XlsIO doesn't respect Excel's "Allow users to edit ranges" option when loading excel files

[Muhammad Yaseen]

I want the users to be able to mark certain areas to be locked in their templates, but it seems that Xlsio sets Range.CellStyle.Locked property to false by default even if you mark the range to be editable in Excel. Is there a way to fix that?

Here is my code:

ExcelEngine excelEngine = new ExcelEngine();

var file = await StorageFile.GetFileFromApplicationUriAsync(new Uri("ms-appx:///Assets/Template.xlsx", UriKind.Absolute));

//Loads or open an existing workbook

IWorkbook workbook = await excelEngine.Excel.Workbooks.OpenAsync(file);

workbook.Version = ExcelVersion.Excel2013;

workbook.Protect(true, true, "111");

foreach(var sheet in workbook.Worksheets)

{

sheet.Protect("111");

}

//Initializes FileSavePicker

FileSavePicker savePicker = new FileSavePicker();

savePicker.SuggestedStartLocation = PickerLocationId.Desktop;

savePicker.SuggestedFileName = "output";

savePicker.FileTypeChoices.Add("Excel Files", new List() { ".xlsx" });

//Creates a storage file from FileSavePicker

StorageFile outputStorageFile = await savePicker.PickSaveFileAsync();

//Saves changes to the specified storage file

await workbook.SaveAsAsync(outputStorageFile);

Attachment: XlsioProtectRepro_90df710e.zip

[Abirami Varadharajan]

Hi Muhammad,

We don’t have support for “Allow users to edit ranges” feature. However, you can edit the desired range in the worksheet by unlocking it(i.e., by setting Locked property of CellStyle to false). We have modified the sample as per your requirement which can be downloaded from following link. 

Sample Link: http://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/support/directtrac/general/ze/Modified_Sample-804271761.zip  

Kindly try and let us know if this helps at your end. 

Regards, 

Abirami