Sometimes Excel document may contain hidden columns and rows (as shown in the image below). GroupDocs.Viewer doesn’t render hidden columns and rows by default. However, there may be the case when you want to control the inclusion of hidden content in the rendering results.
GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud provides RenderHiddenRows and RenderHiddenColumns options in SpreadsheetOptions class which enables rendering hidden rows and columns as shown in the following code samples.
API Usage
There are steps that usage of GroupDocs.Viewer Cloud consists of:
Upload input document into cloud storage
Render document or get document info
Download rendered document from storage
Steps 1 and 3 are storage operations, please refer to this File API documentation for usage details.
Swagger UI lets you call this REST API directly from the browser.
cURL example
# First get JSON Web Token# Please get your Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud/applications. Kindly place Client Id in "client_id" and Client Secret in "client_secret" argument.curl -v "https://api.groupdocs.cloud/connect/token"\
-X POST \
-d "grant_type=client_credentials&client_id=xxxx&client_secret=xxxx"\
-H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"\
-H "Accept: application/json"# cURL example to get document informationcurl -v "https://api.groupdocs.cloud/v2.0/viewer/view"\
-X POST \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"\
-H "Accept: application/json"\
-H "Authorization: Bearer <jwt token>"-d "{
'FileInfo': {
'FilePath': 'SampleFiles/with_hidden_row_and_column.xlsx'
},
'ViewFormat': 'HTML',
'RenderOptions': {
'SpreadsheetOptions': {
'RenderHiddenColumns' : true,
'RenderHiddenRows' : true
}
}
}"
The API is completely independent of your operating system, database system or development language. We provide and support API SDKs in many development languages in order to make it even easier to integrate. You can see our available SDKs list here.
// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-dotnet-samplesstringMyClientSecret="";// Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloudstringMyClientId="";// Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloudvarconfiguration=newConfiguration(MyClientId,MyClientSecret);varapiInstance=newViewApi(configuration);varviewOptions=newViewOptions{FileInfo=newFileInfo{FilePath="SampleFiles/with_hidden_row_and_column.xlsx"},ViewFormat=ViewOptions.ViewFormatEnum.HTML,RenderOptions=newHtmlOptions{SpreadsheetOptions=newSpreadsheetOptions{RenderHiddenColumns=true,RenderHiddenRows=true}}};varresponse=apiInstance.CreateView(newCreateViewRequest(viewOptions));
// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-php-samples
useGroupDocs\Viewer\Model;useGroupDocs\Viewer\Model\Requests;$ClientId="";// Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
$ClientSecret="";// Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
$configuration=newGroupDocs\Viewer\Configuration();$configuration->setAppSid($ClientId);$configuration->setAppKey($ClientSecret);$apiInstance=newGroupDocs\Viewer\ViewApi($configuration);$viewOptions=newModel\ViewOptions();$fileInfo=newModel\FileInfo();$fileInfo->setFilePath("SampleFiles/with_hidden_row_and_column.xlsx");$viewOptions->setFileInfo($fileInfo);$viewOptions->setViewFormat(Model\ViewOptions::VIEW_FORMAT_HTML);$renderOptions=newModel\HtmlOptions();$spreadsheetOptions=newModel\SpreadsheetOptions();$spreadsheetOptions->setRenderHiddenColumns(true);$spreadsheetOptions->setRenderHiddenRows(true);$renderOptions->setSpreadsheetOptions($spreadsheetOptions);$viewOptions->setRenderOptions($renderOptions);$request=newRequests\CreateViewRequest($viewOptions);$response=$apiInstance->createView($request);
// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-java-samples
stringMyClientSecret="";// Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
stringMyClientId="";// Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
Configurationconfiguration=newConfiguration(MyClientId,MyClientSecret);ViewApiapiInstance=newViewApi(configuration);FileInfofileInfo=newFileInfo();fileInfo.setFilePath("SampleFiles/with_hidden_row_and_column.xlsx");ViewOptionsviewOptions=newViewOptions();viewOptions.setFileInfo(fileInfo);viewOptions.setViewFormat(ViewFormatEnum.HTML);HtmlOptionsrenderOptions=newHtmlOptions();SpreadsheetOptionsspreadsheetOptions=newSpreadsheetOptions();spreadsheetOptions.setRenderHiddenColumns(true);spreadsheetOptions.setRenderHiddenRows(true);renderOptions.setSpreadsheetOptions(spreadsheetOptions);viewOptions.setRenderOptions(renderOptions);ViewResultresponse=apiInstance.createView(newCreateViewRequest(viewOptions));
# For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-ruby-samplesrequire'groupdocs_viewer_cloud'$client_id="XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"# Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud$client_secret="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"# Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloudapiInstance=GroupDocsViewerCloud::ViewApi.from_keys($client_id,$client_secret)viewOptions=GroupDocsViewerCloud::ViewOptions.newviewOptions.file_info=GroupDocsViewerCloud::FileInfo.newviewOptions.file_info.file_path="SampleFiles/with_hidden_row_and_column.xlsx"viewOptions.view_format="HTML"viewOptions.render_options=GroupDocsViewerCloud::HtmlOptions.newviewOptions.render_options.spreadsheet_options=GroupDocsViewerCloud::SpreadsheetOptions.newviewOptions.render_options.spreadsheet_options.render_hidden_columns=trueviewOptions.render_options.spreadsheet_options.render_hidden_rows=truerequest=GroupDocsViewerCloud::CreateViewRequest.new(viewOptions)response=apiInstance.create_view(request)
// For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-node-samples
global.viewer#require("groupdocs-viewer-cloud");global.clientId="XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX";// Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
global.clientSecret="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX";// Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloud
global.viewApi=viewer_cloud.ViewApi.fromKeys(clientId,clientSecret);letfileInfo=newviewer_cloud.FileInfo();fileInfo.filePath="SampleFiles/with_hidden_row_and_column.xlsx";letviewOptions=newviewer_cloud.ViewOptions();viewOptions.fileInfo=fileInfo;viewOptions.viewFormat=viewer_cloud.ViewOptions.ViewFormatEnum.HTML;viewOptions.renderOptions=newviewer_cloud.HtmlOptions();viewOptions.renderOptions.spreadsheetOptions=newviewer_cloud.SpreadsheetOptions();viewOptions.renderOptions.spreadsheetOptions.renderHiddenColumns=true;viewOptions.renderOptions.spreadsheetOptions.renderHiddenRows=true;letrequest=newviewer_cloud.CreateViewRequest(viewOptions);letresponse=awaitviewApi.createView(request);
# For complete examples and data files, please go to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer-cloud/groupdocs-viewer-cloud-python-samplesimportgroupdocs_viewer_cloudclient_id="XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"# Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloudclient_secret="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"# Get Client Id and Client Secret from https://dashboard.groupdocs.cloudapiInstance=groupdocs_viewer_cloud.ViewApi.from_keys(client_id,client_secret)view_options=groupdocs_viewer_cloud.ViewOptions()view_options.file_info=groupdocs_viewer_cloud.FileInfo()view_options.file_info.file_path="SampleFiles/with_hidden_row_and_column.xlsx"view_options.view_format="HTML"view_options.render_options=groupdocs_viewer_cloud.HtmlOptions()view_options.render_options.spreadsheet_options=groupdocs_viewer_cloud.SpreadsheetOptions()view_options.render_options.spreadsheet_options.render_hidden_columns=Trueview_options.render_options.spreadsheet_options.render_hidden_rows=Truerequest=groupdocs_viewer_cloud.CreateViewRequest(view_options)response=apiInstance.create_view(request)
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