I am trying to create an Age Analysis for Creditors using a dynamic date slicer.
I followed each individual step specified on David Churchward's Blog, but I'm not able to replicate what he suggested there.
Herewith is the result of what I tried:
I'm expecting to see these values each in their own Ageing bucket based on what is outstanding.
Please download my PBIX file to see for yourself, then please advise what I did wrong.
The Excel source for PBIX is also in the folder.
Thank you.
The blog that you're referring is quite old and DAX has changed a lot since then.
Additionally PowerBI now has a in-built feature called binning which can do something similar to what you're looking for.
I was able to generate the below output using that feature which automatically groups the data based on the bin size.
There also a related feature called "Grouping" where you can manually choose the groups and their range. If you're up for it you can use this too. Below is the output for that:
I uploaded the file with these changes in the same folder.
Another resource that might be helpful for you is Radacad's article on dynamic banding
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I need to design a pipeline using Nifi, but I have some questions as I am thinking between two approaches and I am unsure which processors to use, so maybe you can help me.
The scenario is the following: I need to ingest some .csv files into my HDFS, those do not contain a date I want to use to partition the Hive tables I will later use, so I thought of two options:
At some point during the .csv treatment, create some kind of code snippet that is launched from Nifi to modify the .csv file adding the column with the date.
Create a temporary (internal?) table on hive, alter the table adding the column and finally add it to the table where I partition by date.
I am unsure which option is better (memory-wise, simplicity, resource management) or maybe if its even possible, or even if there is a better way to do it. Also I am unsure of which are the Nifi processors to use.
So any help is appreciated guys, thanks.
You should be able to do #1 easily in NiFi without writing any code :)
The steps would be something like this:
Source processor to get your CSV from somewhere, probably GetFile
UpdateAttribute to add an attribute for the current date
UpdateRecord with a CsvReader and CsvWriter, adds a new date field
with the value from #2
I've created an example of how to do this and posted the template here:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bbende/113f8fa44250c09a5282d04ee600cd09/raw/c6fe8b1b9f31bb106f9c816e4fd5ea90ebe19f80/CsvAddDate.xml
Save that xml file and use the palette on the left of NiFi canvas to upload it as a template. Then instantiate the template from the top toolbar by dragging on the template icon.
I'm pretty new on Jedox, and I'm trying for internal use to export some specific "warning logs" (eg. "(Mapping missing)" ) into an excel/wss file.
And I don't how to do that...
Can you help me please.
Regards,
Usik
The easiest way to get these information is to use the Integrator in Jedox.
There you have the possibility to use a File Extract and then you can filter the information you are searching for.
After that it's possible to load these filtered information into a File.
The minimum steps you'll need are Connection -> Extract -> Transform -> Load.
Please take a look at the sample projects that are delivered with the Jedox software. In the example "sampleBiker", there are also file connections, extracts etc.
You can find more samples in:
<Install_path>\tomcat\webapps\etlserver\data\samples
I recommend to check the Jedox Knowledgebase.
The other way (and maybe more flexible way) would be to use, for example, a PHP macro inside of a Jedox Web report and read the log file you're trying to display.
If you've got a more specific idea what you'd like to do, please let me know and I'll try to give you an example how to do so.
I'm using Dynamic Reports to build huge PDF files (like 80.000 pages) and for now, the solution I found was to create intermediary files and merge them after processing. The last challenge for getting it done is to add page numbers, but the default counting obviously get messed up after merging. So I need some way to set the starting page number when creating the temp PDF files. The three methods available don't allow page setting. Is it possible? How do I do it?
Thanks in advance.
Yes, it is possible. Although it's hard to find in the documentation, the report() has exactly what is needed: the method
report.setStartPageNumber(int)
As stated by Ricardo in the DynamicReports forum.
Currently I am in the process of building an updated Microsoft Access database for our affiliated hospital to keep a timeline of documentation for potential medical studies. The database itself is standalone, so there is no real back end to speak of (which hurts me, but I have no control over how they handle their data). It currently holds only one table with all the necessary fields needed. I'm looking to have reports generate automatically every week, month, quarter, and year. However, I must admit my vba coding abilities are spotty at best. My questions are this:
What code would I need to use to generate said reports?
Would I need to create separate queries just for each type of report based on when it needs to be generated, or can I code it all in one query without the different codes interfering with each other?
If any other information or clarification is needed, I'd be happy to give you what I can.
When calling a Report from VBA or from a macro, two things could be usefull to you:
providing a condition, like
docmd.OpenReport "someReport",acViewPreview,,"[examDate] > Date() - 30"
providing an OpenArg, which can be used by vba in your report to change the periodicity for example ("M" for Monthly and "w" for Weekly"), like
docmd.OpenReport "someReport",acViewPreview,,"[examDate] > Date() - 30",,"W"
Those tricks should allow you to design a report ONCE, then use it with dynamic time range and grouping.
If you don't want to use VBA, for creating automatic reports printing/export you'll need:
Create reports which don't require user entry, use date functions for querying required date intervals.
Create macroses for starting reports and closing the database, no VBA knowledge required
Create tasks in Windows Task Scheduler for starting MS Access at requred days/time. Command line should contain parameters for opening specified database and starting specified macro (/x macro_name). Parameters description you can find, for instance, here
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The comments say it all.
Access is designed to make report writing of the nature you describe very easy, and a lot can be achieved without using VBA at all or macros for that matter.
If you want to use the same report to display the same sets of data for different date ranges (or perhaps with other changes in criteria), you should prompt the user to enter a date range or the other criteria that will cause the data displayed to be changed. (ie the parameters they entered are used in the query to change the data returned).
This is infinitely preferable to having many many reports and queries that are all the same except they get data for a different set of criteria.
There are many Access Programming books that will help you re-learn these skills. I have found this channel useful https://www.youtube.com/user/ProgrammingMadeEZ/search?query=reports for other Access videos, but it's not as useful for reports.
Harvey
Every week I access server logs processed by WebTrends (for about 7 profiles) and copy ad clickthrough and visitor information into Excel spreadsheets. A lot of it is just accessing certain sections and finding the right title and then copying the unique visitor information.
I tried using WebTrends' built-in query tool but that is really poorly done (only uses a drag-and-drop system instead of text-based) and it has a maximum number of parameters and maximum length of queries to query with. As far as I know, the tools in WebTrends are not suitable to my purpose of automating the entire web metrics gathering process.
I've gotten access to the raw server logs, but it seems redundant to parse that given that they are already being processed by WebTrends.
To me it seems very scriptable, but how would I go about doing that? Is screen-scraping an option?
I use ODBC for querying metrics and numbers out of webtrends. We even fill a scorecard with all key performance metrics..
Its in German, but maybe the idea helps you: http://www.web-scorecard.net/
Michael
Which version of WebTrends are you using? Unless this is a very old install, there should be options to schedule these reports to be emailed to you, and also to bookmark queries. Let me know which version it is and I can make some recommendations.