Crash when exporting empty group to Excel

[JeffvdN]

I run a big routine every week that involves a lot of exports to excel. I know this should be avoided but evidently there were some instances when it was trying to export empty groups using the wfsave command. It the past, it seemed to do it, exporting only the dates. Earlier this week, I applied the latest patch to Eviews 12 (July 6). Now the program crashes on these exports (closes Eviews, no error message). I am not sure if the patch changed the behavior but it seems like it may have. Is this possible?

I took out these unnecessary exports, and added some error checking before the wfsave commands to make sure the groups are not empty. That works for me. I just thought you might like to know about the crashing. It might be nice to trap the error before it crashes completely. With no error messages, it took me a while to find the problem.

Here is the code that crashes Eviews

'making sure the group does not exist
delete(noerr) NewGroup

'create empty group
group NewGroup
wfsave(type=excelxml, mode=update) ExcelFile.xlsx range="sheet1!c3" @keep NewGroup @smpl 1967m1 2022m66

[EViews Gareth]

Confirmed, we'll fix.