I am working in blueprism and I have to loop through a collection to write back certain columns in the collection to a word file (using Business Object: MS Word VBO, and Action: Type Text). The current setup writes the collection columns values at the beginning of the word file. I would like to have those collection columns to be written in a specific table that already exists in my word template file. How can I achieve that?
Current process:
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The current way the collection column values are written in word file:
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I tried Set Table Cell Value and it solved my problem.
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In NetSuite, I am setting up a new (currently untitled) saved search that is meant to display three columns simultaneously: Invoice document number, Sales Order document number and Item Fulfillment document number.
I have configured my transaction saved search to display invoice document type. Sales Order document number is called Created From which is a NetSuite-created field and displays normally as desired.
There is a field called Document Number, unfortunately it responds closely to the criteria setting whether document types are set to Invoice or set to Item Fulfillment. Setting both does not meet my desired output.
I believe there is a way to somehow have all three document numbers present in the same saved search as their own unique columns.
While editing the saved search, I have attempted to create a new column called "Formula (text)" which is a field containing the formula {number}, this column appears as a second Invoice document number instead of the desired Item Fulfillment document number.
While editing the saved search, I have also tried another "Formula (text)" field containing the formula {tranid} which also results as another Invoice document number column instead of the desired Item Fulfillment document number.
Result of both above attempts: https://i.ibb.co/KyDP7Z5/2019-06-12-13-55-58-Window.png
I tried going to Customization > Lists, Records & Fields > Transaction Line Fields to create a new custom field, containing the above as defaulted formulas. The result is exactly that of the above image.
I tried going to Customization > Lists, Records & Fields > Transaction Body Fields to create a new custom field, where the content is referenced by another Saved Search. I expected that if I can pick the document number column from the "item fulfillment lookup" saved search, then that would appear as a separate column bearing the Item Fulfillment number.
I marked the document number column inside the "item fulfillment lookup" saved search as the summary type: "group" as well as give this saved search "Document Number" as an available filter in order for the "item fulfillment lookup" saved search to appear for custom columns.
Unfortunately, this yielded an empty blank column.
I know and I admit that I am doing something incorrect and would much appreciate it if there is an alternative solution or workaround to achieve this desired objective (all three document numbers to appear in a single saved search).
In your saved search Columns, at the end of the drop down list where you choose the columns, you can choose related records fields.
You didn't say which record your search is based on, but assuming your search criteria is on Sales Order, then you can use the following:
To get the related Item Fulfillment:
Fulfilling/Receiving Transaction Fields ... and then choose Document Number
To get the related Invoice:
Applying Transaction fields ... and then choose Document Number
I want collect Financial historical data from NASDAQ link https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/ge/historical. In this I am spying date element and using "get table" I can get whole table data for date, open, high,... which I am putting in collection but the thing is I am not able to give column name to collection. I made 6 field for each all 6 column you can see in image attched. But when i run the programv I get an error "Internal : Collection fields are defined but cannot be matched to the incoming collection - The collection definition does not contain the field Column1". if I dont add field I get data in collection which has default column name column 1, column 2, ...column 6 . But I want to have their specific column name. I think the problem is with the data type I am using while creating field in collection. I tried different combination for the data type but still...Please help me on that. enter image description hereimage 1image 2
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The error is exactly as it says; the fields cannot be matched; in other words, the fields should match. Since you get default field names from the Read stage, then you should either rename the fields before passing the collection to the process or have the collection receiving the collection at the process level have no fields defined (it will get the headers defined from the object and you can rename the fields after that, or just use the default column names, but that's not practical).
To rename the fields, you can use the default object "Utility - Collection Manipulation", either actions "Rename Collection Fields" or "Rename Field".
Rename Collection Fields
You will have to supply the collection containing the read table (Main Collection) and a collection containing the same headers as the collection containing the read table (New Headers), and in the first row, the new headers (it was designed like that, it's not that intuitive; it took me a good while to figure it out). The collection New Headers should look like the below:
Rename Field
For this one, you will need to loop over each header. Collection In will be the collection containing the read table, and you insert each header to change one at a time. (e.g. first loop iteration will have Column1 as Field Name and date as New Name, second loop iteration will have Column2 and open, etc)
I am new to blue prism. I have a scenario where I am giving input (passengers details for traveling) to a travel portal and based on the input its generating a booking reference number, total cost etc. Now I want to read all the outputs into a collection but the problem is data is not tabular (cant use Get Table in read component). Its just the details of travel which are populating into textboxes. Please find attached the screen shot to have more clarity on this.
How to achieve this? Any leads will be appreciated.
Based on the screenshot you've provided, this is part of the Blue Prism Advanced Consolidation Exercise ("BPTravel").
"Get Table" won't work on this data because it is not a table. As you've mentioned, the data is presented in a series of textboxes.
The way to tabularize this data would be to create a Collection in your Process and manually define each of the Field Names in the collection, then read each text field in individually to the correct column in the collection.
Read each text box data into data item. Create a named collection (i.e Collection with pre-defined column name). Loop through the collection.column_name(You will be getting column name as collection by using Utility - Collection Manipulation action and get the column names) and first add a row to collection and assign values to collection fields
EDIT: For context, I am trying to import a certain range of columns in an Excel sheet into a Blue Prism object as a collection.
So I've got a worksheet with columns from A to AM. When I get sheet as collection, blank columns named "Column1" to "Column10" (the first time) and "Column1" to "Column19" (the second time, note its 19 cols this time) mysteriously appear in the collection. No data is in these columns - no whitespace, nothing.
In order to prevent anything of the sort from messing up the collection cols, I'm looking for a way to get a range of columns as a collection, e.g. A - AM. The number of rows is undetermined, so the get range as collection action is not suitable. Thanks in advance!
I never really liked the default object to get range as collection because of that. You can create a new action in the Excel VBO object (do make sure to be careful with that since re-importing the default object will basically erase the action. I usually rename it as 'MS Excel VBO Customized' or something along those lines).
The way I would do it is as follows:
Open the 'MS Excel VBO' object and duplicate the page 'Get Worksheet Rage as Collection' and name it 'Get Worksheet Range as Collection New' (or anything you deem suitable):
Edit the code stage: give it a new name (because code stages cannot have the same name in the same object) and change the inputs and code stages to match the following (I'm calling the new range as 'Address' here, but feel free to name it something else as long as you are consistent throughout):
Edit the start stage. You can delete the previous data items for Start Cell and End Cell and create one for Address:
Publish and save the object. You can then use it from the object or process you are working on and use a range such as A:AM.
I am trying to create a report putting a field called contact which has the name of a person. This name is linked directly to another table where I keep all the contacts.
For some strange reason, when I include this name (which in query view displays as the name of the contact), instead of the name appearing, the unique ID number is shown on my report.
As mentioned in the article cited in the above comment, you can use a Combo Box control on your report to do the lookup for you. To see how this can be done, create a new report based on the table containing the lookup field, then drag and drop that field onto the report. That will create a Combo Box control with properties that look something like this:
Row Source: SELECT [Clients].[ID], [Clients].[LastName] FROM Clients;
Bound Column: 1
Column Count: 2
Column Widths: 0";1"
You could use a similar Combo Box control on your actual report to display the client's name rather than their numeric ID value.
Another alternative would be to change the Control Source of the report's Text Box control to have it do a DLookUp() on the table. If the lookup field is named [client] then changing the Control Source of the Text Box to something like
=DLookUp("LastName","Clients","ID=" & [client])
would also work.
I wanted to add to the great answer by Gord:
When using a "web" database (started in Access 2007 I think), you cannot change a report's fields to ComboBox style, nor can you use DLookUp(). (web databases lack a ton of features)
The workaround for this, if you want to create a Web-Report that uses lookup fields, is to create a Web-Query first based on your Web-Table (all the Web-* stuff has a www planet icon over the logo, if you create a new Web-DB in Access 2007+ you'll see what I mean)
So, instead of Table -> Report, you'll have to do W-Table -> W-Query -> W-Report.
Then, the only thing you need to customize to get the data right is the W-Query. Start by trying to reproduce the look in the query to match what you want users to see in the report. Note that here in the query, lookups will work fine (instead of the unique ID's, you get field names like you want). However, this will not carry over to the report. To do that, you gotta get the actual text field name you want into the query:
You should already have one table in your query; start by adding the table that your first lookup field points to. For example, the table I want to print is called Stock_Boards, and it has a lookup field called PCBID_lookup that points to the table Stock_PCBs.
Since you're using lookup fields, there should already be a relationship line between the two tables when you add the second one. If there isn't, something has gone horribly wrong.
Now, see how that line connects two fields on the two different tables? For example, I've got my PCBID_lookup field on my Stock_Boards table, which connects to the ID field on my Stock_PCBs table. If I created a report from this now, PCBID_lookup would be a number, a number that correlates to the ID of a record on Stock_PCBs.
To fix it, I will add the name field I want to show up on the report. In my example, that happens to be a Part Number, rather than the ID. I add the PartNumber field from my Stock_PCBs table to the query, and remove the PCBID_lookup field of the Stock_Boards table from my query.
Since PartNumber is what I want to show up on my report, it effectively replaces the original field (PCBID_lookup)
Repeat for all lookup fields you want in your report.
I had 1 more: I removed the Status field of the Stock_Boards table (which was an ID/Lookup) and added the 'Status' field from the Status table (which was the actual text name)
When finished, your query should look exactly how you want the data to appear, without any special tricks or asking Access to do something unnatural. Save your query, and create a web-report from it. Done!