@rashmi - Here is an updated pipeline that will remove the first row. The pipeline itself is a little less elegant now, but the concept is pretty simple. The top path is basically the original ZipFile Read to get the elements of the Excel file, then discards the sheet1 data. The second path that starts with the File Reader is using the Excel Parser to read the sheet1 contents, discards the first row, then creates a temporary Excel file with only the sheet1 data - then we read that temporary Excel file with the ZipFile Read snap and discard everything except the sheet1 data, then merge that with the top path to create the target Excel file.
Community 13302 - Excel Remove A1 from sheet1_2022_09_07.slp (24.5 KB)
This seems to work with my testing files, but note that the Excel Formatter does not support cell formatting (bold, italics, background color, cell spanning, etc.) so you would lose that in sheet1 with this method.
A couple things to note in this example:
- Temporary file uses the pipe.tmpDir built-in property - I love this feature since it references a temporary directory that is automatically deleted when the pipeline ends
- The “unused” or “garbage” paths of the Binary Routers are using a Script snap (Consume input) to consume the unwanted input documents so we don’t have any open output ports in the pipeline. This is technically only required when a pipeline is used as a Triggered Task or as a child pipeline called via Pipeline Execute from another pipeline, but it is a recommended best practice to close unused open output ports in your pipeline.
