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Daily Forum Report | 06 June 2025

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Extract Data Table not picking any values made by @dutta.marina with 18 views.

Regarding Antivirus popup made by @akarshan.sonkar with 18 views.

Argument 'Value': BC30311: Value of type 'String()' cannot be converted to 'List(Of String)'. The selected value is incompatible with the property type made by @Bastien_B with 17 views.

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Is it possible to strike a cell value in Excel made by @arivazhagan_mathivan with 12 replies.

Regarding Antivirus popup made by @akarshan.sonkar with 11 replies.

Argument 'Value': BC30311: Value of type 'String()' cannot be converted to 'List(Of String)'. The selected value is incompatible with the property type made by @Bastien_B with 10 replies.

Top 3 Users Who Posted The Most

@ashokkarale made 18 posts!

@Anil_G made 18 posts!

@sonaliaggarwal47 made 11 posts!

Top 3 Most Liked Posts

This post made by @Jon_Smith received 3 likes!

Argument 'Value': BC30311: Value of type 'String()' cannot be converted to 'List(Of String)'. The selected value is incompatible with the property type

Yes, you are creating an Array and the argument asked for a List They are different data types that have different functionality. A list can be sorted, and have items easily added and removed, and array cannot. They are both IEnumerable so if an argument asks for that you can use either Array or List, but if it asks specifically for a list you have to add a list. You indeed need to create a New List(of string) but you can immediately populate it by adding From {"sddfsf", "sdafsdfs"}

This post made by @Murali_vennapusa received 1 likes!

Read Range error on modern Excel Read Range activity

My situation is bit complex to explain, I am converting legacy existing process to modern Windows versions, hence I don’t want to use legacy activities and wanted to use modern activities only. Hence the issue with “Read Range” with this huge excel spread sheet. Also the ultimate goal of process is the have an “Append” and then Deletes to the same sheet. As we don’t have get range in the modern activities I came up with this solution Excel scope > Use Excel > Read Range with only one row (Hard…

This post made by @ashokkarale received 1 likes!

Is it possible to strike a cell value in Excel

@arivazhagan_mathivan, Yes, this is possible using VBA code. Use Invoke VBA activity and pass this code in a text file. Change the cell address as per your need Sub FormatCellD3() With Range("D3").Font .Strikethrough = True .Color = RGB(255, 0, 0) ' Red color End With End Sub

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This solution provided by @Jon_Smith received 1 likes!

Argument 'Value': BC30311: Value of type 'String()' cannot be converted to 'List(Of String)'. The selected value is incompatible with the property type

Its a quirk of VB.NET specifically. You can’t actually create an Array in C# for example without creating a new Array. C# is, in my opinion, a far superior language because of things like this cause its so much more consistent and has smart syntax usage etc, but the idea for VB.NET was to be ‘beginner friendly’, however sometimes I think this intially friendliness just causes more confusion down the line. As for some more technical reasons, its to do with the complexity of the object, a List i…

This solution provided by @sonaliaggarwal47 received 1 likes!

Unable to select value in custom drop down list

Ohh, I just checked. I dont think you should be adding type as button there as its not a button. get the selector again by clicking at the value and please share that one.. that selector plus enabling simulate from options->input mode should do the trick

This solution provided by @gorby received 1 likes!

Outlook Desktopメールメッセージを取得アクティビティで「指定したフォルダーは存在しません」

Hi, kind instructor @Anil_G san, I already confirmed english version “inbox” did not work as well as Japanese version “inbox”. I noted this “Get Outlook Mail Messages” activity may NOT allow POP3 server. I am using POP3 server… I will continue to research…Stay tuned! ->After replacing ““Get Outlook Mail Messages”” activity with ““Get POP3 Mail Messages”” activity my workflow worked. Cheers with my chai

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