Format Conversion

XLSX Formula Injector

Fill formulas down worksheet columns and optionally lock formula cells for protected, template-friendly Excel workbooks

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Quick start

Call this tool from your code in three languages.

cURL

# 1) Upload each file first → returns { filePath }
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/upload/xlsx-formula-injector' \
  -F 'file=@/path/to/workbookFile.ext'

# 2) Call the tool with the returned filePath values
curl -X POST 'https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/xlsx-formula-injector' \
  -F 'workbookFile=/public/samples/xlsx/workbook-sales.xlsx' \
  -F 'formulaRulesJson=[
  {
    "sheetName": "Sheet1",
    "targetColumn": "D",
    "startRow": 2,
    "endRow": 12,
    "formulaTemplate": "=IF($A{{row}}=\"\",\"\",$B{{row}}*$C{{row}})",
    "numberFormat": "#,##0.00",
    "styleSourceRow": 2
  }
]' \
  -F 'editableRangesJson=[
  {
    "sheetName": "Sheet1",
    "range": "A2:C12"
  }
]' \
  -F 'protectSheets=true' \
  -F 'lockFormulaCells=true' \
  -F 'hideFormulaText=false' \
  -F 'sheetPassword='

API reference

Send a POST request with your inputs as JSON. File parameters require a separate upload first.

Endpoint

HTTP

POST https://api.elysiatools.com/en/api/tools/xlsx-formula-injector

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
workbookFile	fileupload required	Yes	—
formulaRulesJson	textarea	Yes	—
editableRangesJson	textarea	No	—
protectSheets	checkbox	No	—
lockFormulaCells	checkbox	No	—
hideFormulaText	checkbox	No	—
sheetPassword	text	No	—

File-type parameters must be uploaded first via POST /upload/xlsx-formula-injector, then the returned filePath is passed to the corresponding file field.

Response format

File result

JSON

{
  "filePath": "/public/processing/randomid.ext",
  "fileName": "output.ext",
  "contentType": "application/octet-stream",
  "size": 1024,
  "metadata": {
    "key": "value"
  },
  "error": "Error message (optional)",
  "message": "Notification message (optional)"
}

MCP integration

Add this tool to your Model Context Protocol server so AI agents can list and call it.

Server configuration

Add this block to your MCP client configuration:

mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-xlsx-formula-injector": {
      "name": "xlsx-formula-injector",
      "description": "Fill formulas down worksheet columns and optionally lock formula cells for protected, template-friendly Excel workbooks",
      "baseUrl": "https://api.elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=xlsx-formula-injector",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

List available tools

After connecting to the SSE endpoint, list the exposed tools:

tools/list

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/list"
}

Call this tool

Invoke the tool by its id, passing arguments built from its parameters:

tools/call

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 2,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "xlsx-formula-injector",
    "arguments": {
  "workbookFile": "/public/samples/xlsx/workbook-sales.xlsx",
  "formulaRulesJson": "[\n  {\n    \"sheetName\": \"Sheet1\",\n    \"targetColumn\": \"D\",\n    \"startRow\": 2,\n    \"endRow\": 12,\n    \"formulaTemplate\": \"=IF($A{{row}}=\\\"\\\",\\\"\\\",$B{{row}}*$C{{row}})\",\n    \"numberFormat\": \"#,##0.00\",\n    \"styleSourceRow\": 2\n  }\n]",
  "editableRangesJson": "[\n  {\n    \"sheetName\": \"Sheet1\",\n    \"range\": \"A2:C12\"\n  }\n]",
  "protectSheets": true,
  "lockFormulaCells": true,
  "hideFormulaText": false,
  "sheetPassword": ""
}
  }
}

Chain multiple tools in one session with a comma-separated toolId list, e.g. /mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp (max 20).

File parameters accept a public file URL only (https://…). Local paths, data: URIs, and Base64 strings are not supported.

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