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Failed to Create Excel file from Schedule.

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:40:31 GMT

After banging my head against the wall for about half an hour, I thought I'd put the question to you all to see if I was missing something easy.

I'm simply trying to save a copy of my window and door schedules to an excel file. It's important for my purposes to keep the formatting intact.

I've tried publishing with the result, "Publishing of the item failed because ArchiCAD was unable to generate it." I've tried "save as --> .xls" which successfully creates a file, however, the file is completely blank containing no information.

Publishing or "save as" to all the other options for file types works fine. any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Re: Failed to Create Excel file from Schedule.

Erika Epstein — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:22:42 GMT

Open the scheduler window so you see the schedule and then SAVE AS and choose the file format you want such as .doc or .xls.

Hope your head feels better soon

Re: Failed to Create Excel file from Schedule.

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:23:54 GMT

Tried that, with the schedule open and refreshed. It successfully created the file but the file was empty. Strangely, all the other file formats work fine.

Thanks for the thought.

dom

Re: Failed to Create Excel file from Schedule.

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:10:11 GMT

Dom,

Your signature says you are on AC 13 Mac ... is it possible that you are actually on 14 now? Saving to XLS is a 14 Mac Java update bug reported (and patched) here:

http://www.archicadwiki.com/Bugs/CannotSavePdfAfterJavaUpdate

Cheers,
Karl

Re: Failed to Create Excel file from Schedule.

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 19:45:29 GMT

Ha! Yes, just switched over once the hotfix came out.

Re: Failed to Create Excel file from Schedule.

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:44:01 GMT

All good now! Thanks Karl. This forum is the best.

Re: Failed to Create Excel file from Schedule.

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:54:50 GMT

Good news. Glad it worked, Dom! I give Graphisoft a lot of credit for how quickly they came out with the patches and the detailed Wiki article after the Apple Java update raised havoc for Mac users.

Re: Failed to Create Excel file from Schedule.

vistasp — Tue, 01 May 2012 14:05:05 GMT

Publishing as .xls just gave me the exact same error that Dom got.

Was Save As XLS introduced in 14? My only options - with the schedule window open - seem to be .txt (tabbed), .dxf (huh?) and .pdf.

Re: Failed to Create Excel file from Schedule.

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 18:05:18 GMT

I seem to be having the same issue with AC 16 can anyone help.