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# Excel Connection

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Check out the given illustration on how to create an Excel connection and associate it to a charting component.
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* Click the ***Data Connectors*** icon to display all the available data sources.
* Click the ***Create New Connection*** icon  provided next to the ***Excel*** option.
* A new connection gets added under the Excel connection type.
* The connection-specific details get displayed on the right side of the page.     &#x20;

![Creating an Excel Data Connection](/files/n2NWbjVKeJFfpFuavMCV)

* Configure the following information:
* ***Name*****:** Name the connection.
* ***Browse:*** Click the ***Browse*** icon to browse an Excel file.
* ***Sheet Name*****:** Select a specific sheet using the drop-down menu.
* ***Load at Start*****:** Enable this option to get the updated data from the data source before loading it into charts.
* The ***Field Set*** tab displays all the fields after establishing the data connection.

![Configuring the connection and getting the data](/files/ugfa9eChNoZhWRD2Z40k)

Select the ***Condition*** tab and provide a condition to be applied as a filter on the selected data by putting checkmarks in the given boxes.&#x20;

E.g., The selected Conditions for the ***Category*** field is ***Catalog***.

![The Condition tab](/files/uT02XZ0HdVbygRg1xi9O)

* Select the ***Script on Load***  icon to trigger a script to produce some action on the connection.