We were able to crew an extra person on site to keep a statbook for our local basketball productions.
How could I best utilize this info?
Google sheet w/API Key, “shared” excel sheet, or a stats website via xml datalinq? I only know how to config the google sheet, I have a lot to learn.
Open for any suggestions, thanks for the input!
From what I’ve read in the forums, this may be version specific.
I believe you need the recent version of Xpression/Project server to do Google sheets.
Otherwise you need to use excel.
Can someone confirm if I am right or wrong?
XPression version 11.5 supports Google Sheets natively and you can see a tutorial video here: XPression U Google Sheets
If you are running an older version of XPression let us know.
Hopefully this will help, one of our IT guys figured out that we could install the google drive app on the Xpression machine, and use a real Excel sheet with datalinq. Google drive apparently tricks excel into sharing with datalinq better than Microsoft intends 
-Jay Cofield, Ph.D.
Professor of Mass Communication
The University of Montevallo
205-665-6624
cofieldj@montevallo.edu
As soon as I saw that I checked the version, its 10.5 so yeah its like you guys are saying, specific to version. I built the sheet and went to add it to datalinq, it only gives XML or JSON, no text option.
I can drive the suggestion of getting the google drive app downloaded and using excel with it?
Thanks for the input!
We have the google drive app loaded on our Xpression Studio PC, and put our excel file in there.
The Drive app lets google drive show up as a mounted drive, in our case G:\
Then we were able to share that excel .xlsx file with others to populate like a normal excel shared file Our datalinq was pointed to the version on our studio PC G:, and whenever drive would update the shared file- usually once every minute or so, it would be in datalinq. For stats you might have to refresh or find a way to make it update quicker. And we were able to use the AODB excel thing. It worked out pretty well.
-Jay Cofield, Ph.D.
Professor of Mass Communication
The University of Montevallo
205-665-6624
cofieldj@montevallo.edu