KB94274263: ArtiosCAD - VBS error or crash when using BOM XLS report

Summary

ArtiosCAD does not process the Billing of Materials (BOM) XLS report, ends abruptly without warning.

Symptoms

You may receive one or more of the following errors or warnings:

• Error screens about a character in a specific line, in a specific position.
• ArtiosCAD will not process the BOM XLS request, ArtiosCAD just returns to the workspace.
• Errors related to CSSCRIPT.EXE (Microsoft application used to process VBS files).

Solution

Please review the datafields in the designs in the projects for any characters like commas or quotes or special characters. See the following article for more information:  

Any special character could have a damaging effect on processing the BOM XLS type report.