Comments on: [Failed] Embedding live data from Google Spreadsheet with Apps Script ContentService in PowerPoint using oomfo

By: Martin Hawksey

Martin Hawksey — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:04:15 +0000

Thanks for the info. I look forward to trying this recipe again with the new version. Please feel free to leave a note here when it’s out
Martin

By: Rahul Kumar

Rahul Kumar — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 05:52:27 +0000

Hi Martin,

This is Rahul, Tech Lead oomfo charts for PowerPoint.

We have investigated this issue and found that its an issue with cross-domain as Google changes the domain name according to the geometric location and current version of oomfo uses XMLHTTP to fetch the data from the server, which does not support redirection, so the request made by oomfo was failing.
In the latest version (yet to release) we have fixed this issue using ServerXMLHTTP instead of XMLHTTP and I hope you won’t face this issue in the latest version.

By: Martin Hawksey

Martin Hawksey — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:22:48 +0000

I’ve used contentservice successfully outside Sites/Apps domain in my TemplatedExport tool (I’m aware of certain server config issues with x-domain http://stackoverflow.com/a/11488892/1027723 )

By: Waqar

Waqar — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 20:46:33 +0000

As per my understanding, ContentService works only with Google Site (not custom domain) or with another apps script gadget. You can not use it with third party domains or tools.

By: Martin Hawksey

Martin Hawksey — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:57:59 +0000

hmm hadn’t thought of that

[Thanks to Bruce McPherson's investigations it looks like its an issue with cross-domain content being consumed in a Windows application. The solution looks like it would be solved if oomfo used ServerXMLHTTP]

By: Sergii

Sergii — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:03:51 +0000

Try to save XML to Drive and open it from there.