Disable Pivot Table Ribbons with C++

Pivot table-based reports are useful but prone to error if target users do not have detailed knowledge of Excel to configure these reports. In these circumstances, organizations will want to restrict users from being able to change a pivot table-based report. Common pivot table features like adding additional filters, slicers, fields, or changing the order of certain things in the report are mostly not recommended for every user. On the other hand, these users shall also be able to refresh the report and use existing filters or slicers. Aspose.Cells has provided this ability to developers for restricting users from changing these reports while creating them. For this purpose, Excel provides a feature to disable the pivot table ribbon, and the same is provided by Aspose.Cells. Developers can disable the ribbon which contains controls to modify these reports.

Disable Pivot Table Ribbon using PivotTable.EnableWizard

The following code demonstrates this feature by accessing a pivot table from a sheet and then setting GetEnableWizard() to false. A sample pivot table file can be downloaded from this link.

#include <iostream>
#include "Aspose.Cells.h"

using namespace Aspose::Cells;

int main()
{
    Aspose::Cells::Startup();

    // Source directory path
    U16String srcDir(u"..\\Data\\01_SourceDirectory\\");

    // Output directory path
    U16String outDir(u"..\\Data\\02_OutputDirectory\\");

    // Path of input excel file
    U16String inputFilePath = srcDir + u"pivot_table_test.xlsx";

    // Path of output excel file
    U16String outputFilePath = outDir + u"out.xlsx";

    // Create workbook
    Workbook wb(inputFilePath);

    // Access the pivot table in the first sheet
    PivotTable pt = wb.GetWorksheets().Get(0).GetPivotTables().Get(0);

    // Disable ribbon for this pivot table
    pt.SetEnableWizard(false);

    // Save output file
    wb.Save(outputFilePath);

    std::cout << "Pivot table ribbon disabled successfully!" << std::endl;

    Aspose::Cells::Cleanup();
}