Running Excel macros from ABAP

Question

Hello everyone,
I am trying to execute an Excel macro from an ABAP program.  We are currently on a 46C system.  While doing some research on help.sap.com I came across the method execute_macro in class i_oi_document_proxy.  I’ve never used methods in ABAP before and I’m not really sure what I’m doing.  Has anyone got this to work?  When I try to run the program it dumps with error OBJECTS_OBJREF_NOT_ASSIGNED.
Thanks,
Becky
Here is the program:
REPORT ztest_program.
INCLUDE ole2incl.
DATA gs_excel TYPE ole2_object .
DATA gs_wbooks TYPE ole2_object .
DATA gs_wbook TYPE ole2_object .
DATA gs_application TYPE ole2_object .
DATA: h_sheet TYPE ole2_object.
DATA: document TYPE REF TO i_oi_document_proxy.
*Name of the macro in Excel
DATA: macro_string(50) TYPE c
                 VALUE 'FB03process.FromTheBeginning',
      no_flush TYPE c,
      param_count TYPE i VALUE 0,
      script_name TYPE c VALUE 'X',
      error TYPE REF TO i_oi_error
            OCCURS 0 WITH HEADER LINE,
      retcode TYPE soi_ret_string,
      error_string(50) TYPE c,
      retvalue(30) TYPE c.
CALL FUNCTION 'SAPGUI_PROGRESS_INDICATOR'
   EXPORTING
         text       = text-007
     EXCEPTIONS
          OTHERS     = 1.
CREATE OBJECT gs_excel 'EXCEL.APPLICATION' .
SET PROPERTY OF gs_excel 'Visible' = 1 .
GET PROPERTY OF gs_excel 'Workbooks' = gs_wbooks .
GET PROPERTY OF gs_wbooks 'Application' = gs_application .
*--Opening the existing document
CALL METHOD OF gs_wbooks 'Open' = gs_wbook
     EXPORTING #1 = 'D:\temp\FB03process.xls' .
tell user what is going on
CALL FUNCTION 'SAPGUI_PROGRESS_INDICATOR'
   EXPORTING
          PERCENTAGE = 0
         text       = text-009
     EXCEPTIONS
          OTHERS     = 1.
GET PROPERTY OF gs_excel 'ACTIVESHEET' = h_sheet.
CALL METHOD document->execute_macro
     EXPORTING macro_string  = macro_string
               param_count   = param_count
               script_name   = script_name
               no_flush      = no_flush
     IMPORTING error         = error
               retcode       = retcode
     CHANGING  error_string  = error_string
               retvalue      = retvalue.
disconnect from Excel
FREE OBJECT gs_excel.
PERFORM err_hdl.
FORM err_hdl.
  IF sy-subrc <> 0.
    WRITE: / 'Fehler bei OLE-Automation:'(010), sy-subrc.
    STOP.
  ENDIF.
ENDFORM.                    " ERR_HDL

Answer 1

Hi,
Please correct me if I am wrong but it seems that you have not fetched a handle to the document object before issuing the statement CALL METHOD document->execute_macro. Hence the error OBJECTS_OBJREF_NOT_ASSIGNED is being dislayed. If you want to use SAP Desktop Office Integration using ABAP Objects, take a look at this article at http://www.intelligenterp.com/feature/archive/ or http://www.sapinfo.net/public/en/index.php4/article/comvArticle-193333c63b4bd807d2/en/articleStatistic
Hope this helps.
Regards
Message was edited by: Shehryar Khan