Report Generation Toolkit Error Quick Question

Hi,
I created the most awesome LabVIEW report ever at my desk using a trial version of the RGT and Office 2003. I took this to my production machine and ")@#(&%(*#^%()^!!!" The production machine has office 2007 and a fully licensed version of the RGT. Both machines have LabVIEW 8.6.0. I've read all the stuff about these errors and something about classes and dll's and whatnot's. So my quick question, is: Instead of matching the versions of Microsoft Office as recommended, can I just rewrite from scratch the VI that creates this world's most awesome LabVIEW report on the production machine to create the same effect?
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Hi
Quick Answer: Probably
Slower answer: Microsoft changed a lot of things behind the scenes in Office 2007, but the Report Generation toolkit version 1.1.3 supports Office 2007 so you should be good to go. Depends on what functions are included in your VI. Liek the read me says "Several default settings in Microsoft Office 2007 differ slightly from previous versions. Reports you generate using Office 2007 might look different than reports you generate from other versions of Office because font sizes, cell sizes, and so on, differ."
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Does anybody know what error -214 682 7864 (0x800A01A8) means when coming from the Report Generation Toolkit.
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nrp wrote:
I have an app which has been happily ticking over for several weeks, and then this error was generated when attempting to write a table to a spreadsheet.
Was it the first time you attempted to write the table to that spreadsheet?
Maybe the error is due to the spreadsheet grown oversize than its limit so that it cant accomodate the table anymore.
What is the version of MS Office you are using? I think Office 2003 can go only upto 1024 columns...
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Thanks for the reply, however, this VI is part of the Report Generation Toolkit so I don't want to have to modified NI's code if possible. I did try your suggestion without saving the VI and I still got the same error.
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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:
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Thanks in advance
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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:
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Hi Christian,
I do not see that exact option listed, do you mean "user interface"? I recognize the "Run in UI Thread" option, it's on the Call Library Function Node.
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Have you had a look at this knowledgebase article? The error is caused due to the exclusion of any dynamic VI.
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Error -2417417851 using Report generation toolkit

I try to use the Report Generation toolkit (Version 1.0.1) for MS Office und the example "Generate Report from Template (Excel).vi" return an Error -2417417851
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