Hello Monks! I am writing a script that would refresh the data connections within a few excel files but the refresh command I am using via Win32::OLE module is not working as I had hoped and read online. I have looked quite a bit online on different ways to refresh the data connections, create a macro and run the macro via perl, a prog written in C# specifically to refresh executable via perl, etc. but have not had much luck. I believe the issue is primarily because its Excel 2013, because the machine I have to access the DB has 2013 I can't test my code with an older excel version to be absolute certain. Can you please provide some guidance on how I can successfully refresh data connections in Excel 2013. See below a snippet of my refresh code. Many Thanks in advance! 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE;

my $filename = 'C:\refresh_test.xlsx';

my $Excel;
$Excel = Win32::OLE->new('Excel.Application', 'Quit');

$Excel->{DisplayAlerts} = "False";
$Excel->{Visible} = 1;  

my $wb = $Excel->Workbooks->Open($filename);

$wb->RefreshAll;

$wb->Save;
$wb->Close;

$Excel->Quit();

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In reply to Excel 2013 Data Connection Refresh by sowais

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