Saved Group Excel Files Dont Open Automatically

Hello,

I have forwarded your report to the Stardock support team for their review and recommendations.

Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates.

We really do appreciate your feedback, thanks.

AzDude
Stardock Community Assistant

Hello,

Sorry to hear you are having issues. I never have problem grouping excel worksheet and opening it in a group.

Here how I did it.

1) Create 2 or more excel worksheets with different names. Save it.

2) Group those saved excel worksheets into groupy.

3) Saved the group + gave it a unique name.

Here a sample of my saved group.

[GroupyEntry1]
OwnerProcess=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE
RunElevated=0
Target="D:\oldLibraries\Documents\Stardock\Test Folder\Excel test3.xlsx"
NoPatternMatching=1
MatchingClass=XLMAIN
[GroupyEntry2]
OwnerProcess=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE
RunElevated=0
Target="D:\oldLibraries\Documents\Stardock\Test Folder\Excel test2.xlsx"
NoPatternMatching=1
MatchingClass=XLMAIN
[GroupyEntry3]
OwnerProcess=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE
RunElevated=0
Target="D:\oldLibraries\Documents\Stardock\Test Folder\Excel test1.xlsx"
NoPatternMatching=1
MatchingClass=XLMAIN
[Group]
GroupCount=3
GroupLeft=-14
GroupTop=0
GroupRight=1454
GroupBottom=854
GroupMax=1

If you follow my steps and still have problem. Please post your saved group here so we can see where the problem come from.

Thanks

Basj,

Stardock Community Assistant.

When I view the Shared Group in Notepad I get:

[GroupyEntry1]
OwnerProcess=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE
RunElevated=0
Target=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE
NoPatternMatching=0
MatchingClass=XLMAIN
[GroupyEntry2]
OwnerProcess=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE
RunElevated=0
Target=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE
NoPatternMatching=0
MatchingClass=XLMAIN
[GroupyEntry3]
OwnerProcess=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE
RunElevated=0
Target=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE
NoPatternMatching=0
MatchingClass=XLMAIN
[GroupyEntry4]
OwnerProcess=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE
RunElevated=0
Target=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\EXCEL.EXE
NoPatternMatching=0
MatchingClass=XLMAIN
[Group]
GroupCount=4
GroupLeft=41
GroupTop=5
GroupRight=1915
GroupBottom=1044
GroupMax=0

For some reason it does not seem to be setting the Target property properly. Perhaps it is because I am connecting to my home computer through Remote Desktop when I created the group. I cant imagine this should be a problem as Remote Desktop operates as if I am sitting in the chair for that computer.

These specific files are also located on my NAS drive so perhaps it has something to do with a remote path to the file (all your paths in the sample above were local).

I'll manually change the Target paths. I imagine that should fix it but in the meantime you might want to explore these scenarios.

Thanks. 

That is very likely an issue.  If you have not already, try mapping the drive to a drive letter so it is a literal path and not \\Something.

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Sean Drohan
Stardock Customer Service Manager

After changing Targets and to a mapped path it is kinda working...

Now when launching the Saved Group it starts all four instances of the spreadsheets automatically but none of them are grouped.

I changed the Groupy settings to 'Auto group identical applications' and it now kinda works. It starts by loading the last target spreadsheet (in the script) which I'll call EX4 and then sequentially the four spreadsheets in the Saved Group, in order, but I end up with 5 excel spreadsheets in the group (should be 4) with two instances of EX4 (One instance of showing in position 1 of the group and one instance in the last position of the group).

Its a simple matter to close one of the EX4 spreadsheet instances but this is not the expected behavior.

Thanks. 

What I would like to include in your tests is having Excel open already - then opening up a saved group.  I want to see if the abrupt nature of Groupy sending multiple open requests is making it so the app, that is opening for the first time, is just not able to keep up.  This would be even more exaggerated on a PC of sub modest specs. 

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Sean Drohan
Stardock Customer Service Manager

Thanks for your attentiveness Sean. Great customer service. Sorry about the delay in responding.

I have now had almost two weeks now of working with Groupy and have found the tool useful for jumping between spreadsheets and PDF documents and in general keeping my windows and applications closer to my fingertips. However the Saved Groups function is, frankly, fairly buggy at the moment and not reliable enough to use.

I don't have the time to walk through all the debugging with Stardock on this but I think you have enough of a description to replicate the problems at your end. I'll let you guys work out the kinks and revisit Saved Groups at a later date.

Despite the issues specifically with Saved Groups I think the product is well worth the price and Saved Groups is really a "would be nice feature" anyways that does not detract from its intended function.

You can probably close the thread. Thanks for the cool tool!