I want to synchronize data for actual work from a web-based application of my company with MS Project. I am currently developing an Add-In with JavaScript in order to achieve this:
The red circle in my screenshot shows the data that I want to set programmatically. However, I have no idea how to achieve this.
I understand that I can get Task GUIDs and then set task fields using the task GUID and the field ID. This way I can save the cumulative actual work, but not per day like in my screenshot.
The API Docs on the MS Office Website are rather hard to read and navigate. Any help would be apprechiated!
Let's first separate the language from the operation.
Operationally, based on your circle, you want to set work for a task to happen on individual days? This is done using timeScaleData, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/developer/office-2003/aa206255(v=office.11) . When I did something similar (in VBA), I had to (1) get an array of time scale values, then (2) walk/iterate through that array and set work to those days:
set timeScaleValsArry = myTask.Assignments(1).TimeScaleData(startDay, endDay, pjAssignmentTimeScaledWork, daily)
for a = 1 to timeScaleValsArry.Count
timeScaleValsArry[a].value = hoursToWorkThatDay
next
Breaking down the elements above:
myTask is the task (of type task) I want to manipulate.
Assignments is an array representing each resource assigned to the task; for my purposes, I only ever had 1 resource assigned, hence the index of (1).
TimeScaleData is the function that returns the the array starting on the day startDay (whatever you want that to be), endDay, pjAssignmentTimeScaledWork which tells this function what data we want to work with (being work, but there are alternates ), and daily which is the frequency you want to work with (for instance you can go down to minutes, or up to years).
Then the returned array timeScaleValsArry is walked, and inside the loop the daily assignment for each value is manipulated. You'd need to customize this part to meet your needs; alternatively, you don't even need to loop if you always had three days: just hard code the array indices.
As far as language, clearly this is do-able in VBA. Doing this in C# as a VSTO addin has very similar syntax. I'd presume for JavaScript (what are you using, ScriptLab?) would also have similar syntax.
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I'm trying to get a better understanding of what Rows and Rowsets are used for in PeopleCode? I've read through PeopleBooks and still don't feel like I have a good understanding. I'm looking to get more understanding of these as it pertains to Application Engine programs. Perhaps walking through an example may help. Here are some specific questions I have:
I understand that Rowsets, Row, Record, and Field are used to access component buffer data, but is this still the case for stand alone Application Engine programs run via Process Scheduler?
What would be the need or advantage to using these as opposed to using SQL objects/functions (CreateSQL, SQLExec, etc...)? I often see in AE programs where the CreateRowset object is instantiated and uses a .Fill method with a SQL WHERE Clause and I don't quite understand why a SQL was not used instead.
I've seen in PeopleBooks that a Row object in a component scroll is a row, how does a component scroll relate to the row? I've seen references to rows having different scroll levels, is this just a way of grouping and nesting related data?
After you have instantiated the CreateRowset object, what are typical uses of it in the program afterwards? How would you perform logic (If, Then, Else, etc..) on data retrieved by the rowset, or use it to update data?
I appreciate any insight you can share.
You can still use Rowsets, Rows, Records and fields in stand alone Application Engines. Application Engines do not have component buffer data as they are not running within the context of a component. Therefore to use these items you need to populate them using built-in methods like .fill() on a rowset, or .selectByKey() on a record.
The advantage of using rowsets over SQL is that it makes the CRUD easier. There are built-in methods for selecting, updating, inserting and deleting. Additionally you don't have to worry about making a large number of variables if there were multiple fields like you would with a SQL object. Another advantage is when you do the fill, the data is read into memory, where if you looped through the SQL, the SQL cursor would be open longer. The rowset, row, record and field objects also have a lot of other useful methods such as allowing you to executeEdits (validation) or copy from one rowset\row\record to another.
This question is a bit less clear to me but I'll try and explain. If you have a Page, it would have a level 0 row. It then could have multiple Level 1 rowsets. Under each of those it could have a level 2 rowsets.
Level0
/ \
Level1 Level1
/ \ / \
Level2 Level2 Level2 Level2
If one of your level1 rows had 3 rows, then you would find 3 rows in the Rowset associated with that level1. Not sure I explained this to answer what you need, please clarify if I can provide more info
Typically after I create a rowset, I would loop through it. Access the record on each row, do some processing with it. In the example below, I look through all locked accounts and prefix their description with LOCKED and then updated the database.
.
Local boolean &updateResult;
local integer &i;
local record &lockedAccount;
Local rowset &lockedAccounts;
&lockedAccounts = CreateRowset(RECORD.PSOPRDEFN);
&lockedAccounts.fill("WHERE acctlock = 1");
for &i = 1 to &lockedAccounts.ActiveRowCount
&lockedAccount = &lockedAccounts(&i).PSOPRDEFN;
if left(&lockedAccount.OPRDEFNDESCR.value,6) <> "LOCKED" then
&lockedAccount.OPRDEFNDESCR.value = "LOCKED " | &lockedAccount.OPRDEFNDESCR.value;
&updateResult = &lockedAccount.update();
if not &updateResult then
/* Error handle failed update */
end-if;
end-if;
End-for;
I am trying to create a seyren alert for my page render metric stored in graphite.
My render stats are collected by ststsD and stored in graphite. The structure is following:
stats.counters.renderCompleted.display.<country>.<placement_id>.<page_version>.count
e.g.
stats.counters.renderCompleted.display.US.123456.v1_1_03.count
stats.counters.renderCompleted.display.US.123456.v1_1_09.count
stats.counters.renderCompleted.display.US.654321.v2_1_05.count
stats.counters.renderCompleted.display.US.654321.v2_1_07.count
stats.counters.renderCompleted.display.UK.123456.v1_1_09.count
...
...
I want to create a seyren alert with graphite function whenever the current render count for ANY PLACEMENT ANY VERSION (e.g. group by placement_id, page_version) falls below certain % of its (for that placement's and version's) previous day average.
I did search graphite functions but it's bit confusing probably because I don't have background in time-series data processing. Will truly appreciate any help. I tried with many combinations including the following, but not able to get it correct...
asPercent(sumSeriesWithWildCards(movingAverage(scaleToSeconds(
stats.counters.renderCompleted.display.US.*.*.count, 1),'10min'), 6),
sumSeriesWithWildCards(movingAverage(scaleToSeconds(timeShift(
stats.counters.renderCompleted.display.US.*.*.count, '1d'), 1), '10min'), 6))
Please note, I want to create only one alert (hence using WildCard function like sumSeriesWithWildCards) which should serve the purpose, not multiple alerts for individual placements and versions and we keep on adding these.
Thanks in advance.
I'm having a problem regarding the scores in my game, My game is about answering questions using jumbled letters and when the player gets one correct answer, the game should add +1 to the game score and move to the next level (which is in the next room) and will generate another question, and keeping your last score which is 1. My problem is, the score just keeps on resetting to a value of 0 when moved into the next room. I want it to continuously add +1 even when I go to the next rooms. Thankyou in advance.
There are many solutions.
1) Set your score controller object as persistent
This is the best, as you don't need to do anything else, and in fact, it's a good rule to have one object as a persistent controller.
2) You can save your score to the file and load it each time this object (that stores the variable) is being created
This requires save\load manipulation, and in some cases (e.g you don't want to have ANY persistent objects) can be better, but I highly doubt.
You are not giving enough details about how are you storing the score value.
That may be cause by many issue in the way you are making the game, so im going to try to give all solutions to all possible scenarios:
1) Storing Score in Object Variable
This way may have two different sub scenarios:
a) Going to Next Room after Right answer
b) Restart the same room
This completly reset the variable on the object because the object is destroyed and then created again initilizing again the variables it hold when the room is created.
For this the solution is simply: set persistent true, you can do it from the form object properties (the interface that pop up when you open a object) or using gml on the create event of the object:
object: CREATE event
persistent = true;
This will make the object even if is repeated on the room created to no to create it again, so the event CREATE will no be never repeated again.
2) Storing the Score in variable of the room using Room Creation Event
In this scenario happeng the same that above, its just a local variable the room but exists only for the room and will only exists during the room until its restarted or leaved.
In this case the best is to transform this variable to a global instance in the following way:
global.points = 0;
And this is the best way to store score for you game.
Just remember no to put it in a create event of a not persistent object or it will be reseted to ZERO everything that object is created.
In that case you can check if the variable exists and then if not initializing it:
if (variable_global_exists("points") == true) {
global.points = 0;
}
Now if you want to save it you need to use file functions which is another question.
I have a problem that I've been going round and round with in Access 2010. Imagine a table with these columns:
Name Date Time
Now, I have a query that asks the user to input a begin date and an end date and returns all records that are between those two dates. This works fine. However, as soon as I add a sort to the Date column things go awry. Once you put a sort on a column with a parameter the user gets asked to enter the parameter twice. From what I've been able to find out this is normal (although annoying) behavior in Access.
If I add the Date column in a second time and show the column with the sort and don't show the column with the parameter it works fine. The query would look something like:
Name Date (shown & sorted) Date (not shown & parameters) Time
Now when I run the query it all works well and comes out the way I want it to. This would obviously be a great solution then. However, there's another problem. When I save the query, leave, and reopen the query the two columns are merged back into each other. Thus, the change is lost and the user again sees two inputs.
My question is this: what can I do differently to achieve the desired results?
Some possible things I've thought about but don't know the answer to are:
Is there a way to make it so the columns don't merge? Do I have to use a form with the input boxes and take the data from that (I'd prefer not to do that as it will require a lot of additional work to handle the various things I am doing in the database). Is there some obvious thing I'm missing?
Thanks for any suggestions.
FYI: Here is the SQL from the query
SELECT Intentions.Intention, Intentions.MassDate, Intentions.[Time Requested], Intentions.[Place Requested], Intentions.[Offered By], Intentions.Completed
FROM Intentions
WHERE (((Intentions.MassDate) Between [Enter start date] And [Enter end date]))
ORDER BY Intentions.MassDate, Intentions.[Time Requested];
It is true that sometimes the Query Designer in Access will "reorganize" a query when you save it. However, I don't recall an instance where such a reorganization actually broke anything.
For what it's worth, the following query seems to do what you desire. After saving and re-opening it looks and behaves just the same:
For reference, the SQL behind it is
PARAMETERS startDate DateTime, endDate DateTime;
SELECT NameDateTime.Name, NameDateTime.Date, NameDateTime.Time
FROM NameDateTime
WHERE (((NameDateTime.Date) Between [startDate] And [endDate]))
ORDER BY NameDateTime.Date DESC , NameDateTime.Time DESC;
I have had the same problem and I have discovered the reason:
If, after you have run your query, sort a collumn in the result grid and the say yes to save changes to the query the sort action will be stored with the query. This will actually cause the query to run twice. First to create the result and then one more time to sort. You'll therefore be asked twice for the parameters.
SOLUTION: Run the query (entering your parameters twice ;-) ). Then remove the Sorting by clicking on the AZ-eraser symbol in the task bar above (in the sorting compartment).
Then open your query in design-mode and add the sorting order to the appropriate collumn.
Your are then good to go.
Regards
Jan
We are in the process of converting a rather large PHP/MySQL project to Angular/Node.js/CouchDB. The main problem I am running into now is that our MySQL queries are rather complicated, using a lot of date functions (like DATE_DIFF, DATE_FORMAT, etc.) and I don't know how to convert them to this new architecture.
How do most devs handle those types of functions in CouchDB? Do they just pull the raw data from the database and leave all of the calculations up to the controller/front-end?
Example query:
SELECT DATE_DIFF(NOW(),table.datefrom) as how_long, DATE_FORMAT(table.datefrom,'%m/%d/%Y') as formatted_date FROM table ORDER BY datefrom
How would that query be handled with CouchDB?
Datetimes are not a "native" type in CouchDB. However, you have several good options that you can choose between depending on the situation.
You can use a "timestamp" numeric value. (either in the native milliseconds, or converted to seconds if needed) You can get a timestamp for "now" with (new Date()).valueOf().
You can also break up the parts of your datetimes into an array. ([ year, month, day, hour, minute, second ]) This will enable you to use grouping to "drill down" into increasingly specific time-frames as well as query based on individual parts of the date.
If you want date manipulation and formatting from a tested library, you can pull in a 3rd party module like moment.js as a CommonJS module that you can use in your view/show/list/etc.
I can see one potential issue with your example query above. You are basically getting a "seconds since" via DATE_DIFF(NOW(), ...). In a view function, you won't be able to use a "transient" value like NOW() since views need to remain unaffected by outside variables/conditions. However, this is solved by adding a list function that can take your view results and transform the output to have "relative" values like what you are trying to achieve, and can also receieve querystring arguments to further add dynamism to your view.