Reference to an other sheet in formula

Hi, I have a problem using formula and Sheet reference.

I am using this :

sheet.getCell('A2').dataValidation = {
          type: 'list',
          allowBlank: true,
          formulae: ['Company.A2:A500'],
          showInputMessage: true,
          promptTitle: 'Company',
          prompt: 'In which company the user is in.',
};

And when I generate the XLSX and open the file with libre office I get ‘company.a2:A500’ in data validation and it don’t work.

I guess there is a bug in Sheet name handling, at some point you seems to put some data in lowercase.

If you have a patch I take it please! 😃

PS: I did try this too, and it gives the same behavior

sheet.getCell('A2').value = {
        formula: 'Company.A10',
        value: '',
};

[kaykayehnn]

I couldn’t get formulas linking to other worksheets to work, but I managed to work around this via the Defined names functionality, as @GregoryNEUT helpfully suggested.

Here is a short snippet illustrating this, in case anyone finds their way to this thread

// Define a named range of cells in the remote worksheet
let cellRangeName = "myCellRange";
for (let i = 2; i <= rowCount; i++) {
  // We set all cells to the same name, which creates a named range
  remoteSheet.getCell(`A${i}`).name = cellRangeName;
}

// ...

// Use the named range in my current sheet formula
sheet.fillFormula(`B2:B${rowCount}`, `${cellRangeName}*2`, () => 0);

[abhishek-raj]

I faced the same issue, went through the most part of the code of exceljs trying to fix it, seems it correctly generates the xml.

I corrected it by using (!) instead of (.)

Eg.

sheet.getCell(‘A2’).dataValidation = { type: ‘list’, allowBlank: true, formulae: [‘Company!A2:A500’], showInputMessage: true, promptTitle: ‘Company’, prompt: ‘In which company the user is in.’, };

Excel just shows a . but we need to use ! instead.