VBScript Cannot Find file Specified Server 2003 - excel

Question

I have the following code:
set app = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set wb = app.Workbooks.Open("Y:\Billing_Common\autoemail\*.xls")
set sh = wb.Sheets("Auto Email Script")
row = 2
name = "Customer"
email = sh.Range("A" & row)
subject = "Billing"
the = "the"
LastRow = sh.UsedRange.Rows.Count
For r = row to LastRow
If App.WorkSheetFunction.CountA(sh.Rows(r)) <> 0 Then
SendMessage email, name, subject, TRUE, _
NULL, "Y:\Billing_Common\autoemail\Script\energia-logo.gif", 143,393
row = row + 1
email = sh.Range("A" & row)
End if
Next
wb.close
set wb = nothing
set app = nothing
Sub SendMessage(EmailAddress, DisplayName, Subject, DisplayMsg, AttachmentPath, ImagePath, ImageHeight, ImageWidth)
' Create the Outlook session.
Set objOutlook = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
template = FindTemplate()
' Create the message.
Set objOutlookMsg = objOutlook.CreateItem(0)
With objOutlookMsg
' Add the To recipient(s) to the message.
Set objOutlookRecip = .Recipients.Add(EmailAddress)
objOutlookRecip.resolve
objOutlookRecip.Type = 1
' Set the Subject, Body, and Importance of the message.
.Subject = Subject
.bodyformat = 3
.Importance = 2 'High importance
body = Replace(template, "{First}", name)
body = Replace(body, "{the}", the)
if not isNull(ImagePath) then
if not ImagePath = "" then
.Attachments.add ImagePath
image = split(ImagePath,"\")(ubound(split(ImagePath,"\")))
body = Replace(body, "{image}", "<img src='cid:" & image & _
"'" & " height=" & ImageHeight &" width=" & ImageWidth & ">")
end if
else
body = Replace(body, "{image}", "")
end if
if not isNull(AttachMentPath) then
.Attachments.add AttachmentPath
end if
.HTMLBody = body
.Save
.Send
End With
Set objOutlook = Nothing
End Sub
Function FindTemplate()
Set OL = GetObject("", "Outlook.Application")
set Drafts = OL.GetNamespace("MAPI").GetDefaultFolder(16)
Set oItems = Drafts.Items
For Each Draft In oItems
If Draft.subject = "Template" Then
FindTemplate = Draft.HTMLBody
Exit Function
End If
Next
End Function
It works fine when run off my local machine, but when run off Windows server it throws out an error at the line:
Set wb = app.Workbooks.Open("Y:\Billing_Common\autoemail\*.xls")
Saying it cannot find the file specified, the server has Office 2003 on it and I have ran out of ideas on why it's not working.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Thanks.

Answer 1

Most likely the Open method of Office 2003 doesn't support wildcards in the path. You'll have to enumerate the files in that folder:
Set app = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
For Each f In fso.GetFolder("Y:\Billing_Common\autoemail").Files
If LCase(fso.GetExtensionName(f)) = "xls" Then
Set wb = app.Workbooks.Open(f.Path)
...
wb.Close
End If
Next