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Friday, May 23, 2008

Calling an Excel Macro from X++

All, recently I needed to know how to call an Excel Macro from X++. This is not something that is widely published anywhere on the web, and something I had to figure out.

It's actually not that hard, and the best help was looking at how I had done it before in .Net.

So here is the code example:


SysExcelApplication ExcelApp;
SysExcelWorkbooks WorkBooks;
SysExcelWorkbook WorkBook;
SysExcelWorksheet Worksheet;
;


ExcelApp = SysExcelApplication::construct();
ExcelApp.displayAlerts(true);
ExcelApp.visible(true);

ExcelApp.workbooks().open("SomeExcelFile.xls");

Workbook = ExcelApp.workbooks().item(1);
Worksheet = Workbook.worksheets().itemFromName("WorkSheetName");

ExcelApp.comObject().Run("SomeMacro"); // The Call to run a Macro


Of course there is a lot more you can do, but basically any Excel based class has a .comObject() at which you can further extend and make Excel Interop COM calls via, that go beyond what is coded for in the SysExcel Class framework.

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5 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Useful post!
Is it possible to open a workbook whilst selecting the enable macros option from AX code?

1:19 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Would it be possible to transfer a worksheet to another workbook in AX?

10:19 AM  
Blogger AML said...

Hi,

I want to insert new row in excel using macro in x++. I used tried this code but i got error. I don't know how to do this, please help me.. thanks.

This is the code:
ExcelApp.comObject().Run("ActiveCell.EntireRow.Insert");

please help me on how to achieve this.. more power..

Regards,
AML

12:05 AM  
Blogger AML said...

Hi,

Is this correct?

ExcelApp.comObject().Run("ActiveCell.EntireRow.Insert");

Regards,
AML

12:08 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Try to use this instead:

Com excelRange, entireRow;
;

excelRange = xlsWorkSheet.cells().range(strfmt("%1%3:%2%3","A","A",18)).comObject();

entireRow = excelRange.entireRow();
entireRow.insert();

7:08 AM  

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