Scenario: Uistudio open and docx word file is also open. Publishing the project has failed. Error: The process cannot access the file ‘I:******\Dev Code\Jake Lewis\Development\Generic Payments Flowchart - V1 and V2 - Working 110917\PaymentProcess\Converting Payments Flow to work with queues.docx’ b…

Why do you need to have the word doc open when you publish? thanks,

Hey Djh, I have word documents open all the time as part of my work. I don’t need them open but it becomes disruptive to close them all down each time i’m looking to publish.I’d be intrigued to know why studio and word interact in such a way that word would block studio’s execution as i would have …

Ok, understood. the problem is simply that the word document isn’t allowing access to UiPath because it thinks you are using the document and so has in effect locked it down for your use. Are you familiar with how to change the file sharing options on a word document? Shared documents allow multiple…

Hi Djh, I think you may have misunderstood. My robot does not interact with the document in any way. It is actually a change log that I fill in every time I push the robot to orchestrator. I’m familiar with the fact that files will be locked down if two users have them open. (shared documents tend…

Hi Jake, yes my apologies I assumed the word file you had open was one which was being used by the automation. I haven’t seen this issue before im afraid

Hi Djh, No problem. As I said it’s resolved by closing the word document but is something odd that’s for sure. Thanks anyways :slight_smile:

@jakelewis18 Hello, The only reason that I see which would cause this is that the document you have open is part of your project folder (location: I:*\Dev Code\Jake Lewis\Development\Generic Payments Flowchart - V1 and V2 - Working 110917\PaymentProcess\Converting Payments Flow to work with queues…

Hey, That may very well be it I can see that excel would lock the location while publishing to stop any inadvertent changes being made. That makes sense, when I get a chance I will check this and let you know. Thanks

Cannot publish if Word document (docx) is open

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Djh (Dillan Hackett) September 25, 2017, 12:50pm 8

No problem, sorry I cant be of more help, @Florent_Salendres do you know if there is a workaround to this/why this is happening?

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Cannot publish if Word document (docx) is open

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