How to connect to OPEN workbook in another instance of Excel SAP Issue - multiple-instances

Question

I tried to follow up with the topic here:
How to connect to OPEN workbook in another instance of Excel
But I ran into a problem,
I am not able grab the new instance name or path.
However I know I have open Excel window in another instance (opened from a SAP system) and when I open VBA editor in that SAP generated Excel file and I type: ? Thisworkbook.Path in immediate window I get nothing, no path is given and thus this solutions does not get the instance path.
What can I do to make it work ?
My issue is that this: Set xlApp = GetObject("C:\Tmp\TestData2.xlsx") is not grabbing the workbook name (including This.workbook.name or activeworkbook.name)
Any idea how else I can make VBA code in instance 1 work with workbook in instance 2?
I only want to save it nothing more, I'm using Saveas option, or at least I try.
Have anyone had a similar issue?

Answer 1

Working with the Excel files downloaded from SAP is always problematic.
You can use the module below and add before the xls.Close SaveChanges:=False this line xls.SaveAs Filename:='Any name that you want after that just place a call in your code after downloading the Excel File with
Call Close_SAP_Excel("TestData2.xlsx")
And it should work fine.
Module:
#If VBA7 Then
Private Declare PtrSafe Function AccessibleObjectFromWindow Lib "oleacc" ( _
ByVal hwnd As LongPtr, ByVal dwId As Long, riid As Any, ppvObject As Object) As Long
Private Declare PtrSafe Function FindWindowExA Lib "user32" ( _
ByVal hwndParent As LongPtr, ByVal hwndChildAfter As LongPtr, _
ByVal lpszClass As String, ByVal lpszWindow As String) As LongPtr
#Else
Private Declare Function AccessibleObjectFromWindow Lib "oleacc" ( _
ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal dwId As Long, riid As Any, ppvObject As Object) As Long
Private Declare Function FindWindowExA Lib "user32" ( _
ByVal hwndParent As Long, ByVal hwndChildAfter As Long, _
ByVal lpszClass As String, ByVal lpszWindow As String) As Long
#End If
Sub Close_SAP_Excel(ParamArray FileNames())
'Procedure to close files downloaded from SAP and at the same time close the Excel application instance that will be open with them.
Dim ExcelAppSAP As Variant
Dim ExcelFile As Variant
Dim FinishedLoop As Boolean, TimeoutReached As Boolean, FileClosed As Boolean
Dim ReTry As Long
Dim i As Long, x As Long
Set ExcelAppSAP = Nothing
ReTry = 100000 'Used as Timeout 100000 = ~10 seconds
i = 1
'The following loop is executed until excel file is closed.
'Inside of this, there is a For Loop for each Excel Instance and inside of that is another loop
'for each excel inside the instance. If name matches, it is closed.
Do While Not FinishedLoop
If i > ReTry Then
TimeoutReached = True
Exit Do
End If
For Each ExcelFile In GetExcelInstances() 'Function to Get Excel Open Instances
For Each xls In ExcelFile.Workbooks
For x = LBound(FileNames()) To UBound(FileNames())
If xls.Name = FileNames(x) Then
Set ExcelAppSAP = ExcelFile 'Set Instance opened by SAP to variable
'Here add actions if needed. Reference to workbook as xls e.g.: xls.Sheets(1).Range("A1").Copy
xls.Close SaveChanges:=False
FileClosed = True
End If
Next x
Next
Next
If FileClosed Then
FinishedLoop = True
End If
i = i + 1
Loop
ThisWorkbook.Activate
If Not TimeoutReached Then
If FileClosed Then
On Error Resume Next
If ExcelAppSAP.Workbooks.Count = 0 Then
ExcelAppSAP.Quit
End If
Else
MsgBox "Excel application instance from SAP was not closed correctly. Please close it manually or try again.", , "Error"
End If
Else
MsgBox "Max timeout reached", , "Error"
End If
End Sub
Public Function GetExcelInstances() As Collection
Dim guid&(0 To 3), acc As Object, hwnd, hwnd2, hwnd3
guid(0) = &H20400
guid(1) = &H0
guid(2) = &HC0
guid(3) = &H46000000
Set GetExcelInstances = New Collection
Do
hwnd = FindWindowExA(0, hwnd, "XLMAIN", vbNullString)
If hwnd = 0 Then Exit Do
hwnd2 = FindWindowExA(hwnd, 0, "XLDESK", vbNullString)
hwnd3 = FindWindowExA(hwnd2, 0, "EXCEL7", vbNullString)
If AccessibleObjectFromWindow(hwnd3, &HFFFFFFF0, guid(0), acc) = 0 Then
GetExcelInstances.Add acc.Application
End If
Loop
End Function