Extension of the Week: EditGrid

The extension I’m focusing on this week is a new extension for EditGrid.  EditGrid is an Online Spreadsheet service delivering Data on Demand. With the EditGrid extension you can embed an EditGrid Spreadsheet into a MindTouch Deki page and then allow users to add to the spreadsheet.

To get started install the EditGrid extension. Once you have the extension installed then go to the page that you want to embed the spreadsheet on, edit the page, and click the Extension dialog button which looks like this:

This will bring up the Extension dialog where you can scroll down to the EditGrid extension. Then select editgrid.widget and add the username for your profile at EditGrid along with the sheet name. For this example we’ll use my EditGrid account which the username is coreyg and the sheet name is MindTouch_Deki Note: You need to include the underscores in place of spaces for the sheet name.

Now click insert extension and the extension will be inserted with the following syntax:

{{ editgrid.widget{user: "coreyg", sheet: "MindTouch_Deki"} }}

Now save the page and you will see that the spreadsheet renders with the ability to be edited by anyone who accesses the page.

Note: EditGrid has permissions for the sheets that can be altered so that people can only read the sheet and not add to it. Also if someone makes a change to the spreadsheet it will not associate the edit with the user editing, it will be associated with the one general user.

EditGrid is a nice addition to Deki as it will allow your users to collaborate around spreadsheets all within Deki.

If you have and questions or suggestions please feel free to leave a comment or contact us.