Read range on empty workbook

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I find that attempting to use file Read Range on an empty workbook is faulting. Is this to be expected? Seems rather dumb if so.

I’ve found that I need first do a Read Cell on the first cell in the sheet. If the result is not null or empty I know I have data and can then do Read Range.

Like I said, dumb. Unless there’s some logic that is above me.

ddk

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Hi Daniel,

No, this is not the expected behavior. Could you please provide the UiPath.Excel.Activities package version?

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Not the Excel Read… Range. It’s the Workbook version.

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The Workbook activities are also in the Excel.Activities package.

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Hi @rabbit_rebozo,

@ovi
Yes you are right you can use the same step to find sheet is empty or not.

Note: The only problem is if the records start from some other position its difficult to find sheet is empty or not.

Regards
Arivu :slight_smile:

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We build the workbook so we know what’s where. We just don’t always know beforehand if there’s anything in it.

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Might be better to surround it with a Try/Catch so it will continue on error, then before you use the data check if it has data, like [ dt isNot Nothing ]

Read Cell method like Ovi said could give you inaccurate results.

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