I'm creating a new excel file nightly and some nights there will be no data to populate the excel file, but I need the file to be created anyways. Is there a step in the Excel writer that I'm missing to do this?
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Always create excel file even if data is empty
Best answer by erik_jan
FME will create a file when the first feature is written. So when no features are written, no file will be created. I see two ways of bypassing this issue:
- Always create an empty record by writing a feature with no values (but that leave you with a XLS file with an empty line, even if data is written).
- Use the option not to write Filed Names first and create (using Creator and AttributeCreator) a feature with the field names as the first feature to write. That will create the file using the field names as first line.
Hope this is useful.
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