Showing posts with label excel services trusted location. Show all posts
Showing posts with label excel services trusted location. Show all posts

25 December, 2011

This workbook cannot be opened because it is not stored in an Excel Services Application trusted location

One of our user has opened a ticket with us by mentioning that he is getting an error while editing the date in excel. the error message is mentioned below:

This workbook cannot be opened because it is not stored in an Excel Services Application trusted location.
To create an Excel Services Application trusted location, contact your system administrator
Now its quite obvious that you need to add the document library path inside excel trusted file location.

Please refer following article and your issue will be resolved J
http://sharepointknowledgebase.blogspot.com/2011/12/excel-services-sharepoint-2010-trusted.html

If you have any queries/questions/doubts regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank youJ

excel services sharepoint 2010 trusted location

Workbooks that you want to access must be placed in a trusted location. If they are not, calls to open the workbooks will fail.

How to add a file to trusted file location:

1.On the Start menu, click All Programs.
2.Point to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products, and then click SharePoint 2010 Central Administration.
3.On the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration page, under Application Management, click Manage service applications.
4.On the Manage Service Application page, click Excel Services Application.
5.On the Manage Excel Services Application page, click Trusted File Locations.
6.On the Excel Services Application Trusted File Locations page, click Add Trusted File Location.
7.On the Excel Services Application Add Trusted File Location page, in the Address text box, type the location to save your workbook—for example, http://sp2007/sites/test/Shared%20Documents.
8.Under Location type, click the appropriate location type. In this example, select SharePoint Foundation.
9.Under Trust Children, select Children trusted if you want to trust child libraries or directories.
10.Click OK.

Microsoft has published a very good article on this which will be very usefull to configure remaining parameters regarding the same:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff191194.aspx

1. The above mentioned link covers default parameters for trusted file locations
2. How to edit a trusted file location
3. How to delete a trusted file location

You can also trust a location by using Windows PowerShell:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee428287.aspx

References:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wbaer/archive/2007/02/14/configuring-trusted-file-locations-for-excel-services.aspx

http://www.stickyglue.co.za/index.php/archives/83

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/team_foundation/archive/2010/03/06/configuring-sharepoint-server-2010-beta-for-dashboard-compatibility-with-tfs-2010-beta2-rc.aspx