Rep gen toolkit excel hyperlinks length

I am using report generation toolkit and creating hyperlinks from a cell in summary file to a a cell in a raw data file. The problem is the hyperlink is limited in the number of characters it can have.
Any ideas of a workaround? I could move my raw data files up a few directories but I really don't want to do that.
Im using excel 2002
Brian

Hi Brian,
How many characters are you using in the path? Also what is your operating system?
Thanks and have a great day.
Esmail Hamdan | Applications Engineering | National Instruments

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Report generation toolkit excel, decimal?

Hello!
I have problem with the report generation toolkit excel!
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Ex. In labview = 0.0458943 when i send it to excel = 0.046.
I use Excel easy table.vi to transfer my array, should I use someting else?
Ive already tryid to increase the decimal in excel but i doesent work.
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Johan1300,
It sounds like you are writing a 2-D Array of doubles to excel. The Excel Easy Table.vi converts numerics to strings before writing data to excel. It is written to always use 3 decimal places. You need to convert your 2-D array of doubles to strings before writing the info to excel. Here are a couple of ways to make the conversion. The top method is based on how the Excel Easy Table.vi makes the conversion. Note that in both examples the format string constant sets the number of decimal places to 8.
Message Edited by Wayne.C on 04-08-2009 09:12 AM
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Report Generation Toolkit Excel errors and Libraries, Classes

Hello All,
I'm using the Report Generation toolkit Excel functions to handle some data and create graphs. I'm running into problems with the Add Worksheet.vi. At the very start of the vi, it closes the reference to Shapes. Occasionally, the Close Ref will throw an error. I haven't pinned down the exact cause yet (probably an invalid reference). The error itself wouldn't be a problem. Under other circumstances I would choose to ignore it and continue on. The problem is, this is stored in a Class Library controlled by NI.
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Maybe it's just my inexperience with Classes, but I just don't see an elegant solution to this. Ultimately I'd like to copy the library off to somewhere else and put it under Source Control so I can make changes and additions to it (NI folks - providing a password to unlock the lib would be helpful...). Does anyone have suggestions on how I can accomplish this?
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Hi Ben,
Sorry about the first post. After re-reading it, it sounds more like a frustrated rant than a request for help.
I've attached a simplified vi to try to illustrate the problem I'm having. I'm running Excel 2007. Please open the vi, then open Excel Add Worksheet.vi. At the start of the vi, Close Ref for Excel.Shapes occasionally throws an error. So far, I have not been able to consistently reproduce the error, so I can't really troubleshoot it. As I recall, the error code is 1045. The error is carried through the rest of the vi, causing invalid references to be written to Excel._Worksheet and Excel.Shapes, going out to NI_report.ctl.
So, here are the issues I'm running into (other than the error itself):
1.)Short of closing and reopening the file, there is no way to recover from the error. After the error, there is an invalid reference in Excel._Worksheet. There is no vi available to regenerate references in NI_report.ctl. I could easily write a vi to start from Excel._Application and re-read them, but because NI_report.ctl is in a Class library (controlled and passworded by NI), I can't add the vi to the library.
2.) I found that I could ignore the error by wiring around it. If I disconnect Error Out from Excel.Shapes Close Ref and wire Error In from Excel.Sheets.Count to the Error In of the Close Ref, everything works fine. Under other circumstances, I'd save this with a new vi name (because functionality changed) and continue on. But, because the vi is part of a Class library (controlled and passworded by NI), I can't do this. I can save the vi with the modifications (because Excel Add Worksheet.vi is not passworded), but if I pass the source off to someone else, they will have to make the same changes on their installation of the NI Report Generation Toolkit.
Again, I can't reproduce the error with any regularity. I've run the example vi I provided a few times and everything seems to work fine. If I come up with something, I'll repost. If you (or anyone) has an idea of what could be failing or if they've seen the problem, I'd appreciate a comment.
Thanks again,
Doug
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Application doesn't work after build (database toolkit and report gen toolkit).

I wrote an application using database toolkit and report gen toolkit to retrieve some data from a database, put into a Word doc, save the Word doc and print it. It works fine when I run the vi, but when I build and run it, it does nothing. I have tried all of the settings in Projec Manager that I think might help but it still won't work right. Labview 8.2.1, XP.
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*& Report ZNEGI17                                                     *
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H_MAP TYPE OLE2_OBJECT, " workbook
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START-OF-SELECTION.
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ULINE (61).
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(4) 'Nr'(002) COLOR COL_HEADING NO-GAP, SY-VLINE NO-GAP,
(20) 'Von'(003) COLOR COL_HEADING NO-GAP, SY-VLINE NO-GAP,
(20) 'Nach'(004) COLOR COL_HEADING NO-GAP, SY-VLINE NO-GAP,
(8) 'Zeit'(005) COLOR COL_HEADING NO-GAP, SY-VLINE NO-GAP.
ULINE /(61).
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IT_SPFLI-CONNID COLOR COL_NORMAL NO-GAP, SY-VLINE NO-GAP,
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Pieterse isn't really a very common name in NL, they seem to originate from the
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