Greetings!
I've been trying to find the best place to ask this question, so I'm hoping this is close enough to on-topic for this forum.
I have an Excel 2010 workbook that includes a table linked to my SharePoint 2013 site by a data connection. The SharePoint list feeds the table standard information that's managed on the SharePoint site, but I need the user of the Excel workbook to be able
to enter text manually in the workbook to associate local information with the line-items coming from the SharePoint list. To do this, I've added extra columns to the end of the table. This is not just text entered into columns to the right of the data table,
but rather the data table is extended to encompass the adjacent columns, so my expectation was that the rows of the table should hold some level of "identity" to associate the manually entered text with the corresponding data coming from the SharePoint
site.
The user can enter information in the appropriate cells in the "extra" columns at the end of the table, but when I refresh the data connection, the addition of a new list item on the SharePoint side results in the user's manually entered text getting out of alignment with the row it's supposed to be associated with.
Example
| Column 1(SP) | Column 2(Extra) | |
| Row 1 | Item 1 | |
| Row 2 | Item 2 | Text entered for Item 2 |
| Row 3 | Item 3 |
Then, if I add a new item to the list in SharePoint, for example, something that would appear between the original items 1 & 2, after refreshing the table, I get the following:
| Column 1(SP) | Column 2(Extra) | |
| Row 1 | Item 1 | |
| Row 2 | New Item 1.5 | Text entered for Item 2 |
| Row 3 | Item 2 | |
| Row 4 | Item 3 |
The table's data connection is set to insert rows for new items, and I could swear I had this working properly once upon a time...but I can't seem to make it work now.
Any thoughts on what would cause this?
Thanks in advance!