Adding Excel Services Apps to Business Intelligence Site in SharePoint 2013

This is part 3 of the series on creating a Business Intelligence Site on SharePoint 2013. We will focus on how to add Excel Services app to the site. Please refer back to previous part if you have not gone through it yet.

From the Actions menu, select Add an app.

Click Document Library icon.

Click Advanced Options.

This is to add Excel Services app to the site, so you can enter Excel as Name, put in some description. Select No for Document Version History and select Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet in the Document Template. Click Create.

From the Library ribbon, select Library Settings.

In General Settings, click on List name, description and navigation.

Select Yes at Display this document library on the Quick Launch and click Save.

If you return to the main Business Intelligence site, you can see Excel is shown on the Quick Launch at the right hand side.

We will look at adding Reporting Services (SSRS) apps next.