Hello everyone! I am new to Knime platform and seeking for your advise on how to implement this idea.
I already have an excel template file that needs to append each sheet then create a new file using the variable from flow variable. Using the excel writer node, I am able to append the said sheets.
However my issue is it overwrites the original template that I am currently using. What I am trying to accomplish is to create new file instead after it read and append the template.
TIA!
@HaroldKnime welcome to the KNIME forum.
Not sure I completely understand your problem but you could copy your Excel file to a new name/location and then append to that file.
You can absolutely read in an excel file, change the file name via a flow variable and write it back with newly appended sheets. Is this what you primarily want to do, or is this a workaround because you are losing your formatting?
The trick to keeping your formatting is that you never overwrite a sheet that contains a template or a working area. Keep the excel output from KNIME on separate support sheets and then reference them as ranges into your template / work area sheets on the excel side.
You can always read in your template sheets if you need that data, just don’t overwrite those sheets back from KNIME.
You could try the Write to Excel Template Community node in KNIME (you first need to download it)
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Very cool share @Daniel_Weikert! I have never seen this before. It looks like it will open up a lot of possibilities.
