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Is it possible to open an excel file in oracle forms?

Hello everyone,
I'm trying to open a specific excel file in oracle forms by creating a button with a when pressed button trigger, so I learned about one of the method to do that by the following query:
DECLARE
AppID PLS_INTEGER;
BEGIN
AppID := DDE.App_Begin('C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE );
END;
but the problem is this query is opening a new empty excel sheet, so I tried to modify the query to open the specific excel file that I want and I came with this query:
DECLARE
AppID PLS_INTEGER;
BEGIN
AppID := DDE.App_Begin('C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE D:\Spools\data.xlsx',DDE.APP_MODE_MINIMIZED);
END;
but unfortunately I'm facing this message after pressing the button.
Any suggestion please ?
Answers
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This question is probably better suited to the forms community.
It is likely that wherever your form is actually running doesn't know about your D: drive.
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I'm assuming here your file is located in the D: on the server and not on the client. Of course the client can't access a file on the server.
Possible solutions are placing the file in a shared drive the client can see or transferring the file to the client using webutil.
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Thank you sir for you reply, I tried to place both files in a shared drive but still I have the same issue.
DECLARE
AppID PLS_INTEGER;
BEGIN
AppID := DDE.App_Begin('C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE C:\forms2\data1.xlsx',DDE.APP_MODE_MINIMIZED);
END;