通过脚本用Office365 Excel打开CSV

Question

Goal

Open a CSV file with Office365's Excel without saving the file on the client machine

Problem

Saving the raw data on the client machine will lead to a lot of old excel files laying around and I would like to prevent this. In a perfect world, I would like to have a button in my application that says "Export to Excel" which opens office365's excel application with the data. Just as you would do with a local installation. After migrating to the cloud, saving files locally, this feels like a step in the wrong direction.

Is it possible to send data to an excel sheet with scripting?

Background

This is an internal application that will not be accessible online and my users are using Google Chrome.

Manual Solution (Not accepted)

1. Save the file on the machine
2. Open Excel
3. Use the import tool

Possible Solution if nothing else (over engineering)

1. Backend sets up a network drive
2. Saves the CSV to the drive
3. User opens Excel and imports the file from his/her space on the shared drive

This feels wrong. Is it possible to open a tab with excel, use some kind of local storage space, window events, broadcasting channel or query arguments to insert data? Query is probably the worst possible option as I dont know the size of the data. I can't seem to find the right documentation for this.

Answer 1

You could try storing the csv raw data into a SQL database and then have a single html page that connects to the DB and displays the plain text on a blank html page. Maybe add a security token using a GET request and then all you would have to do is open the url from within excel instead of a file on the local computer.