Hi I am new to Automation Anywhere and want to create a learning instance to extract data from invoices. I have created a learning instance with all the necessary fields. However I am not sure about the steps to training and validating it. I am also stuck at the Process Document stage where I don't know what to put in the 'Download data to" field.
I am currently using the free community edition.
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I have a data model in Power BI desktop. I'd like to publish it to the server, but I'd also like to have an internal report run MDX (or DAX) queries against it. Is this possible? Can I just create a connection string and connect to Power BI like to a SSAS Cube? Maybe using the REST APIs?
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Thanks for your answers. Kyle gave me the best answer to my question, so I accepted his, but all of you made me clear that I'd better just use SSAS. This is what I did, with some hassle of seeing up HTTP bridge, but it works like a charm now.
It actually is possible in a literal sense - every time you run PowerBI, it creates a behind-the-scenes instance of SSAS Tabular that you can connect to and run queries against. Obviously this isn't directly supported by Microsoft, but I leave these steps in case anyone else wants to know how:
Navigate to %user%/AppData/Local/Temp/Power BI Desktop
Open your PowerBI Desktop model
A new folder will appear in the temp folder, inside that is a folder called AnalysisServicesWorkspace1111111111 (numbers at end are random)
Inside that folder is a file, msmdsrv.port.txt, which contains the port number (portnum) on which the SSAS Tabular model is running
You can open SSMS and connect to Analysis Services server localhost:portnum
The specific database instance you can find either via SSMS or the name of the GUID folder in the workspace folder (it'll be something like "33df46dd-8c77-46eb-bf01-8d545f626723.0.db")
Or you can use this as the server / catalog in an SSAS connection string i.e.
Provider=MSOLAP.5;Integrated Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=True;
Initial Catalog=databasename;Data Source=localhost:portnum;
MDX Compatibility=1;Safety Options=2;MDX Missing Member Mode=Error
Also, for devs of note, inside that *.db folder is a SQLite database which contains all the PowerBI model metadata, you can modify it via code and have it persist as long as you do something trivial in the UI such as select add calculated column and then click away.
To my knowledge this is not possible. Whether there is a workaround or not, I don't know.
You're probably better served using SSAS and connecting to a model in that both from Power BI with the AS Connector and for whatever DAX queries you need to run against it.
By publish, if you mean to put it out on SharePoint, then, YES there is a way to access it.
PowerPivot for SharePoint actually consists of two components. First, there is the Service Application that runs in the SharePoint farm that is responsible for performing data refreshes, and usage analytics. The main part however is actually an instance of Analysis Services using the tabular engine. It’s properly referred to as Analysis Services SharePoint Mode, and as of SharePoint 2013/SQL Server 2012 SP1, it can be installed standalone. However, it is most commonly installed on SharePoint front end servers.
In the case above, the SharePoint front end server is named NautilusSP. You can also see that there is a model being hosted by the server already. The model is named by taking a workbook, and adding a GUID to it. This is done by Excel Services the first time that a model is interacted with. For example, if we add the file Health.xlsx, which contains an embedded PowerPivot model, and immediately refresh the object explorer in Management Studio, we will see that nothing has changed. However, if we then interact with the model at all, by clicking a slicer, or opening a pivot table category, we will see that the model has been automatically created for us.
Caveats:
These models are temporary. If they haven’t been used for a period of
time, they get deleted. Also, if the source workbook is updated, a new
model is automatically create upon first interaction. This can be seen
if we edit, and save our Health.xlsx workbook, and then open it in the
browser and interact with it.
The original model will be deleted in a garbage collection process. We
therefore cannot reliably target these models, as any reference will
become invalid relatively quickly.
The better and actually scalable option is to create a tabular model(we are talking SSAS here) and import this PowerPivot model into it.
I am new to SAP Business Objects Infoview and was asked if I can automate the report data generation for an existing report.
Here is what I would do manually through the Infoview web interface:
Click schedule for the report in question, which brings up the Schedule dialog
Change the recurrence to Now
Change the report prompts (start date and end date) so that start date=today and end date=today-14 days
Set the format to CSV and output the report to the Inbox
Schedule the report
Wait for the report to succeed
Download the generated report data
I can see how I could build a tool using Java and Selenium to automate this. However I am wondering if there is a more elegant way to doing this that still allows me to set the prompts dynamically. Are there existing 3rd party tools? Can I use JDBC?
What I have at my disposal is a user name/password to log on to Infoview. If a more elegant solution requires additional access or software please let me know.
It's possible with a simple addition to the universe (but this, of course, requires universe developer access). For your example, you could create a new universe-based Predefined Condition object with a definition of: (assuming Oracle)
start_date = trunc(sysdate) and end_date = trunc(sysdate-14)
Adding this object to a report will produce the desired timeframe whenever it's run, whether it's scheduled or interactive.
If you want the same report to run with this logic when scheduled, but still allow users to select dates via the prompts. You can use magic dates. See this blog post for info.
Lastly, you could write a custom program that would open the report, populate the prompts with the appropriate values, and run it. But I would consider that a less-preferable option than the ones above.
You can use UiPath in order to easily automate SAP GUI without writing code.
Here's a tutorial on how to automate data entry, menu navigation and screen scraping on SAP.
You can use it from code (SDK) or you can create workflows (visual automation) directly from UiPath Studio.
Note: I work at UiPath. You should also try other visual automation tools like Automation Anywhere, WinAutomation, Jacada, use them side by side and choose the one that suits better your needs.
Here's how automating SAP Business One menus, buttons and typing looks like:
I have an MS Project Server 2010 running with a number of enterprise resources set up. I need to create a project via VBA, populate it with tasks and assign enterprise resources to tasks.
I am capable of creating tasks and assigning project resources to them, but I cannot assign enterprise resources. Once I create a new project, its resource list is empty. I can add enterprise resources to the project manually with TeamBuilder, and then they can be assigned, but I don't see a way to add enterprise resources to project via VBA. I tried to record a macro while adding resources, but it doesn't reflect the process and allows me only to open TeamBuilder.
How can I add enterprise resources to my project?
Well, I did find an answer. It's EnterpriseResourceGet method of Project app. Probably it will save someone some nerve and let curse Microsoft a bit less. Getting resource UID via VBA is a different and fascinating story.
I have a lightswitch project in visual studio 2013, using vb.net. I would like the user to be able to click a button and have lightswitch find an excel file, and upload that file to a sql table according to a pre-determined column mapping.
My preference was to use the Office Integration extension for visual studio, which I got working with VS 2013 by downloading it from this link: http://www.ge.tt/71iuRQv/v/0
However, the documentation and examples for office integration seem to be very heavy on getting an excel spreadsheet into a display in the lightswitch web client, rather than into the sql data table, which is where I need it. Here are the examples I've been following:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bethmassi/archive/2012/07/18/new-and-improved-office-integration-pack-extension-for-lightswitch.aspx
Alternatively, I have an existing stored procedure, and I can request that the server call this stored proc by sending a web API extension from the client to the server. I have this working already for other stored procs, according to examples from Beth Masi and Paul van Bladel. (Stackoverflow won't let me post the links...)
The undesirable part of this approach is that the stored proc is old, and messy.
I've searched and searched, but have yet to find anyone approach this problem for VS 2013 with lightswitch. Any useful advice?
I've used the method detailed by Matt Sampson to store word files and it works very well. Since it just stores the raw binary it should handle Excel files just as well.
If you're creating the table in LightSwitch, use the Binary Type. If you use SQL create scripts use varbinary(MAX).
You need to create a custom Silverlight dialog box to gain access to the OpenFileDialog object. Then open the file in as a FileStream.
Finally, you need to add a handler for the closed method of the control and then show the control to the user. Most likely done in a button. This needs to be done on the main dispatcher.
The code examples are in C# but I just used one of the many available translators out on the web and copy/pasted the VB.NET code.
Another option might be to consider shelling out to the DTSEXEC run-time to execute an SSIS package to perform the upload - especially if the target Excel spreadsheets have predefined layouts and content data types.
Even simpler, you might be able to use the SQL Server BULK INSERT command to get the job done - although that would require a SQL Client connection to your database.
HTH
Is there a way that we can automate the input in ms project 2010. Below are the scenarios:
We have a vb.net application that uses to inputs task name, hours, estimate and completion date time.
Is there a way that we can upload those date in ms project 2010.
There is a way. If you use desktop version of MS Project (Pro or Standard) then the only option you have is to use OLE automation.
Through the OLE Automation you will get a reference to an instance of Application class which is key class in every MS Office application. From the Application you can get a list of currently open projects using Application.Projects collection or even get current project using Application.ActiveProject.
As soon as you have a reference to a project you can access all tasks in the project using Project.Tasks collection. (Index of all collections starts with 1)
The most of Task fields like Name or Start date are available through properties of a Task: Task.Name = "something" or Task.StartDate = "1/1/2001"
Anyway here is a link: msdn.microsoft.com
Another story is if you have Project Server and you want to do all the things faster. In this case you should use PSI (Project Server Interface) - collection of web services which give you access to the most of Project Server functions.
MSDN has great articles with samples how to work with projects using PSI and here is a link: MSDN about PSI. You can search around the link to find more articles about other services available through PSI.
If you're able to put your data into Excel as mentioned in your comment, then it would be fairly straightforward to write a VBA program that reads the excel data and updates the Project tasks with the data in the workbook.