Does the Report Generation Toolkit support Office 2007?

[Philip_Courtois]

With the hot-out-of-the-oven Office 2007, Microsoft has done a complete overhaul of the Office environment that we all have spent many years learning to perfection (well.. almost). Lucky those who got a head start as part of the Office Beta program.

Well, NI claims that the current version of the LabVIEW Report Generation Toolkit supports "Microsoft Office 2000 (Word, Excel, and Graph) or later" and therefore literally also the new Office 2007.

I doubt that the ActiveX API has remained unchanged when developing Office 2007, so let's use this thread to uncover the experience you have with calling Office 2007 applications using the LabVIEW Report Generation Toolkit.

Anyone???

[Darren]

We are currently working on a maintenance release for the Report Generation Toolkit to support Office 2007.  You can install the current toolkit with Office 2007, but you will have some problems.  If you copy the four LLBs from the Compatibility\Office 2003\vi.lib\addons\_office folder on your Report Generation Toolkit CD to the corresponding vi.lib\addons\_office location in your LabVIEW folder after installing the toolkit, things will work for the most part.  But you won't have 100% compatibility until the maintenance release is done.

-D

[falkpl]

Is this still an issue?  I am developing an application using office 2007 and office 2000 using the toolkit and some simple excel communication.  What is the best approach.  I have LV 8.5 and Office 2007 on a vista machine it has to also work on client machines with 2000.  Can this be done?

[gammalight]

I am experiencing problems with excel 2007 installed on my computer.  I compiled my code on a machine with 2003 and I get errors when ran on a machine with 2007.  The error I get says "file still open", or something to that effect, I believe the error code is 5.  My report writing routine works fine with 2003 but not so well with 2007.  What I am doing in the code is creating an excel document and converting it to a pdf file.  Somewhere after creating the excel doc the program crashes.  I am going to try and recompile my code on a machine that has 2007 on it and see what happeneds.

Message Edited by gammalight on 12-07-2007 08:57 AM