Reading Excel file - Appian RPA

RE: Reading Excel file - Appian RPA

Danny Verb — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 21:48:28 GMT

Instead, I recommend using the plugins to get data from Excel. You can:

Use the method 'Upload Document' to upload the excel file to Appian which will return an Appian Document

Use the 'evaluate expression' action to use the plugin functions and save excel data into process variables.

Then, use those process variables to enter data into your forms

RE: Reading Excel file - Appian RPA

CalvinL — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 21:34:32 GMT

My use case would be passing in an excel form and iterating through the rows to get information I can then use in a process/form field. Is there a way to do this with RPA excel data provider module?

RE: Reading Excel file - Appian RPA

Danny Verb — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 21:32:23 GMT

For RPA, I would focus on interacting with windows applications using the Windows Automation actions or the Browser actions. It's good to find a solid use case first

RE: Reading Excel file - Appian RPA

CalvinL — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 20:04:28 GMT

Yes but my question is directed towards RPA, I would like to learn to use the services.

RE: Reading Excel file - Appian RPA

Danny Verb — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 19:55:54 GMT

For reading files from Excel, I recommend using the excel tools plugin https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/excel-tools

It lets you read from excel files row by row on the Appian server instead of having to use RPA