Integrate Office 365 Excel Online in Web Application

Question

Given Excel online is an excellent spread sheet implementation for the web, it would be desirable to use it as a spread sheet component in web applications.

We are using an angularjs frontend and an ASP.NET backend and would like to use Excel online essentially as a spread sheet component inlined into the web app.

Browsing the web, I don't see any suggestion on how to integrate Excel online into my own web application. Has anyone managed to do it?

Answer 1

We can use WOPI protocol to integrate with Office Online in our web application. Here are two figures show you how it works:

And you can get a sample code to implement the WOPI server from here . And below are some helpful links for you get started:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/officedevdocs/2013/03/21/introducing-wopi/

https://wopi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/