Non-embedded graph in Excel report gen

I am using the Labview report generator to generate excel files of large batches of data. Is there a way to link the graph to data in the excel file rather than have it embedded in the graph itself? I need to be able to, for example, update a cell later on in the excel file and have the graph automatically update. Is there a way to create the graph by passing in an array of cell IDs rather than an array of numerics?
Thanks!
Alex

Hi Alex,
Yes, your explanation does verify what I thought you are trying to do.
Unfortunately, we do not have some complex VI in LabVIEW that creates all of the features of a regular old excel graph (there would be a lot of things to input, just imagine).
I have a couple suggestions. The first suggestion is to try to either make a macro or find a macro for excel that programmatically sets up all of that graph stuff. If you have this macro, you can use LabVIEW to run it, pretty straightforward: http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/372120A-01/lvoffice/excel_run_macro/ and of course, if you were creating the data in LabVIEW, you can use Write to Spreadsheet to insert the data into the excel file first.
The second suggestion is to use ActiveX controls. ActiveX is something that supports windows software, so you could go through and program each action in excel programmatically using ActiveX controls. There are example in the NI Example Finder; here is one example using ActiveX for Excel: https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-5780
Best of luck,
Ryan C.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

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> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have experienced (and solved) this behaviour?
>
> I've been using the report generation toolkit to build word report without
> problem. I've also solved a lot of problems in the excel part of the
toolkit
> (e.g. building graphs with >20000 points). It finally works in development
> environment.
>
> Now when I install the executable (, with the installer) the word reports
> still work, but the excel report don't. The executable does run on a
> different system, but the excel versions are the same (both Excel 2000).
>
> I have copied the excel library in the data directory of the executable.
>
> The following error is generated:
>
> -2147319784
> Old format or invalid type library
> Excel_Open.vi
>
> This is the first report generation vi that is called. I use it to open a
> temp
late.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Wiebe.
>
>

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MICROSOFT WORD OR MICROSOFT EXCEL 를 REPORT VEIWER로 설정하는 방법
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PURPOSE
MICROSOFT WORD OR MICROSOFT EXCEL 를 REPORT VEIWER로 설정하고자 할때
참고하는 문서
Explanation
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