How to install VCL Grid Excel Bridge for Delphi 12

[embarcadero_aav]

Greetings,
We recently purchased and installed Flexcel (with tmsgui.exe); and in reviewing I found this TMS VCL Grid Excel Bridge product page.

If applicable to our installation. How to install this bridge product?

If I run the setup.exe it tells me that we do not have the product.

Setup
TMS FlexCel Studio for VCL and FireMonkey is not installed. Please abort this installation, install TMS FlexCel Studio for VCL and FireMonkey and try again.

If I try with tms.exe:

tms install tms.vcl.excel.bridge

[15:52:13] === Repository Summary ===
[15:52:13]
[15:52:13] Starting build...
[15:52:13] Configuration file: C:\tms\tms.config.yaml
[15:52:13]
[15:52:13] Analyzing products...
[15:52:13] WARNING: The project "tms.vcl.excel.bridge" in the section "included products" was not found. Verify there are no typos.
[15:52:13] Ok
[15:52:13] Parallel build. Using a maximum of 16 threads.
[15:52:13] Skipping TMS FlexCel Studio for VCL and FMX 7.22.1. Ignored in command line or the config file
[15:52:13] All projects built.
[15:52:13] === Build Summary ===
[15:52:13]   - TMS FlexCel Studio for VCL and FMX 7.22.1 -> IGNORED.
[15:52:13]
[15:52:13] Build finished. Elapsed time: 00:00:00.0079377
[15:52:13]
[15:52:13] Install finished. Elapsed time: 00:00:00.9509385

Regards

[adrian]

Hi,
The old setup in the page is deprecated, you should install with smartsetup.
tms install tms.vcl.excel.bridge should work, and it should actually install FlexCel and TMS UI Pack if needed (and keep them up to date when you update), but you need to have licenses for both TMS UI Pack and FlexCel.

Do you have both licenses?
What does the command:

tms list-remote

reports?

[embarcadero_aav]

Thanks.
We only have the Flexel license, hence why I can't install it.

>tms list-remote
tms.flexcel.vcl (7.22.1)

[adrian]

Hi,
It makes sense then. The bridges are a component that can be attached to a TAdvStringGrid (From TMS UI Pack) and it allows you to export the grid to xlsx using FlexCel. While the bridges themselves are free, you need to have an AdvStringGrid to use it, and for that you need a UI Pack license. The bridges themselves are of no use without UIPack and FlexCel.