Can Blue Prism check if an Ms Office file is locked by another user (human resource)

[Gulam_AbbasAlwa]

Hello, One of my requirements is to update information in a file saved on the shared drive. However, before Blue Prism opens the file, I want to add a step to check if another human resource has opened the file. Is there a way I can do that? Thanks, Abbas

[MelissaSuarez_G]

Not out of the box. But Blue Prism have the option of creating your own utility with a code stage that checks if the file is already open. Something like this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11287502/vb-net-checking-if-a-file-is-open-before-proceeding-with-a-read-write

[Gulam_AbbasAlwa]

Thanks Melissa. I'll give that a go. Cheers

[MelissaSuarez_G]

I just noticed that the MS Excel object has an action called ""Is Read Only"". I haven't used it, but it might work too.