Replacement of Excel Sheet Appender

[mlauber71]

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BTW, it seems that the “open after execution” is missing in the new Excel Writer. Is it correct?

Yes that is the case:

Option to open file after Excel Writer execution

Hello riddhisanghoi, we have removed this option from the new Excel Writer for two main reasons. The writer can now write to many different file systems including remote where we can not open the file with your local running Excel program. In addition the option would not work when the workflow is executed on the KNIME Server where KNIME is executed without a user interface. For which use case do you need this option? Would it be also ok if we provide you with a Component on the KNIME Hub that…

But maybe there is a way how to do it anyway:

How to Launch Excel

I was able to get Excel to launch by using this command in the Bash node: cmd /c "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE" and unchecking the Propagate stderr to Exception box. I hadn’t ever tried the CmdwInput node before, but was able to get it to work in the same way by providing the command above as an input string with a Table Creator.