RE: [Wrapper-user] Wrapper and Excel

[Russell R. <rr...@mo...>]

1: The options are in the Services options through the control panel.
2: Yes, Excel will be a process - it's just hung up waiting for user input the 
first time it gets run (by SYSTEM)

Quoting "Ramachandra, Arun" <Ram...@Sy...>:

> 1:> Where do these options come? in wrapper.conf?
> 2:> Actually i can see Excel.exe as a process in the task manager but the
> xla which is called upon by the program does not seem to be doing anything.
> Is this some security setting?(the macro security is already low)
> 
>  -Thanks
>  -Arun
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Russell Rice [mailto:rr...@mo...]
> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 7:42 PM
> To: wra...@li...; Ramachandra, Arun
> Cc: 'wra...@li...'
> Subject: Re: [Wrapper-user] Wrapper and Excel
> 
> 
> Actually, I have seen this type of thing before.  
> 
> The problem I experienced interlies in the fact Excel has the annoying
> Office 
> Assistant.  When it starts up for the first time for each user on the
> machine, 
> the Office Assistant is asking something like "do you want information on
> this 
> version of Excel?"  
> 
> My solution for this was one of the following:
>   1)  Check the option "Allow service to interact with desktop" - run what
> ends 
> up calling Excel, then click there
>   2)  Change the user it logs in as away from SYSTEM to your own 
> username/password.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Quoting "Ramachandra, Arun" <Ram...@Sy...>:
> 
> > I have a program which runs in the wrapper as a service.
> > The program launches an excel exe.
> > It seems to be running fine in console mode but not in service mode
> > 
> > Does anyone have an idea why this could be happenning? Has anyone seen
> this
> > before?
> >  -Thanks
> >  -Arun
> > 
> 
>