbook that describes all of …

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[Kyle_Carter]

I was about to go through the process of putting my version of this on Exchange. this one is much nicer though haha

[pturmel]

[msteele]

Feature request: After the file is selected and handled by Apache POI but before the workbook is processed, list the sheets within the workbook and allow the user to select/de-select sheets for processing.

[pturmel]

Hmmm. Challenging idea. Will consider how to do that.