Can any body help me with the code how to call a web service in ms excel 2013 please? i was trying to use by using WebService function in excel but that is not working for me.
To learn how to use the Webservice function, we’ll do 2 things:
Use a =WEBSERVICE(url) function to get the data
Use the =FILTERXML(xml, xpath) function to extract a single piece of data from the XML string
Use a =WEBSERVICE(url) function to get the data
First, find a web service. For this example with weather updates, go to http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api to create your free account. Complete the form, then click Signup for API Key.
To set up your API Key, follow these steps:
Select either the Cumulus Plan or the Anvil Plan, whichever you prefer.
Choose whichever option you prefer for the History add-on. Either option will work for this example because we’re not using historical information.
Select Developer. Note: The other available options also will work for this example, but note that there is a fee associated with them.
Click Update Plan.
At the top of the page, click Documentation.
On the left navigation bar titled API Table of Contents, find the Data Features heading, then under that heading, click conditions. (You can also go to http://www.wunderground.com/weather/api/d/docs?d=data/conditions)
Scroll to the bottom of the page, then copy the URL shown in the box labeled Examples. (The URL format will look like this: http://api.wunderground.com/api/[APIKey]/conditions/q/CA/San_Francisco.json). The sample URL will include your unique API Key.
Now that you have a unique API Key, open your Excel spreadsheet and follow these steps to create the =WEBSERVICE(url) function for the current weather conditions:
In cell B5, enter =WEBSERVICE(url). Then replace url with the unique URL including your API Key that you copied a moment ago.
Add quotation marks to both sides of the URL. The format will look like this: “http://api.wunderground.com/api/[APIKey]/conditions/q/CA/San_Francisco.json”
Replace the state and city in the URL with a zip code, then add .xml to the end of the URL. The formula in cell B5 should look like this: =WEBSERVICE(“http://api.wunderground.com/api/[APIKey]/conditions/[ZipCode].xml”) The[APIKey] will be your unique API Key, and the [Zip Code] will be for the location where you want weather updates.
Press Enter or Return. The formula will return an XML string from the web service.
You can also use cell references in the Webservice function to update URL parameters, such as your zip code. Here is how to set it up:
In cell B1, paste your API Key. In the Name Box, type APIkey to name the cell.
In cell B2, enter the zip code. In the Name Box, type ZipCode to name the cell.
Create your WEBSERVICE function with cell references. The formula should be in this format: =WEBSERVICE(“http://api.wunderground.com/api/” & APIkey & “/conditions/q/” & ZipCode & “.xml”)
Copy and paste the entire formula into cell B5.
Update your zip code and then you will see the update to your WEBSERVICE Function URL.
Use the =FILTERXML(xml, xpath) function to extract single pieces of data from the XML string
Now that we have the information from the web service in the Excel spreadsheet, we need to extract the pieces of data we want out of the XML, including the name of the city and current temperature and current weather conditions. To extract the data, follow these steps:
In cell B8, enter the =FILTERXML(B5,”//full”) function. This will give you the city name associated with the zip code.
In cell C8, enter =FILTERXML(B5, “//temp_f”) to extract the current temperature in Fahrenheit.
In cell D8, enter =FILTERXML(B5, “//weather”) to see the current weather condition, such as Light Rain.
With the online weather updates, now our camping trip planning collaboration spreadsheet looks like this:
A note on refreshing data
Please note that WEBSERVICE Functions are “non-volatile”, which means they refresh only when:
A referenced cell is edited
The entire workbook is refreshed (CTRL+ ALT + F9)
Remember that you can use this functionality for many different web services over the internet that you can then analyze using Excel.
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I have a Power Bi Dashboard I've made that pulls its Data from a Redcap Database using an API. It looks like this, with mostly Text in the various columns:
What I'd love to do is make it so that thee fields circled in red were real files that could be clicked and downloaded. I know that the API allows me to pull files from it. I've used R with code like this (that individually mentions what record and field I want):
library(REDCapR)
redcap_download_file_oneshot( redcap_uri="https://redcap.company.org/redcap/api/", token="################", record="1", field='full_protocol_attachment_t_v2', event = "", repeat_instrument = NULL, repeat_instance = NULL, verbose = TRUE, config_options = NULL, overwrite = TRUE )
To individually download files one at a time. The problem is twofold:
If I were to use R, I have no idea how to automate that snippet of code for every row I may pull from the database (and if there are new rows)
My understanding of PowerBi is that if I do use R, it makes refreshing the data harder when the report is published online. Right now given all the data just comes from an api directly into PowerBi, I don't have to setup any fancy permissions or gateways to have automated refreshes.
So my question is: is there a way to do this directly within PowerBi? Like a calculated column or something that would pull a particular records file based on what row it was in?
The only thing you can do in native PBI is have a URL which when clicked will open the destination for you. Can you create a full url for the file download?
I'm using BigQuery integrated with Firebase and all the datasets are in the same Project. My analytics dataset is in useast-4 but for some reason my firebase_imported_segments dataset region is just marked as US
I'd like to move data from the analytics dataset into a table in the firebase_imported_segments.
At first, I tried a simple INSERT query but I get the error firebase_imported_segments was not found in location us-east4
So then I tried building a SELECT statement and exporting the rows using "Save Results > Big Query Table" but that gives a similar error that the destination dataset is not found. Oddly enough, if I create a table in firebase_imported_segments and try to save the results using that table name, I get a "Table already exists" error. So it's not that it can't find the firebase_imported_segments dataset, it just won't create a new table in that dataset.
How can I get around this? I saw some BQ documentation that moving data between regions is possible but I didn't a simple walkthrough of how it's accomplished. I'm also confused by why firebase would put some data in one specific region (useast-4) and then other data in a multi-region (US) if they aren't compatible.
You can move datasets using "Copy" in the BigQuery UI then delete the old dataset. See Copy dataset documentation.
Option 1: Use the Copy button.
Go to the BigQuery page in the Cloud console.
In the Explorer panel, expand your project and select a dataset.
Expand the More Actions option (triple dot button) and click Open.
Click Copy. In the Copy dataset dialog that appears, do the following:
a. In the Dataset field, either create a new dataset or select an
existing dataset ID from the list.
Dataset names within a project must be unique. The project and dataset
can be in different regions, but not all regions are supported for
cross-region dataset copying.
b. In the Location field, the location of the source dataset is
displayed.
c. Optional: To overwrite both data and schema of the destination tables
with the source tables, select the Overwrite destination tables
checkbox.
d. To copy the dataset, click Copy.
To avoid additional storage costs, consider deleting the old dataset.
Option 2: Use the BigQuery Data Transfer Service.
Enable the BigQuery Data Transfer Service.
Create a transfer for your
data source.
I tested this and can confirm that it works. I created a dataset in us-east4 named analytics_us_regional and has a table named east_4_table and copied it to a dataset located in US.
Copy us-east4 to US dataset:
When copy is initiated a data transfer job is created:
Copied to US:
With regards to the data in firebase located in us-east4 based from the firebase export to BQ. When the export is enabled the first time, the user will define the location of the tables. It might be possible thatus-east4 region was selected initially.
Don't know if it will work in your case, but I had a dataset in europe-west1 and I want to copy it to EU region, I have done these two ways and it both worked:
First way:
1- Click on the dataset you want to copy and click on "COPY".
2- On the copy menu on the dataset destination click on "CREATE NEW DATA SET" and select the destination region you want that dataset to be. Click on CREATE DATA SET.
3 - On the "Copy data set" menu click on COPY.
4 - You will get an error "Cannot create a transfer in REGION_EUROPE_WEST_1 when destination dataset is located in JURISDICTION_EU" but a dataset with no tables will be created on your destination Region.
5 - Now if you try to copy the source dataset by clicking on COPY and selecting the dataset created in set 4, it will work now.
Second way: (best way)
1 - Open a New Query sheet Click on MORE- >Query settings-> Advanced options, uncheck the "Automatic location selection" and select the destination region or Multi-region you want (in my case EU).
2- On this query sheet run "CREATE SCHEMA your_new_dataset_name" -> this will create the dataset "your_new_dataset_name" in the destination region selected in point 1.
3 - Click on the dataset you want to copy and click on "COPY".
4 - On the copy menu on the Data Set destination select the dataset created in point 2, and click on COPY.
Both ways under the wood utilize the BigQuery Data Transfer Service but you don't need to access the service directly.
In fact, both ways do exactly the same thing which is creating a destination empty dataset in the correct region you want to copy yours, once you have that the Copy function will work correctly.
Is there a way to extract a table from a web page in Automation Anywhere after taking certain steps using web recorder. The table does not appear directly, it appears after clicking few controls after launching the URL.
The table that I want to extract is coming after loggin in to the website and filtering using a control for search criteria.
I used web recorder to login and putting the desired search criteria in a text field and I want to extract the table now. When I use web recorder, it launches the URL again and takes me back to the login page which I dont want. I want the bot to stay on the page. Pls help.
Also, what is the significance of session name of an extracted table?
If you clicked on Advanced View, you will find at Step 5 : to run this command using an existing IE window. Try to write the URL of the page with the table and not the one of the login page.
The extracted table is to be used using variable $Table Column(Index)$ with index being the column number or column name
you can export directly using object cloning and in the selection criteria export to csv file. But we need to click on html inner text also in search criteria
An old question, but my experience has been the Extract Data/Table commands are rather poor. Not only do they only work in IE, you cannot call them as commands, they have to be called via a web recording.
Instead, I've found it much more useful to object clone the initial element, grab the DOMXPath, and variablize that. Then throw it into a loop while command and set the condition on finding at least one element (of the elements for the table you are trying to build). You can grab all sorts of useful info in the object clone command and then right that to a variable/table.
For example
//div[#id='updatable-standings']/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/table[1]/tbody[1]/tr[3]/td[2]/div[1]/span[2]
//div[#id='updatable-standings']/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/table[1]/tbody[1]/tr[4]/td[2]/div[1]/span[2]
I can create a incremental variable for {tr[3]} and call it $vTeamLoop$ and change my DOMXPath value in the Object Clone to be
//div[#id='updatable-standings']/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/table[1]/tbody[1]/tr[$vTeamLoop$]/td[2]/div[1]/span[2]
Ultimately, it is more steps than the Data/Table Extract command, but it is far less limited in scope.
Hope that helps.
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I have a requirement to load the csv into DB using oracle apex or pl/sql code, but the problem is they are asking to load the csv file which will not come with same number of columns and column names .
I should create table & upload data dynamically based on the file name and data that i'm uploading.
For every file i need to create a new table dynamically and insert data that are present in csv file.
For Example:
File1:
col1 col2 col3 col4 (NOTE: If i upload File 1, Table should be created dynamically based on the file name and table should contain same column name and data same as column headers of csv file . )
file 2:
col1 col2 col3 col4 col 5
file 3:
col4 col2 col1 col3
Depending on the columns and file name i need to create table for every file upload.
Can we load like this or not?
If yes, Please help me on this.
Regards,
Sachin.
((Where's the PL/SQL code in this solution!!??! Bear with me... the
answer is buried in here somewhere... I introduced some considerations
and assumptions you will need to think about before going into the
task. In the end, you'll find that Oracle APEX actually has a
built-in solution that satisfies exactly what you've specified... with
some caveats.))
If you are working within the Oracle APEX platform, you will have some advantages. APEX Version 4.2 and higher has a new page element called "Data Loading". The disadvantage however is that the definition of the upload target is fixed and not dynamic. You will need to know how your table is structured prior to loading the data.
One approach to overcome this is to build a generic, two-column table as your target, which will serve for all uploads. Column 1 will be your file-name and column two will be a single clob data type, which will contain the entire data file's contents including the header row. The "Data Loading" element will give the user the opportunity to verify and select this mapping convention in a couple of clicks.
At this point, it's mostly PL/SQL backend work doing the heavy lifting to parse and transform the data uploaded. As far as the dynamic table creation, I have noticed that the Oracle package, DBMS_SQL allows the execution of DDL SQL commands, which could be the route to making custom tables.
Alex Poole's comment is important as well, you will need to make some blanket assumption about the data type or have a provision to give more clues about what kind of data is contained. Assuming you can rely on a sample of existing data values is not good... what if all the values in your upload are null? I recommend perhaps a second column in the data input with a clue about the type of data for each column... just like the intended header names, maybe: AAAAA = for a five character column, # = for a numeric, MM/DD/YYYY = for a date with a specific masking.
The easier route:
You will need to allow your end-user access to a developer-role account on a workspace of your APEX server. It is not as scary as you think. With careful instruction and some simple precautions, I have been able to make this work with even the most non-technical of users. The reason for this is that there is a more powerful upload tool found under the following menu item:
SQL Workshop --> Utilities --> Data Workshop
There is a choice under "Data Load" --> "Spreadsheet Data"
The data load tool will automatically do the following:
Accept a CSV formatted file through a browse function on your client machine
Upload the file and parse the first record for the column layout (names)
Allow the user to create a new table from the uploaded file, or to map to an existing one.
For new tables, each column data type can be declared and also a specific numeric/date mask if additional conversion from the uploaded data is necessary.
Delimiter type, optional enclosures (like double quotes), decimal conventions and currency types can also be declared prior to parsing the uploaded file.
Once the user has identified all these mappings and settings, the table is created with the uploaded data. Any errors in record upload are reported immediately afterwards with detailed feedback on the failed records.
A security consideration to note:
You probably do not want to give end users access to your APEX server's backend... but you CAN create a new workspace... just for your end users... create a new database schema for receiving their uploads, maybe with some careful resource controls. Developer is the minimum role needed... but even if the end users see the other stuff there won't be access to anything important from an isolated workspace.
I have implemented the isolated workspace approach on a 4.0/4.1 release APEX platform a few years back, and it worked nicely. Our end user had control over the staging and quality checking of her data inputs (from excel spreadsheet/csv exports collected from a combination of sources). I suppose it may have been even better to cut her out of the picture entirely and focused on automating the export-review-upload process between our database and her other sources. In this case, the volume of data involved was not great enough (100's to 1000's of records) and the need for manual review and edit of the exported data was very important prior to pushing it into the database... so the human element was still important in this case - it is something you'll want to think about now.
I have a form in which I am attaching a workflow to. The form has a number that will be auto-generated. For example the first number will be 1, the next time the form is opened the number should be 2, so on and so forth. The issue I am having is: in the Default Value under the Text Box Properties I have the Value as: count(mynumber QuoteNumber) +1. When the form is generated the first and only number is 2 the number begins at 2 and never increases. Can someone help me with this or explain what I may be doing wrong? Thank You. I'm not using visual studio.
Rachel: I have fought with this problem since InfoPath 2007. Here is how I do it.
Since you say you are attaching a workflow, I assume you are using the from in SharePoint.
1 - create your form library in SharePoint
2 - use InfoPath to design the form. When you publish the form to SP, make sure you promote AT LEAST the ID field you want to auto-inc. (I usually promote every field in my forms, 'cause I like to use them like SP lists.)
3 - In SP, create one new form and manually set the ID field to the starting number for your form series.
4 - return to InfoPath designer and re-open your form template.
5 - create a new data source to receive data from your SP form library and specify your form library as the source, and the ID field as a data element. Name the data source something like “ID Lookup”.
6 - open the properties of the field you want to auto-inc on your form and, in the default value box, select function, then choose the MAX function.
And add “+1” after the function to increment by 1.
Now, double-click in the field are of the Max function. You will see a dialog showing your form fields. Notice the drop-down at the top of the dialog – here you can choose the data source (notice I named mine “sales Contracts” in this example). If you select the data source you created in step 5, you will see a dialog showing you a couple of data branches.
Expand the ‘dataFields’ branch until you see the field you want to auto-inc. Click on this.
Your formula dialog will look something like:
max(ID_X0020) + 1
With your field name instead of the 'ID' in the Max function – the function will now return the Maximum value of the field IN THE FORM LIBRARY, plus 1.
Save the form in InfoPath and try previewing it. You will probably get a security warning – your InfoPath form is grabbing data from your SharePoint library on the fly. You may even get asked to re-enter your password (I usually do). When the new, blank form is displayed in InfoPath preview, you should see you ID field filled in with a value one greater that the number in that field of your SP library.
There is one huge Gothca with this method - if users re-open a completed form to edit it, the formula will probably try to replace the ID number. If your users don't edit the forms after they are submitted, the this will work for you.
Hope this makes sense.
You aren't doing anything wrong - you just have to change how you think about "forms" a bit. Remember a form is just like a word document template. Suppose you save a word document on your hard drive with a blank spot to fill in your name. Later you open the template, type your name, and save a copy as V1.doc. When you go back and open the template again - your name is not there because it was saved in V1.doc. Everytime you open the template you start again from scratch.
Infopath forms that you design and that the user fills out are templates (.xsn files). When the user fills it out and saves it they are really saving a copy which is only data (.xml files). The .xsn template doesn't change when users interact with it.
So to answer your question - there is no way directly in InfoPath to cleanly keep track of an auto incrementing ID. You will need to tap into some code (webservice, sharepoint, etc) to do that. You could also consider making the ID a GUID (which infopath does support) but it won't be auto incrementing and it won't look "clean" if it has to be displayed/used by real people.