Password property of Excel Application scope doesn't accept Secure String

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Scenario: Excel is password protect and we are reading password from asset using Get credentials

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Current Behavior: Error message ‘System.Security.String cannot be converted to String’

Expected Behavior: It should accept Secure string else no point of reading encrypted password from asset.

Studio/Robot/Orchestrator Version: 2016.2.6274

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Yes.
As excel password property is of type string hence it doesn’t support.
However you can still manipulate secure string to string and pass it.
string password = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(string.Empty, securePassword).Password;
It’s not just for excel, many activities requires secure string as default password field.

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@ddpadil

This manipulation is giving me Null value for both Username and password when i pass those what i got from Get Credentials. Can you help me out here?

Thank you
Abhishek