https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/short-dump/m-p/4441530#M1053722 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I solved my problem. I am using WS_Excel instead of SAP_STARTS_EXCEL.</P><P></P><P>Thanks guys for your valuable time and efforts.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:01:40 GMT Former Member 2008-09-19T14:01:40Z https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/short-dump/m-p/4441527#M1053719 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I am getting an error while using FM SAP_STARTS_EXCEL.</P><P>The short dump gives following error analysis:</P><P></P><P>The exception, which is assigned to class 'CX_SY_REF_IS_INITIAL', was not caught in procedure "SAP_STARTS_EXCEL" ....</P><P></P><P>'You attempted to use a 'NULL' object reference (points to 'nothing') access a component.'</P><P></P><P>Any idea?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:51:49 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/short-dump/m-p/4441527#M1053719 Former Member 2008-09-18T14:51:49Z https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/short-dump/m-p/4441528#M1053720 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Could you post some code snipets that show variable declaration, assigment and function call? Perhaps seeing that could help us narrow it down.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:05:15 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/short-dump/m-p/4441528#M1053720 Former Member 2008-09-18T15:05:15Z https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/short-dump/m-p/4441529#M1053721 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Search for OSS since it is an standard one.</P><P>as i searched with CX_SY_REF_IS_INITIAL i got 2137 results for OSS.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 04:59:09 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/short-dump/m-p/4441529#M1053721 Former Member 2008-09-19T04:59:09Z https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/short-dump/m-p/4441530#M1053722 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I solved my problem. I am using WS_Excel instead of SAP_STARTS_EXCEL.</P><P></P><P>Thanks guys for your valuable time and efforts.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:01:40 GMT https://community.sap.com/t5/application-development-and-automation-discussions/short-dump/m-p/4441530#M1053722 Former Member 2008-09-19T14:01:40Z