Now that we have cleaned up the canvas, let's proceed to use the MS Excel VBO to open an instance of Excel, as shown in the following steps:
- Drag an Action stage from the toolbox and drop it beneath the Start stage. Assign the Action stage the following property values:
- Name: Create Excel instance
- Business Object: MS Excel VBO
- Action: Create instance
- In the properties dialog, click on the Outputs tab. Notice that there is an output field named handle. In the Store In field, click on the Data Item icon to create a new data item with the name handle. Close the dialog. The handle data item is a number that uniquely identifies the instance of Excel that is opened. Windows is capable of opening multiple instances of Excel at ...
