NX NX MCD Import Signals from TIA portal

Importing Signals from TIA portal will raise the following error:

Or up to NX12 Import Signals from TIA portal will raise the following warning:

Solution

Import Signals from Tia portal is importing an xlsx file and therefore it is mandatory that Microsoft Excel 
is installed to use this functionality.

Up to NX12, bad characters like comma, dot, equal sign were not recognized in the object name and
only compatible signals would be imported

Starting NX 1847 this has been fixed and signals bad characters are replaced by underscore

Hardware/Software Configuration

Platform: all
OS: n/a
OS Version: n/a
Product: NX
Application: MECHATRONICS
Version: V12.0.2
Function: SIGNAL

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