[Bug]: Cannot open isa.study.xlsx file in Excel (macos and windows)

[Mestizia]

Contact Details

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What happened?

When opening isa.study.xlsx file in Excel after adding a study sheet and populating it with headers (both macos and windows) it prompts an alert message (see screenshots). To open the file, it has to "repair it". If you then save the changes, the sheet will not appear in arcitect any longer.

The changes automatically made are the following (macos):

What did you expect?

No response

Host

ARCitect

Host Details

Excel version 16.78 (macos)

Swate version

Swate Release Version v1.0.0-beta.04

[Freymaurer]

Hello! Could you share an example file with us? I will look into this!

[Mestizia]

Here you go isa.study.xlsx

[Freymaurer]

Ah okay, i see the issue the table from worksheet NewTable0 is removed, after reopening. This makes it not readable for Swate/ARCitect. Sadly this seems to be a deeper nested issue, which might take some time to investigate.

[Freymaurer]

Hey again, i tried to investigate this issue but i am unable to reproduce it with the columns you used. I am on windows 11. You said you had the same issues on windows?

[Freymaurer]

Will close for now, feel free to reopen

[arendd]

I'm facing the same issue. I can easily reproduce it. I just created a new table and added a "Characteristics" column. When I then want to open the xlsx with Excel then i receive the mentioned warning and the file is broken afterwards.

[Freymaurer]

Hey @arendd can you upload an file? I want to checkout the exact file 🙂

[arendd]

Sure, here it is: isa.study.xlsx

[Freymaurer]

Thanks! Will look into this as soon as possible!

[arendd]

Hey Kevin, I think i have an idea, what is the reason. This error comes when creating a new empty table with just some headers, but without rows. As long as you do not add any row via "+" button you can save the table within the ARCitect, but you can not open the according xlsx with Excel. After adding at least one line, Excel no longer throws this warning. Can you reproduce this?

[Freymaurer]

Hey Kevin, I think i have an idea, what is the reason. This error comes when creating a new empty table with just some headers, but without rows. As long as you do not add any row via "+" button you can save the table within the ARCitect, but you can not open the according xlsx with Excel. After adding at least one line, Excel no longer throws this warning. Can you reproduce this?

Yes can replicate this!

@HLWeil i thought we resolved this issue somewhen in ARCtrl? I am running version [2.0.0-beta.8.swate].

[Freymaurer]

@HLWeil bump

[HLWeil]

Ah sry, overlooked this. I agree that this probably is caused by the missing body of the table.