Multiple installs of Office Add-in

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Brendan Broughton
Brendan Broughton Active Partner
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Is it possible to have multiple versions of the Office Add-in installed?  As a BOARD partner and Certified MS Excel experts we are often asked to help our BOARD clients develop Excel based reports utilising the Office Add-in.


The issue is that not every client is running the same version of BOARD (due to their own internal policies on upgrades etc.), and we are often running a different version of BOARD on our machine to the client.

 

This poses problems when trying to use the Office Add-in as we need to uninstall and re-install the required version each time.

 

Accepting we cannot force all our clients to upgrade to the same version of BOARD at the same time, is there any way we can run multiple versions of the Office Add-in to save us having to uninstall/re-install each time?

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  • Zachary Turner
    Zachary Turner Employee
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    Hi!

    A few suggestions:

    I have seen success using the newest version of the Excel Add-in for BOARD 12.5 with other versions of BOARD 12. But the recommendation is for the BOARD version and the Excel Add-in version to match.

    If you need to frequently switch between BOARD 10 and BOARD 12, you will most likely need to uninstall and reinstall the Add-in on your local machine. One possible way to mitigate this: Create virtual machines with the different versions installed. I realize this is not ideal, but it might be practical for BOARD partners, particularly if cloud based VMs are created and can be shared with multiple users.

    This is still a challenge for our partners and clients alike. It's not unusual for 2 different versions of the Excel Add-in to be necessary for testing a new version in Sandbox before upgrading Production.

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