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OLE - updating a chart in an excel spreadsheet

by Rom399 (Initiate)
on Mar 17, 2004 at 04:21 UTC ( [id://337221]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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Hi i need a bit of help with some ole automation specificaly with updating a chart in an excel spreadsheet using perl. What i am trying to do is update sourceData for "Chart 1" on the Requests sheet. The sourceData for that chart currently has the values of '=Data!$A$1:$A$291,Data!$G$1:$G$291' what i am trying to do change it to '=Data!$A$1:$A$295,Data!$G$1:$G$295' for example. This Excel spreadsheet is already prebuilt contains a number of charts on the request,performance and errors pages. Here is the code:
sub updateExcelCounters { my $excelToUpdate = shift; my @dataFiles = @_; ###print "Excel: $excelToUpdate files; @dataFiles .\n"; my $Excel = Win32::OLE->new("Excel.Application"); $Excel->{Visible} = 1; print "Excel: Opening Excel $excelToUpdate \n"; my $Book = $Excel->Workbooks->Open($excelToUpdate); # open Excel +file print "book : $Book\n"; my $DataSheet = $Book->Worksheets("Data"); my $RequestsSheet = $Book->Worksheets("Requests"); my $PerformanceSheet = $Book->Worksheets("Performance"); my $ErrorsSheet = $Book->Worksheets("Errors"); my $file; foreach $file (@dataFiles) { if($file =~ /counters\.csv/) { my $line; my $Range; my @items; my $valueRange; my $lastSourceData; my $i = 1; $DataSheet->Activate(); open(IN,"<$file") || die "$!\n"; while($line = <IN>) { chomp $line; @items = split/,/,$line; $valueRange = "A" .$i . ":". "I" .$i; $Range = $DataSheet->Range($valueRange); #print "Range $Range\n"; ### Create a refrence to @items and insert it into exce +l $Range->{Value} = [\@items]; $i++; } close(IN); ### Get the value that will be user to update all the grap +hs SourceData with; $lastSourceData = $i -1; print "lastSourceData: $lastSourceData \n"; $RequestsSheet->Select(); ### Here we update the graphs sourcedata my $Chart1 = $RequestsSheet->ChartObjects("Chart 1"); $Chart1->Activate(); my $name = $Chart1->Name(); print "Chart1 Name: ", $name ,"\n";\ $RequestsSheet->ChartObjects("Chart 1")->Activate(); $Chart1->SetSourceData({Source => '=Data!\$A\$2:\$A\$295'} +); } ### Closing if($file } ### Closing the foreach }

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Re: OLE - updating a chart in an excel spreadsheet
by guha (Priest) on Mar 17, 2004 at 10:05 UTC

    First I must say I agree with NetWallah about the importance of posting the errormessage AND the offending linenumber.

    So now I'm guessing that the line

    ### Create a refrence to @items and insert it into excel $Range->{Value} = [\@items];
    could be part of your troubles.

    #!perl -w use strict; use Data::Dumper; my @items= ('A','B','C'); print Dumper(\@items); print Dumper([\@items]); __OUTPUT__ $VAR1 = [ 'A', 'B', 'C' ]; $VAR1 = [ [ 'A', 'B', 'C' ] ];
    HTH
      Every thing up to here works, soon as i put in this bit of code i get the perl interpreter crash hence no error messages.
      ### Here we update the graphs sourcedata my $Chart1 = $RequestsSheet->ChartObjects("Chart 1"); $Chart1->Activate(); my $name = $Chart1->Name(); print "Chart1 Name: ", $name ,"\n";\ $RequestsSheet->ChartObjects("Chart 1")->Activate(); ############### This line here blows everything up. $Chart1->SetSourceData({Source => '=Data!\$A\$2:\$A\$295'} +);
      I have tried to update the Chart1 sourceData this way as well also get the perl interpreter to crash. No error messages.
      ### Here we update the graphs sourcedata my $Chart1 = $RequestsSheet->ChartObjects("Chart 1"); my $sourceRange = "A1:A295,G1:G295"; my $Chart1Range = $DataSheet->Range($sourceRange); ############### This line here blows everything up. $Chart1->SetSourceData({Source =>$Chart1Range,PlotBy => xl +Columns});

        This works for me

        my $Chart1Range = $DataSheet->Range("A1:A295,G1:G295"); $Chart1->SetSourceData($Chart1Range,xlColumns);

        You don't need to escape the $ in a single quoted string.
        # This line here blows everything up. $Chart1->SetSourceData({Source =>'=Data!\$A\$2:\$A\$295'}

        However, that doesn't fix the problem. The syntax of the second example using the Excel range seems correct but doesn't work. I tried several variations with no success.

        --
        John.

Re: OLE - updating a chart in an excel spreadsheet
by NetWallah (Canon) on Mar 17, 2004 at 05:44 UTC
    You have not identified the error you are getting - but I suspect it is in the SetSourceData call. The SourceData "Source" parameter takes a RANGE object. It appears you are trying to assign it a string.

    My recommendation would be to use Named ranges. In the original chart, setup the source data to a named range. Then, in you code, you can simply change the range cells that the name points to, and you are done.

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      Most of the time i don't get a error or error message. I get a compile crash when it get's to the sourceData update.. Also tryed using this but more perl interpreter crashes :(
      ### Here we update the graphs sourcedata my $Chart1 = $RequestsSheet->ChartObjects("Chart 1"); my $sourceRange = "A1:A295,G1:G295"; my $Chart1Range = $DataSheet->Range($sourceRange); $Chart1->SetSourceData({Source =>$Chart1Range,PlotBy => xl +Columns});

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