I extract reports from iManage on daily basis and I was searching macro codes that would automate this process. After much search in various forums, I found this Ed Mozley's link, which I found very helpful to understand about the retrieval process from iManage.
Saving to iManage with VBA
To retrieve reports from the iManage, Ed mentions using of GetDocument function which has 2 parameters (document number, version number). In my case, however, the document number changes everyday with the updates after day-end process and are always unique.
I would like to know if there is a way to generate the list of documents created on a particular date and that list contains Document Name, Document Number, Version ID, Document Creation Time, Database etc. information. If I could generate the list of documents, I could compare my list of relevant documents with this list and then pull the document numbers and save them in array and create the relevant copies using codes suggested by Ed Mozley.
Or can we create copy of document based on the document name that partially matches with the name of the document available in iManage?
Any advice will of great help.
Thank you
Roshan
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I'm working on auto generated word documents that consist of multiple test reports.
I want to automatically create a table of contents where one entry refers to one report.
But I can't simply use headings because each entry should contain info that is not on one line in the report.
Something like this:
No.
Test Id
Description
Result
Page number
1
ANZ-131QZXY
UV Light test
Passed
3
2
ANZ-132QYXX
Heat resistence test
Failed
8
I know how I can retrieve the information from the individual reports in VBA but I got stuck on how to generate the table. Is it even possible to add entries manually to a ToC without a heading existing?
PS: I use Word 365 and it's important that the ToC will work when saving the document as PDF.
I've looked around and can't seem to find any help for what I am looking to do.
I have a document that I am using to record data related to repairs and such on machines.
All of my entries are done in a numeric order.
I have to scan hard copies in and hyperlink to them from the excel sheet.
All the files are named to me in a numerical order as well that matches the number in column A.
Is there a way to do this as a formula?
You can use the HYPERLINK formula. The 1st parameter allows you to dynamically build up the URL to point to, so if you say you have the correct numbers already in a column, you can use that to build the URL. Provided the URL for each scanned document can uniquely be derived using only that number, of course.
If the scanned documents are on the web, then you can use e.g.:
=HYPERLINK("https://www.myserver.com/scans/"&A4&".pdf","Scan nr. "&A4)
If they're on your own computer (or on a network drive), then you can use e.g.:
=HYPERLINK("file:///D:/scans/"&A4&".pdf","Scan nr. "&A4)
--- EDIT ---
As Cyril pointed out, you can also just use e.g.:
=HYPERLINK("D:\scans\"&A4&".pdf","Scan nr. "&A4)
which makes it a bit more readable. Also note that Excel really likes to warn you when using these types of links ;)
I have a program which outputs a collection of tables in a word document which I eventually want to post as an html file with bookmarks and an index. The tables are grouped by "Name:" where there is a 3 row table that contains detailed header information for a section of data, then there is a second table which can span multiple pages which contains the data for that section. There is then a page break so that the next sections header table is on a new page. This can occur for a variable number of sections numbers in the hundreds. I need to write a script that
searches my document for "Name:", which is unique and would not
appear anywhere but the header table,
grabs the text that follows "Name:" within that table cell (for example "Name: Line 1234)
replaces all the blanks in that text string with an underscore to
make it a suitable bookmark name,
creates a bookmark with the name,
goes back and creates an index at the front of the document
Saves the file as an html
I have a passing familiarity with VB for word, I have used it a bit in excel, but am by no means an expert. I would appreciate any advice on functions and objects that I should be using for this script.
Hey MikeV from what I can gather, your problem seems more conceptual, less specific. What I mean is, have you started yet? Or looking at a blank script page?
I'm relatively new to coding, so I get that myself. What I do is make a list of what I need to do (what you have). Then think of the code or psuedo-code that would go with each step. Then you can start to build your script. You don't have to start with step one (as step 2/3 is often the more interesting bit), but let's do that.
Now, you need to search for a text string containing "Name:". I am proficient with VBA in excel, but haven't done anything for word. So I'd look it up. Googling "VBA find word in word document" will bring you to this page, which shows you how to approach step one. So steal their code, alter it to fit your needs and move on to step 2. Repeat the process, and that's how you build your algorithm! :)
Just a FYI, typically StackOverflow is for specific questions with an answer that can be confirmed, whereas you asked for help building an algorithm. I'd reserve those questions for your programming professor or friend who can help.
cheers
I have a pretty complex VBA plugin for Word written that automatically creates a report for me, using XML input, cycling through the X objects within the report to create the output. It is currently embedded into a Word Template file .DOCM.
I need to insert into the report a static list of text, based on the name of the item within the XML. For example, within my XML I have entries with a name BLAH1, BLAH2, BLAH3. Every time I see BLAH1, I need to match it with the static INSERT1, and BLAH2 match it with INSERT2, etc.
This seems simple enough, but her lies the problem...
It appears there are no Hashmap's in VBA without requiring external libraries, which I can't really rely on, since I can't install items on the machines where this will be running. As a result I can't store this reference data in a Hashmap as far as I can tell.
I can't seem to concatenate more than about 20 lines of strings together without hitting a max within VBA, and just parsing the chunk of text for what I need since there are about 1500 "lines" in my reference data, which greatly exceeds 20.
I also haven't found a way to embed a text, or any other type of file to hold this information within the file, and then parse the data.
I really would like to have everything within the single template file, without requiring additional text or other files to be bundled with the document. If there is no other option, I will go that route, but I wanted to see what create ideas people at Stackoverflow might have first ;-)
Have you considered using Word's Document Variables? They are name/value pairs stored invisibly within the document. (ActiveDocument.Variables("BLAH1").Value = "INSERT1" to create one, debug.print ActiveDocument.Variables("BLAH1").Value to retrieve a value (you have to use an error handler to detect non-existent indices if you go that route). Word can store (at least) hundreds of thousands of these things).
I have a 300+ page word document containing hundreds of "chapters" (as defined by heading formats) and currently indexed by word. Each chapter contains a medium amount of text (typically less than a page) and perhaps an associated graphic or two. I would like to split the document up into database records for use in an iPhone program - each chapter would be a record consisting of a title, id #, and content fields. I haven't decided yet if I would want the pictures to be a separate field (probably just containing a file name), or HTML or similar style links in the content text. In any case, the end result would be that I could display a searchable table of titles that the user could click on to pull up any given entry.
The difficulty I am having at the moment is getting from the word document to the database. How can I most easily split the document up into records by chapter, while keeping the image associations? I thought of inserting some unique character between each chapter, saving to text format, and then writing a script to parse the document into a database based on that character, but I'm not sure that I can handle the graphics in this scenario. Other options?
To answer my own question:
Given a fairly simply formatted word document
convert it to an Open Office XML document
write a python script to parse the document into a database using the xml.sax python module.
Images are inserted into the record as HTML, to be displayed using a web interface.