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First steps with MS-Calendar Analytics
- After installing Calendar analytics (and, if you do not already have it, PowerPivot), open the Calendaranalytics spreadsheet from your desktop and click on “Refresh Calendar”.
- “Enter your full email address. Users with more than 1 email address may need to try each of them.”
- “Enter a start date and end date for the timeframes for the Dashboard to reflect”/
- “The interface will prompt you for the user’s aliases to add. You can add multiple.”
- “Type in users’ aliases of whom you have permission (i.e. “Full details”) to access their Outlook calendar and click Add”
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- Do not use the fully qualified email address for the alias, or else:
- You cannot comma delimit (so AutoIt to the rescue).
- You can continue after such a non-fatal error:
- Is your “Update all” greyed out ? Restart Excel.
- Accept the offer to upconvert:
- Update all becoame available after restart of excel, even with download exceptions – maybe the unsaved update of the spreadsheet form powerpivot 1 was the root cause ?
- Not that here upconversion to the new powerpivot version does not “take”:
- If after a restart of excel your powerpivot tab on the ribbon does not show, reenable the powerpivot addin.
- How to reenable: excel file/ options / select dropwdown: addins, button:go, check the Checkbox in front of powerpivot:
- What if even after a restart of excel, this does not “take”? See whether in the registry the key CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Excel\Resiliency\DisabledItems contains the path to your powerpivot add-in,like here:
- Delete the key and restart excel, your powerpivot ribbon tab =should be back. Hope this will last?
- Now updating does something:
- This opens the powerpivot window with the meeting data collected fro mms-exchange:
- Which can be interactively: visualized in the calendaranalytics sheet
- More results here.
Hi, unfortunately I am not able to install Calendar Analytics with Excel 2013. Is it asking for some share tool which is not available in Excel 2013. Howevery there must be a solution to run this with Excel 2013 right?! I really want to try it out and will appreciate your help. Thanks a lot, Niah
Hi Niah, I think with the arrival of Excel 2013 (I have still been using Excel 2010 with PowerPivot at work) there has been a licensing change for PowerPivot – which is what Calendaranalytics uses internally, you will see the PowerPivot on the ribbon, and a PowerPivot table open in the background when you open the Calendaranalytics spreadsheet. I also think I read, after many complaints, Microsoft loosened the licensing restrictions for PowerPivot in the very recent past – I do not recall the details, but I suggest you research down that path. Good luck! Thomas