Essbase with ActiveX Excel Session?

Does anybody know if there are limitations with the Add-in and an Active X excel session?

Do you mean that you created an instance of Excel using the VB CreateObject function (or a similar C++/.NET equivilent)? If so, I don't believe addin's get loaded when you create the object instance.
What you will to do is check the installed property of an addin object (Application.Addins.Item("essexcln").Installed) and install it if necessary. Note: the string "essexcln" may change from version to version of Essbase and perhaps even in the installation. In fact, I have never seen another installation (other than my laptop I am writing this on) that used that string). It is essentially the string you see in the Tools, Addins dialog and more typically is something like "Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server" or something like that.
Tim Tow
Oracle ACE
Applied OLAP, Inc

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