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Tough One: displayalerts = false while OUTSIDE VBA
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1. Can anyone think of a way to disable alerts on background queries when the Excel application is in control. (please see below before answering that I should set displayalerts = false). 2. Is there a timeout property that can be set on a web query. This might seem a bit arcane, but is quite critical to a web data capture routine. I need to turn off alerts WHILE excel, NOT vba is in control of operations. I have a vba routine that generates potentialy thousands of web queries in a workbook. Madness I know but there is method. These queries run massively quicker when they are performed as background queries - ie. once excel gets back in control when the vba routine that built the queries has finished. I have a timer running (ported from vb in an activex wrapper) that monitors the progress of the queries, then runs some clean up routines when everything has been completed. Problems a 1. If there is an error at the server or in the query, Excel displays an alert. VBA is not running at this point other than the periodic timer routine, so displayalerts = false makes no difference to the error message being displayed. Excel help has the following to say about displayalerts: If you set this property to False, Micorosoft Excel sets this property to True when the code is finished, unless you are running cross process code. 2. If the queries take too long, I get a time out error, also leading to problem 1. And, once the errors start, they are hard to stop since the app is halted for the error, meaning data returns are probably creating errors. Finally, having spent ages trying to work out a robust timer solution in vba, akin to the vb timer, I'll post the activex solution in the next few days for general usage. If anyone would like to give it a whirl in the meantime for a bit of testing, please let me know. Thanks in advance, Robin Hammond www.enhanceddatasystems.com |
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Tough One: displayalerts = false while OUTSIDE VBA
Hi Robin
AFAIK you can't set this property to False outside VBA. As I'm not using Web queries, don't they have a setting to omitt error messages? -- Regards Frank Kabel Frankfurt, Germany Robin Hammond wrote: Questions: 1. Can anyone think of a way to disable alerts on background queries when the Excel application is in control. (please see below before answering that I should set displayalerts = false). 2. Is there a timeout property that can be set on a web query. This might seem a bit arcane, but is quite critical to a web data capture routine. I need to turn off alerts WHILE excel, NOT vba is in control of operations. I have a vba routine that generates potentialy thousands of web queries in a workbook. Madness I know but there is method. These queries run massively quicker when they are performed as background queries - ie. once excel gets back in control when the vba routine that built the queries has finished. I have a timer running (ported from vb in an activex wrapper) that monitors the progress of the queries, then runs some clean up routines when everything has been completed. Problems a 1. If there is an error at the server or in the query, Excel displays an alert. VBA is not running at this point other than the periodic timer routine, so displayalerts = false makes no difference to the error message being displayed. Excel help has the following to say about displayalerts: If you set this property to False, Micorosoft Excel sets this property to True when the code is finished, unless you are running cross process code. 2. If the queries take too long, I get a time out error, also leading to problem 1. And, once the errors start, they are hard to stop since the app is halted for the error, meaning data returns are probably creating errors. Finally, having spent ages trying to work out a robust timer solution in vba, akin to the vb timer, I'll post the activex solution in the next few days for general usage. If anyone would like to give it a whirl in the meantime for a bit of testing, please let me know. Thanks in advance, Robin Hammond www.enhanceddatasystems.com |
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Tough One: displayalerts = false while OUTSIDE VBA
Frank,
I really hope so. I just can't find it. Robin Hammond www.enhanceddatasystems.com "Frank Kabel" wrote in message ... Hi Robin AFAIK you can't set this property to False outside VBA. As I'm not using Web queries, don't they have a setting to omitt error messages? -- Regards Frank Kabel Frankfurt, Germany Robin Hammond wrote: Questions: 1. Can anyone think of a way to disable alerts on background queries when the Excel application is in control. (please see below before answering that I should set displayalerts = false). 2. Is there a timeout property that can be set on a web query. This might seem a bit arcane, but is quite critical to a web data capture routine. I need to turn off alerts WHILE excel, NOT vba is in control of operations. I have a vba routine that generates potentialy thousands of web queries in a workbook. Madness I know but there is method. These queries run massively quicker when they are performed as background queries - ie. once excel gets back in control when the vba routine that built the queries has finished. I have a timer running (ported from vb in an activex wrapper) that monitors the progress of the queries, then runs some clean up routines when everything has been completed. Problems a 1. If there is an error at the server or in the query, Excel displays an alert. VBA is not running at this point other than the periodic timer routine, so displayalerts = false makes no difference to the error message being displayed. Excel help has the following to say about displayalerts: If you set this property to False, Micorosoft Excel sets this property to True when the code is finished, unless you are running cross process code. 2. If the queries take too long, I get a time out error, also leading to problem 1. And, once the errors start, they are hard to stop since the app is halted for the error, meaning data returns are probably creating errors. Finally, having spent ages trying to work out a robust timer solution in vba, akin to the vb timer, I'll post the activex solution in the next few days for general usage. If anyone would like to give it a whirl in the meantime for a bit of testing, please let me know. Thanks in advance, Robin Hammond www.enhanceddatasystems.com |
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