do you guys know what is the best method to import data from any website to put in webi report. i just want to capture the value that displayed in the web, like web scraping/crawl. As example, getting the oil price from https://www.oil-price.net/
Using Excel/powerBI is very easy to do this as it have power query features but I didnt found how to do this in WEBI
FYI, the website is just an example. just want to show that i want to take the value that similar like that oil price website
OR is it that we need to use another program to capture the data and store in SQL database and create new universe? Really appreciate if can share link or references of how to do that.
Thanks!
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We are trying to use PowerBi to build tabular reports from data in Azure DevOps. In this report, we want to display the description field in one of the table's columns. ADO stores the description as HTML. Neither PowerBI or Excel can render this content, but instead show the markup code. I've also looked at pulling this into python and using Dash with no luck.
There is an extension for ADO that renders html, but it displays a single record and doesn't work as a table cell renderer.
The output I'm looking for is very simple. It is a table (preferably in PowerBI or some other dashboarding tool) that has columns for work item title and description. The description column shows the rendered HTML code as it is displayed in ADO.
How to create a tabular report from Azure DevOps that includes work
item description?
For this issue, I am afraid this demand is impossible to achieve. It is clearly stated in the document that Description field cannot be used to generate a report.Excel also does not support generating reports on this field.
For details,please refer to this docs. Hope this helps.
I have a stored procedure I need to automate that looks at each company id in my dataset and outputs one csv for each id.
Right now I am trying to figure out how to create a basic list report in SSRS, then create a data driven subscription that cycles through all company ids - then outputs CSVs to a shared folder.
I am completely new to SSRS and have been Googling, but so far no results. I was wondering if anyone knew of any good pointers or resources to get this done?
What version of SSRS are you using. You also need to create list report first and then you can do data driven subscription.
Here are few articles that might help you.
http://knowlton-group.com/creating-data-driven-ssrs-subscriptions/
http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/data-driven-subscription-in-ssrs-2008-r2.html
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&ved=0ahUKEwjZ3fHGrP3NAhVJNj4KHYhBD-UQFghHMAY&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commongroundsolutions.net%2FSSRS_DataDrivenSubscriptions_Methodology.pptx&usg=AFQjCNHgrYfJn_u_YlQDgZo4rAPOwzombQ&sig2=5flvqG-sItnoQaLsRwmh9w&bvm=bv.127178174,d.cWw&cad=rja
https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/10969/Data-Driven-Subscription-using-SSRS-2012.html
I am trying to develop a BlackBerry application that will show data from an SQL Database from a server. I was researching the new HTML 5 option for blackberry (WebWorks) and noticed that it apparently cannot connect to any server data by itself. Some links state that I would need javascript coding to obtain it. I looked into the option of PhoneGap (link here: http://phonegap.com/) and decided I'd try using HTML 5 to produce the application. I have never touched SQL databases before and I am wondering how I would connect the two; meaning how do you pull data from the server given that you are working with HTML5?
I have looked at:
Where is data stored when using an HTML 5 Web SQL Database
Process for pulling data from a sql database
among others but I am still unsure as to what to do. I would be looking to "view" the data from the server and display it on the app. It would be something of the sort:
- HomeScreen: What data would you like to view?:
- Dropdown list of categories (from the database)
- Selecting Entry in dropdown leads to available information (from the database)
Any help would be appreciated, and of course thanks in advance.
the new (and pretty awesome) features of HTML5 is happening in the browser on the client side. What you will need is a back-end on the server side doing some magic. It is true that browsers now have databases but these are located on the phone, computer etc and as I understand your question you want these data to communicate with data on your server. To move data across the web you will need to perform HTTP-requests which can easily be done through javascript and ajax. Look a bit into these technologies and make a little server-side script that gathers data from the database and send it in a structured format to the phone (JSON, XML), then make a script in javascript on the client-side that parse these data and utilise them.
Good luck!
When in the 'Modify' mode of a Web-intelligence report inside Business Objects, when using the Formula Editor with an object is it possible to identify the CUID from this in a Web Intellience Report?
I wish to display the CUID on each report, and was hoping there is some variable I can just refer to and it displays accordingly to whatever report I have open.
I don't believe there is a way for this to occur.
The reason is you are looking at 2 different items of data from the way Business Objects is internally structured. The CUID is part of the metadata stored in the repository database, while the data in the Web Intelligence Report (WebI docs) is store in the actual file that resides on the IFRS. When working with WebI docs via the SDK, they are 2 very different objects that are manipulated that relate to these different parts.
It might be possible to work around this using the SDK, but I have not tried it.
Recently found a guide to create universe on top of the BusinessObjects CMS database. Web Intelligence XI 3.x - Reporting off the BusinessObjects Enterprise CMS Via Data Access DDK Once you have the universe for the CMS database, you will then need to bring in all document names and the CUID. Then in the WebI report, you then filter the list of CUIDs using the DocumentName() function.
I wrote a note on CUID... May it help many
http://arkaandbi.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-note-on-cuid.html
I support Rational clearquest for my company and have been asked to show some of the data in Sharepoint.
I can query the data in Clearquest no problem (Using Toad) but have no idea about how to go displaying it in Sharepoint.
The data I'm querying contains dates and ideally I'd like to be able display it in a sharepoint calendar but list format would do for the moment.
Can anybody offer advice on even where to start?
Thanks,
Joe
Whilst you could do the bare bones approach suggested by Ben there are lots of options that will give you a 'leg up' especially if you are just displaying data.
Your first look should be at SharePoints Data View Web Part (DVWP). There is a length walkthrough here and some great tutorials by Laura Rogers
Very similar but if you hate SharePoint designer there is Lighting Tools Data Viewer Web Part
If you are using MOSS you could use the Business Data Catalog (BDC) - Display business data on a SharePoint site
There are other 3rd party options too that don't require MOSS such as Layer2's Business Data List Connector (BDLC)
If you have technical resource you could (expanding on approach suggested by Ben) write your own Reusable SQL Data Viewer Web Part
You would have to develop a sharepoint "feature" such as a webpart. You could then display retrieve the data from the db and display it however you want. You would basically be developing a asp.net component/application but with certain restrictions that sharepoint forces on you. You can read the basic steps here