Can I start Excel on a remote PC (LabView 7.0) ?

[wolfe]

Hi,
I'm using LabView 7.0 and I wrote a VI, which saves data in an excel file. Now I use the VI remotely, so that remote PCs can execute the VI in a browser. Is it possible to open excel on the remote PCs (and not on the WebServer)? I heard, LabView 7.0 has new feature in this field.

Thanks for any help.
Elli

[noniano]

Wolf, I have the same problem. Can you solve it?

I have a VI that it executes throw webserver, and I can control that from client. This VI creates an EXCEL document, when I am a client and I want to create the excel document, this document is creating in the server machine, not in my computer (client).

How can I do to solve this problem??

Thanks for your help.

BYE.

[Riconquistiamola]

Hi noniano,

I'm not sure why Elli's post was not answered, as our technical support staff monitors unanswered discussion forum posts. The complication in you application, as you mentioned, is that you are running a VI remotely, and it can only write to file on the remote (client) computer. So you have all this information on the client computer that cannot be accessed by the host.

Without getting into too complicated a solution, is it possible to create a shared directory on the remote computer that the Excel file can be written to? This way you can simply FTP to the remote computer from the host and transfer the file.

Let me know if this is not a viable solution. Cheers.