Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Annie Colonna

Carlos Augusto Otero

Christopher John Gross

Ehab Sobhy Deraz

Caoimhe Grace Dowling

Tien Bui

The techniques described herein facilitate supporting remote micro-services from cloud-based analytics platforms as native functions in spreadsheet applications, e.g., Microsoft Excel&#xae;. In an implementation, a method of supporting remote micro-services as native functions in a spreadsheet application is disclosed. The method includes accessing a listing identifying at least one micro-service that is available for use by a user of a spreadsheet application. The at least one micro-service is remotely located in a cloud service platform. The method further includes obtaining a schema associated with the at least one remote micro-service, generating a translation model based on the schema, and registering the skeleton spreadsheet function as a native function in the spreadsheet application. The translation model maps between the at least one remote micro-service and a skeleton spreadsheet function.

Techniques for supporting remote micro-services as native functions in spreadsheet applications

In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for indicating a refresh activity that affects an object in a shared document are presented. A first instance of a shared document may be displayed on a computing device of a first user. A second instance of the shared document may be displayed on a computing device of a second user, wherein the first and second users are concurrently active in the shared document. An indication that the second user has initiated a refresh of underlying data affecting an object displayed in the first instance of the shared document may be received from the second instance of the shared document. An indication of the initiated refresh may be displayed in the first instance of the shared document.

Growing community of inventors

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Annie Colonna