How many excel processes can you open?

Hi,

i have created a web application which opens an excel sheet, enters some
data, calculates the data and retrieve the outcome of the calculation. This
application will be used by lots of people. Now i have heared that not too
many excel processes can be opened on the server (about 5). What is true
about this? Will this be a problem for me?

Thanks,

Stanley

From what I understand, neither Excel nor the other Office components are
not supported to run in a server environment. Doesn't mean you can't, but
it's not design for it. I can't find a link at the moment to back that up at
the moment, so I may be mistaken.
I suppose the limit of instances would be determined by memory:
http://www.decisionmodels.com/memlimitsc.htm
You would need to take of instance not closing as expected.

NickHK

"Stanley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> i have created a web application which opens an excel sheet, enters some
> data, calculates the data and retrieve the outcome of the calculation.
This
> application will be used by lots of people. Now i have heared that not too
> many excel processes can be opened on the server (about 5). What is true
> about this? Will this be a problem for me?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stanley

Too many negatives: "..neither Excel nor the other Office components are
supported..."

Having said that, does this help ?
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/022801-1.shtml

NickHK

"NickHK" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> From what I understand, neither Excel nor the other Office components are
> not supported to run in a server environment. Doesn't mean you can't, but
> it's not design for it. I can't find a link at the moment to back that up
at
> the moment, so I may be mistaken.
> I suppose the limit of instances would be determined by memory:
> http://www.decisionmodels.com/memlimitsc.htm
> You would need to take of instance not closing as expected.
>
> NickHK
>
> "Stanley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > i have created a web application which opens an excel sheet, enters some
> > data, calculates the data and retrieve the outcome of the calculation.
> This
> > application will be used by lots of people. Now i have heared that not
too
> > many excel processes can be opened on the server (about 5). What is true
> > about this? Will this be a problem for me?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Stanley
>
>

Hi Nick, thnx for the response. So it sounds plausible that you can open as
many excel processes as you can as long as memory accepts it. Think that
won't be a problem than.
Also, i have read that automating excel through web application is not
supported. But i did manage to get it working. I only need to insert data,
call a macro and read the outcome. I'm not doing any strange things with the
excelsheet.

Regards,

Stanley

"NickHK" wrote:

> Too many negatives: "..neither Excel nor the other Office components are
> supported..."
>
> Having said that, does this help ?
> http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/022801-1.shtml
>
> NickHK
>
> "NickHK" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > From what I understand, neither Excel nor the other Office components are
> > not supported to run in a server environment. Doesn't mean you can't, but
> > it's not design for it. I can't find a link at the moment to back that up
> at
> > the moment, so I may be mistaken.
> > I suppose the limit of instances would be determined by memory:
> > http://www.decisionmodels.com/memlimitsc.htm
> > You would need to take of instance not closing as expected.
> >
> > NickHK
> >
> > "Stanley" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > i have created a web application which opens an excel sheet, enters some
> > > data, calculates the data and retrieve the outcome of the calculation.
> > This
> > > application will be used by lots of people. Now i have heared that not
> too
> > > many excel processes can be opened on the server (about 5). What is true
> > > about this? Will this be a problem for me?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Stanley
> >
> >
>
>
>