How can i kill process before using excel application scope

[Soudios (Sou)]

How can i kill process before using excel application scope plz ? because i can’t load add in in excel

[Palaniyappan (Palaniyappan P)]

Hi

Use KILL PROCESS activity and pass “EXCEL” as ProcessName property

https://docs.uipath.com/activities/other/latest/workflow/kill-process

Cheers @Soudios

[Soudios (Sou)]

can you show me plz ? with an example

[Palaniyappan (Palaniyappan P)]

@Soudios

[Soudios (Sou)]

in fact, i found this topic Excel Add-In Missing Fix - Help - UiPath Community Forum

Excel Add-In Missing Fix

Hello everyone, I have been searching around for a while trying to solve this problem, and I don’t believe this solution has been documented yet. I apologize if I am mistaken and someone else has already reported this. In a recent project I have been working on for my company, I needed to use the “Excel Application Scope” to open up Excel and work with Smart View. Of course, there is a bug that prevents the Add-In from loading. Today while opening my program, Smart View was loaded. It was the …

and i don’t understand how to do

[Parvathy (PS Parvathy)]

Hi @Soudios

Use Kill Process activity.

Hope it helps!!

[Palaniyappan (Palaniyappan P)]

This is the basic point to be interpreted from that post

By adding in the “Kill Process” activity to terminate Excel before using “Excel Application Scope”, it guarantees that Excel needs to be started fresh…

So before your excel application scope activity use this kill process to stop the background running excel application so that it opens fresh and works fine with ur add ins or any features

Hope this clarifies

Cheers @Soudios

[Soudios (Sou)]

its not clear, what i need to kill ? excel file is not opened before excel application scope

[postwick (Paul Ostwick)]

A file doesn’t have to be open for there to be an excel.exe process running. That’s the point of the post you shared about the add-in missing, a background excel.exe process stays running. A process has nothing to do with a file. A process is what you see in Windows Task Manager.

[Anil_G (Anil Gorthi)]

@Soudios

please use kill process with process name as Excel

sometimes excel will be open in background to ensure it is closed we use kill process

cheers

[Soudios (Sou)]

this is what i need to do ? :

[Anil_G (Anil Gorthi)]

@Soudios

Fill only process name nothing else is needed

cheers

[Soudios (Sou)]

oh i see, its not resolving my issue, its not loading the add-in in excel

[Praveen_Mudhiraj]

@Soudios

You need to do like this

[mkankatala (Mahesh Kankatala)]

Hi @Soudios

You can use the Kill Process activity and in the Process name field give this EXCEL.exe.
This activity kill the excel application from the Task Manager.

Hope it helps!!

[postwick (Paul Ostwick)]

No, don’t fill in the Process property. Multiple people have posted a screenshot of exactly what you need to do…

[Anil_G (Anil Gorthi)]

@Soudios

if your issue is about addins…then please make sure the excel is loaded as application …these optiosn can be selected in excel process scope

cheers

[Palaniyappan (Palaniyappan P)]

@Soudios

its not clear, what i need to kill ? excel file is not opened before excel application scope

Fine
When you are using workbook activities it doesn’t use or even open excel application in back end
But
If u r using excel activity like excel application scope it literally opens excel application in background

To ensure it opens free it’s good to use KILL PROCESS

There pass value only to PROCESSNAME property as “Excel”
Don’t fill other fields

@Soudios

[Soudios (Sou)]

@Anil_G
You mean ''start as a process ? "

[Soudios (Sou)]

ok but its not loading the add in ? Can i use delay, maybe it will let more time to excel to load it ?