word report

[K C]

Hi All,

Currently working on a program where I use the Office Report Generation (Word)

With LV 8.5 I used a VI of my own to set a table in autofit. This can not be done with the VI in the toolkit (I think  )

With LV 8.6 the report reference is changed, now I con not use my own VI anymore.

Does someone have a solution for this ? 

[RikPrins]

Hello KC,

I think we already have been in contact via email about this matter am I correct? Anyway to have this also clear for other users: The Report Generation VI's (not only the once in the toolkit) have been rewritten in LabVIEW 8.6 and the newest Office Toolkit to have Object oriented classes. With this change the report reference was replaced by a class wire. If you use only VI's which are in the toolkit or the report VI's then you are save, no issues there. But a lot of users created their own subvi's with options of word or excel which the Office toolkit does not provide. The subvi's most often make use of the old reference. They will not function any more with the new situation. Also there is no way to add these subvi's to the classes in the toolkit since these are locked.

A workaround to get around this is: track the reference you need in one of the native vi's of the toolkit. Since the Vi's are editable you can create an indicator on the reference you need and pass this reference outside the subvi through the connector pane. Now you will have the correct reference avaiable for your subvi and it will function again.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

RikP - National Instruments Applications Engineering

Message Edited by RikP on 08-26-2008 08:44 AM

[K C]

Yes Rik thta is correct, it is the same guy.

There was no answer here so I mailed NI with the question.