Error when using Report Generation Toolkit

Hi, all,
I am using Report generation toolkit to generate a report in either
word or excel format. But i even can't run the "new report.vi". It
returns an error code of "Bad variable type (-2147352568)", and seems
this error comes out from the "call by reference" after the
word/excel's "open VI reference". I have checked the folder
"C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW
6.1\vi.lib\addons\_office", there are "_exclsub.llb" and
"_wordsub.llb". The respect VIs are all inside. I don't know why there
is such error. Currently i am using labview 6.1, Microsoft office 2000
and Windows NT 4.0.
Your kindly help will be appreciated very much!!!
Thannk you in advance!! ^_^
Your sincerely,
celery

So, if you place just New Report.vi on the Block Diagram, wire in the report type and run it, it gives you this error? Do the example programs which ship with the toolset give this same error also? If so, I would just reinstall the toolset first and see if that helps. It sounds like the entire install is corrupt.
J.R. Allen

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Take a look at this Knowledge Base article and see if if helps.
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I am using report generation toolkit 1.1 with Labview 7.0 and Office 2003 professional. The create new report VI opens Excel but throws error (-2147167262- from automation open VI) when I try to open MS word. please help...

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Hi Leo22,
Does this error occur if you use any of the example programs that come shipped with LabVIEW? I would try opening one of the examples that write data to Word and see if those give you an error. Also, have you tried just putting down a New Report.VI and change the report type to Word? If this simple vi (that's all you need to open Word) breaks, I would check to see if there are any instances of Word still open. Check the task manager to see if any word processes are still open. There should not be a problem accessing Word 2003 from LabVIEW 7.0. If neither of these solutions work, please give some more detail about your application and we can research further. Thanks!
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Error 7 with Report Generation Toolkit

Hello Everyone,
I'm trying to generate an Excel sheet report for some readings using "Report Generation toolkit" But when trying to generate the report, the report generation part of code is executed and gives Error(7) and there is no report is generated.
The Code I use is atached in the following Link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9n4brimucsd0xts/Report%20Generation.rar
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I was able to download and open your compressed file. I unpacked it into a folder.
There are numerous peculiarities that lead me to ask "Are you trying to learn LabVIEW on your own, without a mentor and without training and guidance"? Here are some of the things that I noticed:
Although a Report Generation .lvproj, .aliases, and .lvlps file, the Project, when opened, was empty! Since Projects were added to LabVIEW, almost all development should take place in a Project, but you do not appear to be doing so.
You have an Event Loop (good) to handle pressing Start, Stop, and Report buttons. But instead of using Boolean controls with a Latch property and using a "Value Changed" event, you use Switch Until Released (which, so far, I've never used) and a Mouse Down Event. I suppose this could work, but I've never seen this pattern.
You are writing an Excel Report, but are not using the Excel-specific VIs (such as Excel Easy Table). Why (or Why Not)? The basic idea of an Excel Report is that you create the 2D text data you want to write into Excel, then with a few simple VIs, you open Excel, write the Table, and save the Report. In particular, you don't write out something that resembles the columns of the first few rows of a Spreadsheet (Date, Time, Test, etc.).
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Hello All,
I wrote code for reading data from Spectrum analyzer and also for writing in excel using report generation toolkit. When i run program values get read and excel sheet opens also but i cant see anything written in it.
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you try to select a specific worksheet what is not existing, therefore just select "Channel Power" (and not Power Channel) and it should work for you.
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Is LabVIEW and Office both German? Under Control Panel >> Regional Options >> General, is the language set to German? How about under Regional Options >> Input Locale? Reboot if you make any changes.
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Error Showing While Using Report Generation ToolKit VIs

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Hi,
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Problem building application using Report Generation Toolkit, LV 2011

I'm using LabVIEW 2011 under Windows 7.
I tried to use Application Builder to create an executable from a large body of code. One thing the application does is load VIs into a subpanel and run them.
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Hi again,
If you extract all files in the original zip attachment to a folder called C:\Testing on a Windows 7 machine running LV 2011, and then use the build script within the project file to build the application, you can run the application and see what happens. You can also play around with the build parameters, rebuild, run, and see what happens then. You can also open my VIs and see what I'm doing.
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