Authentication of Excel reports in project server 2013

Please consider below scenario and advise me what I have missed or may require changes
I have configured Excel Services Account in my project server farm
Excel reports are browsed fine
Once Refresh All data is clicked end in an error :
We couldn’t load the Data Model. This may be because the Data Model in this workbook is damaged.
Access was denied by the external data source. The following connections failed to refresh: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have already given read permission on the application to the excel services account.
What could be the issue and how can I resolve this?
Regards, Syed Faizan ur Rehman, CBPM®,PRINCE2®, MCTS

Hi,
Did you add the apprpopriate urls to the trusted site locations?
See reference:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee662106(v=office.15).aspx
Hope this helps,
Guillaume Rouyre, MBA, MCP, MCTS |

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and then create a datasheet view matching the Exported list, but here I don't know how to import the list (copy / paste or whatsoever it can be done...)
Do you know how to do it, or do you know another/any method to solve this problem?
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José Espases

Hi José,
2 considerations:
The first one is that (as you experienced) one should not delete or rename any of the predefined columns in the risk/issue list. What you did is the right way, meaning keeping the native column as is and creating new ones based on the business needs. Finally
you just need to create view with the appropriate fields.
Then for importing risks from an Excel list, I can't test it right now, but you should have a datagrid view (MS Access type) allowing you pasting data from Excel.
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