Displaying Charts using data in Excel and Chart.js library
Displaying Charts using data in Excel and Chart.js library This document explains the requirements to create and display Charts on SharePoint Page by fetching data from Excel Sheets and displaying it in beautiful Charts generated using Chart.js library. You might think why we need to do this much coding as we can directly display Excel webparts on page and display charts generated from Excel. But Excel Web parts depends on Excel Service Application to be running in Farm and this Service is not available in Standard version of SharePoint 2013. Also Excel webpart are very heavy webparts as it tries to load Excel functionality in browser. Get started with some background I had a requirement to display multiple charts from Excel on SharePoint page as our Excel was very heavy approx. 5MB size so it was slowing the performance of page. So I come up with angular based project to display chart using Chart.js library. In this project I’ve used following libraries: JQuery.mi...