Report Generation (MS Word)

Is there a way to make the target MSWord document have landscape
orientation?
Thanks,
Peter

Use "Set Report Orientation.vi" in the Report Layout pallete.
- Dan

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Report Generation MS-Word always give error

Hi
I am using LV 2012 and MS Office 2010.
I am using report generation toolkit to have a customised output report.
When I specify output format as excel, I am able to get the desired result but when I specify output format as word, it always throws an error. I checked running the NI examples meant to give output in word but they all fail while the excel reports are perfect.
Please find attached an error code for one of the example Sample Report(word).vi
Please suggest the solution.
Regards,
Manbir
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error_doc.JPG ‏20 KB

We need to see the code in order to say "Here is the error" or "Try doing it this way". It also gives us something to try, ourselves. Do you know how to make "snippets", which are .PNG "pictures" of your code that you can simply put into the message using Insert Image? We can then drag this image into a LabVIEW Block Diagram, and voilà, working code!
BS

Report Generation Toolkit (Word) : How to use correctly bookmark and cross-reference without "Error! Reference source not found"

Hi,
I try to generate a report using a template. In my template I use some cross-reference to refer to one bookmark. For exemple in the first page I created a bookmark for my name and in the header I created a cross-reference refer to my name. The problems is when I run my VI the bookmark actualise perfectly but the cross-reference refer to the bookmark can't actualise with the same value and generates an error : "Error! Reference source not found".
Can somebody help me please!
Nki
Solved!
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Hi,
When i create the word template, the bookmaks and the cross-reference referred to the bookmark update correctely. The problem is when I try to change the bookmark using "report generation from template vi" the bookmark change but not the cross-reference and the error generated is "Error! Reference source not found".
I make coople reasherch and i think they have no solution for this because : "if the text in a heading referred to in a cross-reference is revised, the cross-reference to the heading may no longer work" (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/troubleshoot-cross-references-HP005189368.aspx).
To "resolved" this problem I create an other bookmark in the template who have the same value white the principle bookmark.
I use Labview 2011 and Micosoft office 2010.

Labview 2013 report generation toolkit word 2010 insert table problem

Hi,
I am currently evaluating LV2013 with respect to the report generation toolkit for use with word 2010. My Vi/program won't insert the correct table and gives me an error message. see below:-
Exception occured in Microsoft Word: The requested member of the collection does not exist.Help Path is wdmain11.chm and context 25421 in NI_ReportGenerationToolkit.lvlib:Word_Insert_Table.vi->NI_Word.lvclass:Append Text Table to Report.vi->Word Table save.vi
I have since run the following word example.vi provided by NI within LV2013 office examples:- Growable table.vi. this gives me the same error!
Exception occured in Microsoft Word: The requested member of the collection does not exist.Help Path is wdmain11.chm and context 25421 in NI_ReportGenerationToolkit.lvlib:Word_Insert_Table.vi->NI_Word.lvclass:Append Text Table to Report.vi->Growable table.vi
It would seem that regardless of my own Vi there is a fundamental problem in the office example vi.
I have found examples of a similar problem in LV2011/2012 but the work around code doesn't seem to match the LV2013 vi's code for a direct replacement.
Can anyone help/shed some light on this?
Thanks in advance,
Dan.

Because the upgrade of Word from 2007 to 2010 I needed to upgrade an existing application from LabVIEW 2009 to 2013. This didn't work because of the insert table error. I discovered that the problem is the vi called "Word_Insert_Table.vi" located in the ..Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2013\vi.lib\addons\_office\_wordsub.llb. There is a "Cut" command implemented, this command removes the created cell instead of clearing it. Therefore the table will be filled half and then returnes with an error. I have removed this command. I have posted the changed vi (LV 2013).
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Word_Insert_Table.vi ‏30 KB

Report Generation MS Word Table Bug

Hi everybody,
I am using Word 2010 and LV2010 and I am unable create a proper table with Word using the Report Generation Toolkit. Excel and HTML work fine, but Word fails. Not even the Examples work as they are supposed to.
When using the attached VI (see screenshot below)
the result appears as follows:
Temperature
Temperature
Temperature
Temperature
Temperature
Data 1
Data 1
Data 1
Data 1
Data 1
Data 2
Data 2
Data 2
Data 2
Data 2
Does anyone have an idea?
Thanks in advance.
ben
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Attachments:
test_table.vi ‏10 KB

OK, if NI won't provide a workaround, I'll create my own:
The problem stems from the fact that the NI Report Toolkit populate a Word table by first creating an empty table of the correct size, then placing the table contents into the copy buffer, then selects the whole table and uses Paste to push the data into the table. The problem is actually in Word, because in Word 2010 it interprets the contents of the copy buffer differently.
The solution is to alter the data that gets pushed into the copy buffer by the NI Report Toolkit. To implement my fix, you will need to alter one VI of the NI Report Toolkit (so you might want to make a backup in case this stops it from working in other previous release of Word).
Open [LabVIEW installation folder]\vi.lib\addons\_office\_wordsub.llb\Word_Insert_Table.vi
There is a nested for loop that interprets the provided string array data and reformats it into a long ASCII string for the copy buffer. It should look like this:
Change the nested loop to look like this:
The changes I've made are twofold:
1. Within the inner loop, replace the "\n" char with a Tab character
2. Just after the inner loop, add a new "concatenate strings" function that adds "\n".
This alters the string that the toolkit places into the copy buffer. You should find that report tables now populate correctly in Word 2010!
This is untested on previous releases of Word, and could possible introduce problems there, so if anyone could test this for me it would be most appreciated
Best of luck!
Thoric (CLA, CLED, CTD and LabVIEW Champion)

Can I align the orientation of axis labels in a graph generated with the report generation toolkit (Word)?

I was wondering how to align the axis labels, i.e. 90 degree or such when creating a graph with the report generation toolkit in word.
I can do it after the document is created through Format axis title -> alignment but is there a way out of LabVIEW?
I'd especially like to rotate the y-axis label by 90 degrees.
Thanks a lot,
Juergen

I think he means he can modify it by hand after the report has been generated... But what I want to do is generate the word graph out of labview already with the rotated axis label...
After I posted this I found out that we can do this with a macro and use it from labview, but unfortunately I don't know VB, or VBA...
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How to obtain the table index in word use LabVIEW Report Generation Toolkit for Microsoft Office

I created a word templete and it had several tables. When I use the "Word Edit Cell" function in LabVIEW Report Generation Toolkit for Microsoft Office, the function need "table index", and I didn't find any function to get or set the table index in word document. How can I achieve my attention to write value to specified table cell using the "Word Edit Cell" function?
Thanks for reply!
YangAfreet

Hi yangafreet
You do not need to get the table index for the word edit cell.vi from anywhere. LabVIEW will automatically index all the tables in the document. See the attatched vi for an example.
Rich
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Table Edit.vi ‏23 KB

Report Generation Toolkit - Prints data from a previous report in Word

I am running an executable from the "system exec.vi" created with Labview 6.1. I am using the Report Generation toolkit vi's to create a report in Word that prints simple Title with test header and then appends a Table with measurement data. The problem is the measurement data in the table is from a previously printed report. This problem only exists when I Run the Report.exe from the "System Exec.vi". If I manually start the Report.exe in Windows or open in the Windows Commandline the correct data measurement data is printed in the report table. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thank You

Hi,
So far I havent been able to reproduce this on my computer. Could you post your code so that I can try and reproduce this issue?
Feroz P
National Instruments

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...

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...

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!
Jeremy L.
National Instruments
Jeremy L.
National Instruments

Word report generation toolkit error with Win 7 LabVIEW 2013, Word2010

Hi All
I'm seeing different Errors using the Report generation toolkit. Maybe you can help me with that.
The errors are:
-2147417846, application is busy in Word_Get_range.vi
-2146824090 Exception in Microsoft word: Befehl misslungenHelp Path is wdmain11.chm and context ...
-2147417846 application is busy in Word_Quit.
the error messages are attached to the post.
I'm testing 10 sensors with one application and want to run up to 5 applications on one computer. Since I'm seeing such errors as application is to busy I set all my report generation vi's as non-reentrant execution and additionally added some pause after each word modification.
But I'm still seeing such errors when I run two applications on one computer.
What is the best way to deal with these errors?
thanks
best regards
Urs
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exceptionerror.PNG ‏20 KB
BusyActiveX2.PNG ‏20 KB
BusyActiveX.PNG ‏22 KB

Here my Vi's involved in creating the report.
Is there a way to check wheter word is busy or already open?
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save report as PDF.vi ‏26 KB
create_report.vi ‏70 KB
Word_Update_Table.vi ‏34 KB

Report Generation Toolkit: Table of Contents in MS Word

Hello forum users,
I would like to add a table of contents to a MS Word document, using the Report Generation Toolkit.
I couldn't find a VI in the toolkit that does that, so I tried to modify the VI "Word Insert Field.vi". Doing so, I could access a property node of the class "Word._Document" and an invoke node of the class "Word.TablesOfContents" with the method "Add".
As this modified VI does not belong to the private LabVIEW class "NI_Word.lvclass", it is not possible to unbundle the (type cast) "report in" wire to get the "Word._Document" class reference. I can't add the modified VI to the NI_Word class either, because it is password protected.
There are so many methods and properties that are not used in the official Report Generation Toolkit, like this one. How can I access them?
Or maybe there is another way to add a table of contents to a MS Word document (programmatically). Maybe I have to use a template. I rather wouldn't, though.
Operating System: Windows 7 64bit
LabVIEW: 2009 [9.0 (32bit)]
Report Generation Toolkit: 2009
MS Office: 2003 SP1
Thank you for reading an answering.
Solved!
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Word_Insert_TOC.png ‏68 KB

Hello again,
in the "Word Specific" > "Word Advanced" Palette of the Report Generation Toolkit, there is a VI called "Word Get ActiveX References" which essentially unbundles the private "report" data stream / wire. Thus, I can use the property and invoke nodes that make use of the "Add TablesOfContents" method.
I hope, that helps other users as I didn't find too many topics on Report Generation. Maybe it's just too easy...
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Word_Insert_TOC_fix.png ‏60 KB

Report generation is saving data to a word template

I created a template for a program to write test result data when prompted by the user. My problem is that after the template is written to and closed it's asks if the new data shoule be saved. I don't want to give the user that option because it actually saves it to the template not a document, and when another test is done and report is requested, it doesn't write over the data fromt the previous results, it adds to it. Is there some sort of Word security option or a vi that might be helper to prevent users from saving data permanently, to overwrite previous data?

Harene,
The ActiveX call to Quit comes with a parameter to Save Changes (T or F). I would suggest making that the last call you make. This is how the Dispose Report.vi is made in the Report Generation Toolkit for Microsoft Office. (This was checked on my machine with Office 2000.)
Randy Hoskin
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
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MS word report generation

Hi,
I am trying to generate report in MS word.The functions used in report generation are appending test and appending table.At few instance of report generation getting the attachded warning/error And report is not generated.
Using SPI 2013 and MS word 2013.
Thanks,
Chethan
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REPORT ERROR.JPG ‏63 KB

Hi
VI attached.
Note:The error message appears randomly(Not always).
Thanks,
Chethan
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PA_REPORT.vi ‏45 KB

Generate report using Word Report Generation VIs error

When I Generate report using Word Report Generation VIs ,the error is generated.
This is my Vi
can somebody tell the error reason?
The attaché is Vi (one is 2011,other is 8.6)
Attachments:
report-8.6.vi ‏16 KB
report2.vi ‏33 KB
template.doc ‏40 KB

Hi Ben64
Thank you! The problem is solved.
BUT when I use the Word Easy Graph vi ,the result is
I want the Graph (curve),like as:
How Can I do get the picture.
I have other problem. I want to get default name for the new word file.
liang

Malfunction in generating word report out of an app (using the report generation toolkit)

I placed in my program some features that generate a word report with some graphics and text using the report generation toolkit. When I'm in the developing system everything works. But the point is that I have to create an exe for a user and in testing this the report is not generated (and no error msg occurs). Does anyone handeled this problem already and could give me some hints? Thx.

Hi muchalla,
the report generation toolkit for MS office depends on the version of MS Office (not the OS). You must generate your application for the version of MS Office or use some dynamic technic.
The different versions of the llbs you need are on the CD in a subfolder called compability.
Here I have asked if some ideas to do this will work. Until now I haven't got the time to verify it by myself.
You will find here more information about using the report toolkit with applications.
Waldemar
Waldemar
Using 7.1.1, 8.5.1, 8.6.1, 2009 on XP and RT
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