Thanks for the information. Unfortunately, I need to run as a specific
user so the option there to interact with the desktop is not available. I
just discovered a work-around to start the slave from command-line instead
of the service. I just created a .bat that I added to the startup folder
Go into the Services snap-in and right click on the service. Then go to the
LogOn tab and make sure that the checkbox is checked ("Allow to interact
with desktop) if you are running as the local system account. There was a
weirdness that I ran into when one of my jobs had to open Excel that the
"h
Yes, this is a slave machine I setup that is dedicated to running these
Macros. I setup the slaving to launch using Java Web Start. Then once I
launched it the first time I installed the Windows Service. How would I go
about setting this flag to allow it to interact with the desktop?
Thanks!
How are you running Jenkins? Are you running it as a service? If so, the
service needs the flag set that allows it to interact with the desktop.
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On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Peter Soncek wrote:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I want to run some Microsoft Office Word and Excel Macros from a Jenkin
Hi Everybody,
I want to run some Microsoft Office Word and Excel Macros from a Jenkins
job. These macros are actually invoked from an Ant script. I currently
run these through our older Cruise Control machine that we are replacing
with Jenkins. From the Cruise Control job, Word actually open
