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I have been trying to use ActiveX classes and write to multiple excel sheets.

I was able to create a new workbook but it seems like I keep on getting a run-time error...

Error 98 occurred at Unknown System Error in ExcelWritingDataToMultipleSheet.vi

Possible reason(s):

LabVIEW: Incorrect file type. Attempted to read from or write to a file of a type incompatible with the operation. This normally is a user data file.

I don't really understand the concept of variant types.

If somebody can point out how to fix this, that would be great... Thank you.

ExcelWritingDataToMultipleSheet.vi

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Hi,

the error occures because of using the wrong ActiveX class constant at type input of the 'Variant To Data' primitive. Select the class 'Excel._Worksheet' and the conversion will work properly.

Now your example will write values to cell A2 of the worksheet with index 2. If you want to write more than 1 value, you have two possibilities:

- explicitly set '_Worksheet.Range' to a single cell (Cell1 input) which you want to overwrite with the next scalar value. This for each of your values. Advantage: values can be spread all over the sheet. Disadvantage: slower.

- set both inputs, Cell1 and Cell2, of '_Worksheet.Range' to a reasonable value, depending on the amount of data within your data array, to write all the data at once to your sheet. Advantage: faster. Disadvantage: values are written on block.

Regards,

Frank

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I have on different projects had to use Excel ActiveX. My experience is: avoid it, you will get into trouble. The troubles are not unmanageable but frustrating, especially if you need to support different versions of Excel, different languages/localisations, and even different installation options. Maybe you know that you need to use ActiveX, but if you do not, consider using for example a tab-delimited text file, which Excel can read.

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Indeed. Active-X Excel reports are a headache. If your boss can spring $500 for the Report Generator Toolkit from NI it will save you tons of grief and time. I am convinced that the report toolkit will pay for itself in saved time after the first couple of times you use it. Otherwise, like thols said, use a simple tab-delimited text file. Another option is to use the standard report generator VI's and make HTML documents you can save on your network.

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Wow, thank you for all the response.

It is quite an headache to try do something quite simple.

I may consider using a comma delimited file instead...

Still working my possibilities.

Thanks for the suggestions, FrankB and thank you for the code revision, ooth...

It's very clear what I did wrong.

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Wow, thank you for all the response.

It is quite an headache to try do something quite simple.

I may consider using a comma delimited file instead...

Still working my possibilities.

Thanks for the suggestions, FrankB and thank you for the code revision, ooth...

It's very clear what I did wrong.

You can use ADO to open, read and write to Excel spreadsheets. See this post.

Place your raw data from LabVIEW on a separate sheet, then reference the raw data from another sheet to perform calculations or chart the data.

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Me also, I had tons of trouble with the Excel reporting.

After a few days I quit.

Now I save to csv (raw data) and jpg (export of graphs) and later on, I create a nice HTML document.

At least the HTML code is "open", and reads +-the same way in all browsers.

The HTML page links to pictures, text, numbers, colors, layout, all generated by the VI.

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We're some labview beginners having a similar problem. Maybe you guys can help us out.

We're building a similar program just for reading the data out of two keithley 2000 DMMs and making a voltage drop measurement. We're trying to characterize a diode as a project, but we can't get the data to export in a reasonable fashion. We end up getting 1 data point every second or so and the program writes it as its own file. We want a continuous datasheet so that we can analyze the data further.

I've attached it so that ya'll can tweak it as necessary or just give us any pointers.

BJK_3-way.vi

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