Creation of Refnum Automation to Excel
Hello
So I've worked to read Excel documents with report generation tool, but realized the document I was trying to read is password protected and requires an update link (PivotTable).
Searching I found an accessory useful toolkit Joe_H (post #2) http://forums.ni.com/t5/BreakPoint/Excel-Board/m-p/379682 . I try to recreate its VI, but there are some things I don't understand. (I started only working with refnums & variants)
My Questions:
1. referring to my 'refnum.png' attachment, black refum automation is copied from example VI and purple is what I tried to do. They have the same ActiveX class, but purple throws an exception error 3005. I can't find the refnum of the black arrow.
Googling this error, gives a solution, but I can not understand how to use or if it applies to me. http://forums.NI.com/T5/LabVIEW/error-3005-occurred-at-Automation-open-using-ActiveX-RichText-box/TD-...
2 referring to 'excel.png' for the node invoke - workbooks, how is a person knows how to use the data types variant? For example, WriteResPassword I just tried to use a string and it worked. I noticed that the help info gets thinner when working with property/Invoke nodes.
Thanks for your time.
I don't know why the difference in colors between the refnums, but I doubt that's the problem. Looks like it's just an artifact weird opening a VI from an earlier version of LabVIEW. If you convert this refnum control to a constant and then again to a control, it will turn pink, but I guess it will always work. Can you show the code showing you how you use this refnum?
As mentioned nyc, you refer to the Microsoft documentation to determine what kind of data for wire entry variant. There is no documentation of LabVIEW because it is not a component of LabVIEW.
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