jeffreyweir
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Howdy. I've just started playing around with PowerPivot, and am looking to see if it is a suitable vehicle for delivering secure interactive reports to external clients via SharePoint Online. So I signed up for a test sharepoint online account, whipped up my first PowerPivot dashboard with some sliders in it (using some .txt files as data sources) and uploaded it to my test SharePoint Online site.
But of course, when I try to use the sliders, the pivot tries to refresh, and then I get an error message "the data connection uses windows authentication and user credentials could not be delegated."
So I'm wondering whether powerpivot via sharepoint allows you to link in to external data sources, or whether all the data be within the powerpivot file itself as linked tables. IF linked tables, then Sharepoint Online ain't going to cut it, because it won't run big files via a web browser. (My sample file was 15MB, although I could no doubt strip out a lot of that).
Anyone played around with Sharepoint Online and PowerPivot together yet? Anyone know the file size limit if you want your file to be available via a browser?
I realise that PowerPivotPro have a PowerPivot Cloud option that I could use, but I'm a startup with just one test customer at present, so the $500 per month for their basic plan is beyond me at the moment. Which is why I was looking at SharePoint, which has a $20 Per user/month option. My hope was that I could pay $20 per customer login, essentially. Whether or not this fits within the terms of use of SharePoint Online I have no idea...
note I also posted this at http://www.excelguru.ca/forums/show...xternal-data-refresh&p=4599&posted=1#post4599 and someone there suggested I try here, given Rob Collie spends so much time lurking around here
But of course, when I try to use the sliders, the pivot tries to refresh, and then I get an error message "the data connection uses windows authentication and user credentials could not be delegated."
So I'm wondering whether powerpivot via sharepoint allows you to link in to external data sources, or whether all the data be within the powerpivot file itself as linked tables. IF linked tables, then Sharepoint Online ain't going to cut it, because it won't run big files via a web browser. (My sample file was 15MB, although I could no doubt strip out a lot of that).
Anyone played around with Sharepoint Online and PowerPivot together yet? Anyone know the file size limit if you want your file to be available via a browser?
I realise that PowerPivotPro have a PowerPivot Cloud option that I could use, but I'm a startup with just one test customer at present, so the $500 per month for their basic plan is beyond me at the moment. Which is why I was looking at SharePoint, which has a $20 Per user/month option. My hope was that I could pay $20 per customer login, essentially. Whether or not this fits within the terms of use of SharePoint Online I have no idea...
note I also posted this at http://www.excelguru.ca/forums/show...xternal-data-refresh&p=4599&posted=1#post4599 and someone there suggested I try here, given Rob Collie spends so much time lurking around here
