Excel "viewer-only" functionality

[Daniel]

Hi support team

Our customer wants to display the content of a simple (i.e. one sheet, simple content, see sample image attached) excel on a ASP.NET MVC rendered page. Is there a way to configure the Spreadsheet component without any menues and additional functionality like editing, copy/paste, etc.? 

Or is there a smarter way to provide such "viewer-only" functionality, like loading the excel sheet and display its contet in a Grid component? 

Uploading the file is not an issue, we have implemented this already. My question is only about rendering/displaying the content of a excel sheet on a page.

Any advice is highly appreciated. 

Regards, Daniel 

[Marin Bratanov]

Hello Daniel,

The following article shows one way to achieve something similar. It is written for the WebForms wrapper of the spreadsheet widget, but the JavaScript approach is the same, the rest is irrelevant. Link: https://www.telerik.com/support/kb/aspnet-ajax/spreadsheet/details/load-excel-file-into-a-read-only-spreadsheet. Here's the extract:

spreadsheetReference.one("render", function (e) {
            e.sender.sheets().forEach(function (sheet) {
                sheet.range(0, 0, sheet._rows._count, sheet._columns._count).enable(false);
            })
        })

The goal of the spreadsheet widget is to allow editing, however, and if only display is the goal, perhaps parsing the file with a tool like RadSpreadProcessing on the server will let you generate a data source for a grid that will not require any editing. Alternatively, getting the JSON through the Telerik.Web.Spreadsheet.Workbook class may be another approach you can take to get a grid data source out of a spreadsheet.

Regards,
Marin Bratanov
Progress Telerik