BO Explorer add excel source

Hello everybody,
I allready install BO Enterprise XI 3.1, and have access to polestar via the port 8080, and that all is good, but i have a requirement to add into the Source box in the Manage Spaces the excel spreadsheet source, because we only find the universe conections sources.
Do i need to install any component more?
Do i have to install or configure something to let it visible?

Hi,
on the home tab of Explorer you should see the option to upload a spreadsheet "on-demand".
the alternative is to save the Excel file to your SAP BusinessObjects server and then the spreadsheet will be listed when you go to the manage spaces tab.
Ingo

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