# Send data from excel to dashboard

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/send-data-from-excel-to-dashboard/21792>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [16 February 2020 13:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/send-data-from-excel-to-dashboard/21792 "2020-02-16T13:23:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Amranii1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Amranii1](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Amranii1)\
**Post date:** [16 February 2020 13:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/send-data-from-excel-to-dashboard/21792/1 "2020-02-16T13:23:06Z")

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Plaise. How to send data from excel to dashboard

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**Author:** ![hotNipi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/hotnipi/32/383_2.png) [@hotNipi](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hotNipi)\
**Post date:** [16 February 2020 13:34 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/send-data-from-excel-to-dashboard/21792/2 "2020-02-16T13:34:40Z")

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Save your excel file as CSV and then you can read that file using the `file-in` node and parse the data with `csv` node.

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/9/f/9f5fe987dfad2cf4ac84a709ba474ce0a1e18bd5.png)

And then it depends of the data what will be the best choice of nodes to visualize the data on dashboard.

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [16 February 2020 13:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/send-data-from-excel-to-dashboard/21792/3 "2020-02-16T13:40:12Z")

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There is also node-red-contrib-spreadsheet-in though I cannot vouch for whether it works or not.