Its time to take a fresh look at how we use Sharepoint. Can you imagine if a user wanting a new Excel spreadsheet had to submit a request to IT for it, then wait for a business analyst or developer to have the time to sit down and get their requirements, then build them the spreadsheet they need? Most businesses I know would grind to a halt. Every front line knowledge worker worth his salt knows how to use Excel to accomplish tasks in their job, and some are magicians at making Excel sing and dance.
Thirty years ago, however, using a spreadsheet application was an entirely different matter. Spreadsheets were something new, and it took a fair amount of computer savvy and study to figure them out.
I believe that Sharepoint has been around long enough and has matured enough that we need to start treating it like Excel – as a tool used by end users to accomplish departmental tasks. We should be teaching front line workers how to build their own solutions in Sharepoint, and empowering them to do so. I believe a computer-savvy end user could learn to build their own solutions in Sharepoint with less than 3 hours of instruction in a hands-on lab environment.
Are you an end user that would like to be able to build your own solutions in Sharepoint to carry out your tasks? Does your company let you do so? Share your stories with us.
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Use the excel import data from web fetruae -In excel 2010 it is in the data menu > get external data > from web, enter the web address and a small browser window will appear. Small arrows will appear in some of the data, choose what you want and then click on import.In the preference menu you can choose what is the refreshment frequency set it to every 1 minute and you are done.The thing is that using this is really depends on the way the html page you want to retrieve that from is built so it wont work perfectly on all sites.