Linking Captivate to Excel?

Hi All,
We have developed an IT dashboard using Captivate 5.5 where systems are all in individual boxes and either showing as a Red, Amber, Green based on how much capacity is available on them. To update these right now is a manual process each month.
I have been asked whether or not a changes made to an excel spreadsheet can be directly linked to Adobe Captivate.
For example, if someone changes a system field in an excel sheet to RED, then can it be setup so that the corresponding box in the Captivate project also automatically change to RED? Is there a way to have linking between excel and captivate like this?
Any help would be most appreciated.
Cheers
Greg

There is no standard Captivate functionality to make this happen. However, you could probably pay an AS3 developer to create a widget for you that did this. No idea about costs.

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