I have data in a csv file & want to do the following with it:
Log into web site
Populate field of the page with the csv data
Navigate to next page
Input the rest of data
Click submit
Repeat for next line
I can do this using UiPath but it's an expensive option for a relatively simple use case.
Any one any suggestions on how do this using a different method?
Thanks,
EddieT
If you're looking for alternatives then you probably would want to investigate APIs or Webhooks. But that all depends on the access rights you have for that particular website.
Try messaging the Developers of the website you need as they might have this service already available.
UiPath may appear expensive but if you calculate the amount of time saved for this one process then you will see the money savings too.
If you can find a couple of other processes you want to automate then I'd highly recommend it.
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I need to extract some data from my client's SAP ECC (the SUIM -> Users by Complex Selection Criteria -program RSUSR002)
Normally I give them a table of values that I they have to fill some field to extract what I need.
They have to make 63 different extractions (with different values of objects, for example - but inside the same transaction - you can see in the print) from their SAP, to later send to me all extracted files.
Do you know if there is an automated way to extract that, so they don't have to make 63 extractions?
My biggest problem is that every time they make mistakes. It's a lot of things to fill..
Can I create a variant and send it to them? Is it possible to export my variant so they can import it without the need to fill 63x different data?
Thank you.
When this is a task which takes considerable effort by multiple people each year, then it is something which might be worth automatizing.
First you need to find out where that transaction gets its data from. If you spend some time analyzing and debugging the program behind the transaction, you will surely find which SELECT's on which database table(s) provide that data. If you are lucky, there might even be a function module for it.
Then you just need to write an own ABAP program which performs the same selections.
Now about the interesting part: How to get that data to you. There are several approaches here. The best one depends on your requirements and your technical infrastructure. Some possibilities are:
Let users run the program in foreground, use the method cl_gui_frontend_services=>gui_download to save the data to a file on the user's PC and ask them to send it to you via email
Run the program in background and save the file on the application server. Then ask your sysadmins how to get that file from their application server to you. The simplest way would be to just map a network fileserver so they all write to the same place, but there might be some organizational hurdles in the way which prevent that. (Our security people would call me crazy if I proposed to allow access to SMB shares from outside of our network, but your mileage may vary)
Have the program send the data to you directly via email. You can send emails from an SAP system using the function module SO_NEW_DOCUMENT_ATT_SEND_API1. This of course requires that the system was configured to be able to send emails (which you can do with transaction code SCOT). Again, security considerations apply. When it's PII or other confidential data, then you should not send it in an unencrypted email.
Use an RFC call to send the data to your own SAP system which aggregates the data
Use a webservice call to send the data to your own non-SAP system which aggregates the data
You can create a recording in transaction SM35.
There you fill a tcode (SUIM), start recording, make some input in transaction SUIM and then press 'Execute'. Then you can go back to recording (F3 multiple times) and the system will generate some table with commands (structure is BDCDATA). You can delete unnecessary part (i.e. BACK button click) and save it to use as a 'macro'. Then you can replay this recording and it will do exactly what you did.
Also it's possible to export/import the recording to text file, so you can explore it's structure, write some VBA script to create such recording from your parameters and sent it to users. But keep in mind that blanks are meaningful.
It's a standard tools so there's no any coding in the system.
You can save the selection as a variant.
Fill in the selection criteria and press Save.
It can be reused.
You can also transport Variants if the they have a special name
I'm trying to automate some process that requires downloading a custom report created from Shopify Admin daily. I tried resort to Shopify API to manually pull orders via the Order API, however, the process requires going through pagination which took several minutes to go through a few thousands of orders while it will only a few seconds to manually export the csv file from the Shopify Admin page.
So I'm just wondering if it's possible to implement a service that export those custom reports that were created in Shopify Admin into a csv file without human interaction?
Cheers!
Sure. Just write some Javascript to run in the admin that will do the custom report for you, without pushing all the buttons you'd push manually. You can fake being human that way and automate things. Once you have that straightened away, you could setup a service that would run that scripting automatically when you wanted, say on a schedule.
Of course, the old pokey way you pointed out is probably way easier, but as you say, it takes minutes and hey, who has minutes to spare!
I am not sure if it can solve your problem. I use a cloud data platform (not Shopify Apps) called Acho to retrieve data from Shopify and then export the report to Google Sheets automatically. Sometimes, I also create my own reports on the platform before exporting them to Google Sheets. I think it can somehow reduce lots of manual works. You can try its free trial if you are interested.
I have to deposit a report in .txt format once a day and upload it to an SFTP. I have generated the report in BigQuery but can't find a way to export it as .txt. Is it possible?
There are quite a number of ways to accomplish this and almost all involve some extend of coding with clients of your choice or great GCP tools like Dataflow, etc. They all require skilled engineers at hand
For sure, there will be few answers covering those options
Meantime, I want to provide different option.
There are some third party tools that helps to achieve same w/o no extra coding (rather than BigQuery querying)
Below is example of how simple it is to do with Magnus which is part of Potens.io suite of powerful and efficient tools for BigQuery designed so that even the non-engineer can easily explore and automate workflows to become self-sufficient in their data needs like in your question.
Disclosure: Google Developer Expert in Cloud here - author of BigQuery Mate and Potens.io (Magnus and Goliath) productivity tools
So, in below screenshot you see workflow with just two Tasks.
First Task defines payload of your report and Second Task uploads it to client's SFTP
Below you can see flip side of second task with more settings - zero coding!
In this particular example - you do not even need to persist your report in BQ Table - Second Task will just pick it from the first Task (even though obviously in real life you most likely to preserve report - which is still easy to set in first Task using Destination Entry)
I recommend you to try
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.
A Google search for "site:example.com" will tell you the number of pages of example.com that are currently in Google's index. Is it possible to find out how this number has changed over time?
HubSpot does this for you. It costs money but they do a lot of useful things like this.
If you don't mind waiting, you could have a cron parse your site:example.com results every day and wait for the data to build up.
I was going to suggest Google Webmaster Tools, but it doesn't appear to have this information. How irritating.
Anyway, to follow on from UltimateBrent's answer, this regular expression will extract the value from a google search:
\d+(?=</b> from <b>domain\.net</b>)
Obviously, changing domain\.net to whatever your domain is.
I set up a Python script as a cron job to parse the result from the Google results page and save it. I set it to run once per day for each of a set of sites. I wrote another script to produce a CSV spreadsheet from the data. I can open that in a spreadsheet program and quickly make charts to visualise trends.
I have similar scripts for monitoring PageRank.
This will still only give me data from the day I begin checking. I do not know of a way to access historical values.
you can use domaintools.com
Rahul
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