Greetings,

Sure you can use a spreadsheet without column headers.

Reading the below, sounds like you are opening the spreadsheet with
"direct update" set. Direct update allows you to write back to the
source spreadsheet  -but it would have this behavior of creating a
column to do so.

I'd suggest reopening the file with the DataStation  - see if there's
any checkboxes set - if there are, uncheck them.

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 10:57 AM
To: Talk
Subject: [talkbws] Simply question....for a beginner

 

I am new to BWS and was asked to create a simple script.  I don't use
the tool often, so the basics are slowly coming back to me - when you
don't use, you do loose.

 

Does the "source" spreadsheet need to have column headers?  The excel
spreadsheet I am working with for this script doesn't, so I thought I
could use the D("1"), D("2)", etc. as designation  - instead of column
headers.  This works for the first cycle of record processing, but once
the Status is updated, it shifts the first column to be the second
column and the scripts goes into a loop because what I am checking in
D("1") is blank, instead of a the numbers we are validating.

 

Example below is what the datastation looks like when the first record
is processing - note 6 columns:

 

 

 

Example below is what the datastation looks like when the second record
is processed - note 7 columns:

 

 

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