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CreateOLEExcelScope (Activity)

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The CreateOLEExcelScope opens an Excel file and provides access to its workbooks and sheets.

IC Attention.pngOnly files from Excel 97-2003 (*.xls) is supported yet!
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Description

Create OLE Excel Scope
Name CreateOLEExcelScope
Purpose Open an Excel file via OLE
Category UBIK Data Exchange
Returns True if successful
Version 2.4.1+

Arguments

Argument Type Direction Purpose
ContainsHeader Boolean In Excel sheet has headers
DisplayName String In Diplay name of the activity
FullPath String In The full path of the file
Password String In The corresponding password for the user
Result Boolean Out True if successful, false if failed
Tables List<OLETableDescriptor> Out not used

Usage

This activity is used to open an Excel document as an OLE compliant data source. It is a nestable activity, which means it can host any amount of sub-activities that will be processed sequentially. The hosted activities are typically CreateOLETableScope activities, either as direct children but also wrapped within looping activities like ForEach or While.

Example

The CreateOLEExcelScope activity, as used in the larger example "Read data from an Excel document":

UI Activity CreateOLEDBScope Example.png

See also