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Excel dashboards cannot be converted into interactive web widgets due to fundamental browser security restrictions and Excel’s limited web publishing capabilities that prevent rich interactivity from translating to web environments.
Here’s how to create truly interactive dashboard widgets that maintain full functionality when embedded across multiple web pages with dynamic filter controls.
Create modular dashboard widgets with Google Sheets and Coefficient for web deployment
Coefficientenables the creation of truly interactive web widgets by leveraging Google Sheets’ superior web integration. This approach delivers genuinely interactive dashboard widgets that maintain full functionality when embedded on websites.
How to make it work
Step 1. Reconstruct dashboard components in Google Sheets for modular embedding.
Rebuild your Excel dashboard sections as separate Google Sheets ranges designed for independent widget embedding. This modular approach allows you to embed specific dashboard components across multiple web pages as needed.
Step 2. Connect widgets to data sources using Coefficient integration.
Use Coefficient to connect your new Google Sheets dashboard directly to the same data sources that fed your Excel version. This ensures your widgets display current data without manual file management.
Step 3. Design widget-ready components with preserved filter controls.
Create dashboard sections optimized for widget embedding, ensuring filter controls work within the embedded widget environment. Google Sheets maintains filter interactivity that Excel widgets cannot provide.
Step 4. Configure scheduled imports to keep widget data current.
Set up Coefficient’s automated data refresh to ensure your embedded widgets always display current information. This eliminates the manual updates required with Excel-based approaches.
Step 5. Test widget responsiveness across different website layouts.
Verify your widgets work properly when embedded in various website contexts. Google Sheets widgets automatically provide mobile-responsive design that adapts to different screen sizes and website layouts.
Step 6. Implement advanced widget features for enhanced functionality.
Set up connected ranges so multiple widgets can share filter selections, configure Coefficient’s alert system to trigger widget notifications when data thresholds are met, and enable real-time collaboration features for multiple simultaneous users.
Build dashboard widgets that actually work the way you need them to
CreateThis delivers what Excel cannot: genuinely interactive dashboard widgets that maintain full functionality when embedded on websites, providing visitors with dynamic data interaction capabilities directly within your web pages.your interactive widgets today.
