Like I said before I am new to meteor, I have a excel file on my desktop I want to import in meteor and be able to manipulate.
Maybe useful:https://jspreadsheets.com/
(a) make/use a speadsheet style ui frontend. Populate this from a object in your database (with a cell structure so it resembles a spreadsheet)
(b) add functionality by making buttons which do stuff by interfacing with the o365 api. In this model your excel spreadsheet would sit within your o365 account.
© Alternately, upload spreadsheet as a file into your app and save somewhere in cloud storage. Trigger a excel spreadsheet parsing library to extract data, and then put said data into your database. Then write functions to do stuff which mimics database.
@tathagatbanerjee, Thank for the reply. I can populate my excel file by clicking a button that allows me to go get the excel data sheet on my desktop that part work fine.
The change is that now I want the program to be able to upload the excel data sheet when it is run so I can have a field that will allow me to search it.
Basically, you would need to trigger an async call to do this somewhere in the Meteor.startup.
That being said, can i recommend you look at Clever Beagle by @themeteorchef - its a really good starter app. Helped me understand how to design small apps in Meteor.
