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Save and Dispose Reports in 8.6

Hello,

   I am having trouble using some report generation vi's in LabVIEW 8.6.  I believe a strategy that used to work in 8.5 no longer works in 8.6.  Maybe the method is flawed or maybe something has changed in 8.6 that I don't know about, but I'm hoping for some help.

   Specifically, I would like to use an Excel file as a template for a report, fill in some data, and save the report.  I need to be able to use the same file as both the template (source) file and as the save-to (destination) file. In 8.5, I was able to do this by using Save Report to File.vi and Dispose Report.vi.  In 8.6, I have been able to come up with a flow that works, using only Dispose Report.vi, but I would like to know what is different between 8.5 and 8.6 that requires this workaround.  It would be preferable to be able to use the same sequence of vi's whether I'm saving back to the same template file or to a new one. More details in the attached .vi. 

   Thanks in advance,

Megan

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Hi,

 

Thanks for the post.

 

With Report generation Toolkit 1.1.3 and LabVIEW 8.6 two major things happened.

 

1) It withdrew support for an older version of office (2000).

 

2) The strucutre of the toolkit changed - classes were introduced. 

 

Kind Regards, 

Kind Regards
James Hillman
Applications Engineer 2008 to 2009 National Instruments UK & Ireland
Loughborough University UK - 2006 to 2011
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