Automic Workload Automation

  • 1.  Call Excel from Automic One

    Posted Jan 20, 2017 01:06 AM
    I have an Excel workbook with macros that fire upon opening.  I want this activity orchestrated from Automic One.  I have tried using a task to call a bat script and a vbs, without success.  Are there any examples out there, showing how this can be achieved.  Thanks in advance.


  • 2.  Call Excel from Automic One

    Posted Jan 20, 2017 02:56 AM

    There are various issues that might come up if you try to do office automation on server systems. Microsoft has a knowledge base article on this:
    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/257757/considerations-for-server-side-automation-of-office

    I ran into exactly those issues when I tried to automate Visio.



  • 3.  Call Excel from Automic One

    Posted Jan 20, 2017 03:30 AM

    HiMark West,

    What happened when you say "no success"?

    Do you have excel installed on the Agent's machine?



  • 4.  Call Excel from Automic One

    Posted Apr 26, 2017 08:29 AM
    Sorry for lack of update.  I have managed to get the orchestration working using VBScript.  The VBScript itself is located on the Agents machine.