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Does the excel add-in work in a D365 bc sandbox environment

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I've been trying to get the excel add-in working for a customer in a sandbox environment but unable to do so. Some of Microsofts documentation suggest this should work and others say its not available. 

When I tried to use the "Edit in Excel" in the sandbox environment it pops an error "The excel add-in is currently not available in sandbox environments".  Anything I can do to change this?

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    Jared Hall Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    The Excel add-in isn't currently supported in sandbox environments. This is due to technical limitations with the data connection. Although there isn't yet a timeline for when this will be available and supported, it's on the list, and will get rolled out as soon as we can get to it. This has become a common request, and we hope to get to it soon.

    Jared Hall

    Microsoft

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    Hello Jared,

    As you said, Edit in Excel is not working in sandbox environments but when I click on Edit in Excel in Production Enviroment then system will open Excel with column name only not export any data even though I have selected some data.

    How to export data in excel using Edit in Excel action ?

    Jignesh Dhandha

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    Jared Hall Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi Jignesh,

    When using the Edit in Excel action, the Excel add-in does not, by default, filter any data. So you should get the entire unfiltered list of rows from the page from which you selected the Edit in Excel action. I assume that you have records in the list, as you mentioned that you have selected some data. Selecting the rows in the list shouldn't matter. If there is data in the list, you should get at least those rows displaying in the exported Excel workbook.

    Here are a few things you can check:

    1. Make sure the add-in pane in Excel doesn't display any error messages.

    2. Make sure the add-in pane isn't still refreshing the data.

    3. On the Design page of the add-in, check the data connection being used to refresh the data. You can look up this data connection on the Web Services page in Business Central to get the URL for the OData web service. Verify that you are able to get results from the web service by calling it directly from another client, or creating a direct OData connection from Excel that doesn't use the add-in.

    I hope this helps.

    Jared

  • Radoslaw Ruszniak Profile Picture
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    Hello Jared,

    any news in that topic? I was going to update data via Excel on sandbox environment but - "The excel add-in is currently not available in sandbox environments"

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    Jared Hall Profile Picture
    Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi Radoslaw,

    We plan to enable using the Excel add-in in both sandbox and multiple production environments per AAD tenant for the 2019 Wave 2 release, which is planned for October.

    Jared

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    Hello,

    Is it enable currently to use the Excel add-in for D365 BC sandbox environment?

    Thank you

    Abdel

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