Appian RPA Open Excel FIle

Question

Hello, 
 It seems the documentation for the RPA Actions is limited and I would like to know which Action should be used when the need is the robot to update Excel File, 
 For example I guess one of the following two will be: 
 
 Initialization with URL 
 or 
 Initialization with File Parameter 
 
 Let's assume the file is located on disk C:\Exce\ what parameter should be passed to any of these two actions in order the robot to open the excel and start filling in data after that ?

David Catalan · Accepted Answer

Hi Imayavathi: 
 From the Appian RPA 9.0.0 version ,it is available two new Excel Modules in the RPA pattern that you must use instead of the library. https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/23.1/rpa-9.0/actions-excel-nolicense.html and https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/23.1/rpa-9.0/actions-excel-license-required.html . 
 But answering your question, to install the library, you must uncompress first the downloaded file. It contains a Readme.pdf file with the documentation and a zip file with the library ( rpa-excel-low-code-methods-1.2.0.zip )

David Catalan · Answer

In this case, you must use "Initialization with URL" and the URL parameter must be the full path of the Excel file. 
 
 But in any case, if you want to filling data in the excel file, I recommend you to use the Appian RPA Excel Library that was recently published in the Appian App Market 
 https://community.appian.com/b/appmarket/posts/rpa-excel-low-code-methods 
 It contains more completed methods to interact with Excel.