topic Unsupported File Format in App Development https://community.qlik.com/t5/App-Development/Unsupported-File-Format/m-p/1119141#M19311 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Just tried making a new data connection to a folder on our server.&nbsp; It allows the path to be made but when I try an upload any excel docs from that folder, I get the following message "unsupported file format".&nbsp; Any ideas on how to troubleshoot or what I might be doing wrong?&nbsp; I've looked at a variety of posts related to this but don't understand how they resolved...</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P><P>Meg </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 16 Aug 2016 16:22:07 GMT 2016-08-16T16:22:07Z Unsupported File Format https://community.qlik.com/t5/App-Development/Unsupported-File-Format/m-p/1119141#M19311 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Just tried making a new data connection to a folder on our server.&nbsp; It allows the path to be made but when I try an upload any excel docs from that folder, I get the following message "unsupported file format".&nbsp; Any ideas on how to troubleshoot or what I might be doing wrong?&nbsp; I've looked at a variety of posts related to this but don't understand how they resolved...</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P><P>Meg </P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 16 Aug 2016 16:22:07 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/App-Development/Unsupported-File-Format/m-p/1119141#M19311 2016-08-16T16:22:07Z Re: Unsupported File Format https://community.qlik.com/t5/App-Development/Unsupported-File-Format/m-p/1119142#M19312 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I think the file-format is really wrong. For excel there are two different formats - an older one with (Biff, ...) for xls-files and a newer one (OOXML, ...) for xls<STRONG>x</STRONG>-files.</P><P></P><P>- Marcus</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Aug 2016 05:23:33 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/App-Development/Unsupported-File-Format/m-p/1119142#M19312 marcus_sommer 2016-08-17T05:23:33Z Re: Unsupported File Format https://community.qlik.com/t5/App-Development/Unsupported-File-Format/m-p/1119143#M19313 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Please check excel file extension or please upload the sample of your file so that i can help you.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 17 Aug 2016 11:29:42 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/App-Development/Unsupported-File-Format/m-p/1119143#M19313 ramkrishna86 2016-08-17T11:29:42Z Re: Unsupported File Format https://community.qlik.com/t5/App-Development/Unsupported-File-Format/m-p/1119144#M19314 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="font-size: 13.3333px;">I had the same issue, with just a regular .XLSX excel file. Not sure why the error occured, but i was able to load the data by going to the data manager and attaching the file. </SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:23:34 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/App-Development/Unsupported-File-Format/m-p/1119144#M19314 Anonymous 2016-09-19T15:23:34Z