I am somewhat new to VBA and have done hours of research to see if it is possible to get the created or last modified date of a PDF document that is hosted online.
From a thread I found the FileDateTime function could possibly work however there is no information as to how to use it.
I have found and modified code from the msdn website however it returns the following error "Invalid procedure call or argument".
The below link was also helpful. stating that using the link without the "https:" works, however it seems that it only applies to Sharepoint files and has returned an error ("File no found")
How will I get the last modified date of a file in a SharePoint using VBA?
Sub return_created_date()
Dim MyStamp
' Assume TESTFILE was last modified on February 12, 1993 at 4:35:47 PM.
' Assume English/U.S. locale settings.
MyStamp = FileDateTime("https://www.xxxx.com/xxxx.pdf") ' Returns "2/12/93 4:35:47 PM"
MsgBox (MyStamp)
End Sub
Any help on if this is possible would be appreciated
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I'm trying to loop through all of the word documents that I currently have open, check the filename and pass the document to a function if the document name matches certain criteria. This is the code I currently have:
Dim doc As word.Document
For Each doc In word.Documents
If doc.Name Like "*scratchpad*" Then
Call ModifyScratchpad(doc)
End If
Next
This seems to work well some of the time but if I close the docs and reopen them, then run the sub again, I'll get an error at line 2:
"The remote server machine does not exist or is unavailable."
I'm clearly doing something wrong to loop through open Word docs but not sure what.
Does anyone have an idea of how to loop through all open Word docs and avoid this error?
I have been given the task of converting the slower Macro Express Pro coding for IBM Personal Communications over to a VBScript/VBA version. The Macro Express Pro coding opens a predetermined profile from a specific location.
This process can take up to 30 seconds. VBScript does this in about a third of the time for a default profile (TN3270.WS). However, when we try opening the specific link highlighted in the UNET.txt file, we get this as an error:
Run-time error '440': Automation error
Here is the VBScript code we are trying to use:
Sub Main()
Dim EName
Dim autECLConnList, objConnMgr
Set objConnMgr = CreateObject("Pcomm.autECLConnMgr")
objConnMgr.autECLConnList.Refresh
objConnMgr.StartConnection ("profile='C:\ProgramData\IBM\Personal Communications\UNET REWORK.ws' connname=a")
Application.Wait (Now + TimeValue("00:00:12"))
objConnMgr.autECLConnList.Refresh
EName = objConnMgr.autECLConnList(1).Name
End Sub
The error occurs on the objConnMgr.StartConnection ("profile='C:\ProgramData\IBM\Personal Communications\UNET REWORK.ws' connname=a") line. We know we have the correct path to the profile because it's we found its location:
IBM says that if the profile name contains blanks, it "must to be surrounded by single quotes":
Can anyone provide some advice on what we're doing wrong or what we're missing?
Thanks.
I found a way of doing what I need to do. I was looking too specific into starting a PCOMM session that I didn't even think of just running the .exe file and send it parameters. Here's how I did it:
Sub Main()
Dim WShell
Set WShell = CreateObject("WSCript.shell")
WShell.Run """C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Personal Communications\pcsws.exe"" ""C:\ProgramData\IBM\Personal Communications\UNET REWORK.WS"""
End Sub
I'm sure this is a duplicate answer to another question out there, but most of the answers are more than a few years old and outdated. This solution is current and recently tested, so it is a more reliable source.
I have a Word .dot file which works in older versions of Word but fails with error 432 when run in Word 2013.
When I debug the code I have the line:
Load customerForm
And VBA shows the error:
Run-time error '432': File name or class name not found during Automation operation
The project "pennyscode" includes "Module1" which contains the function being debugged, "ThisDocument" and a form called "customerForm".
I have tried changing the name to "pennyscode.customerForm" but this doesn't make any difference.
This code is being called from a Sub function which is called from Document_New().
Updates
I can place a breakpoint on the Load customerForm line and demonstrate that it is the line that is causing the problem. If at this point I mouse over the word "customerForm" VBA comes up with
customerForm = <Object variable or With block variable not set>
If I delete/skip the Load line then the next line is customerForm.Show and that produces the same error.
If I just open the .dotm file and then use Alt-F11 to open VBA, I can look at the code for selectCustomer, list properties/methods and customerForm appears in the list.
Additional Note
I believe that within the Load function it must be calling GetObject and it is this that is failing. It is as if VBA can't find the customerForm object even though it appears in the project.
I've posted the full code of the function being called from Document_New below.
Sub selectCustomer()
Dim Doc As Document
Set Doc = Application.ActiveDocument
If Doc.CustomDocumentProperties.Item("Customer") = "Nothing" Then
Load customerForm
customerForm.Show
Unload customerForm
Doc.Fields.Update
a$ = Doc.CustomDocumentProperties.Item("InvoiceNumber")
a$ = customerForm.pathBox.Value + "\" + a$
Doc.SaveAs (a$)
End If
End Sub
I've also posted the full .dotm (Excel 2013) and .dot (previous excel) and some sample data (.xls) here:
Dropbox/Public/Invoice 2015-16.dotm
Dropbox/Public/Invoice 2015-16.dot
Dropbox/Public/data.xls
Update
I've not had much luck making progress on this question. Can anyone suggest an approach to investigating this? Or how I might improve the information on the question?
I finally managed to fix this, and I have a few learnings.
Firstly the debugger shows the error as occurring on the Load customerForm line, but this is actually not the case.
The customerForm has an _Initialize function which loads data into it before it is displayed. This function was failing with but the debugger stops on the wrong place.
I was able to debug this more effectively by putting a breakpoint on the start of the _Initialize sub and then stepping through the code.
Once I had discovered this I realized that the code was failing to find the XLSX file due to a wrong path, thus causing the run-time error.
Once I'd fixed up all the paths, I then hit a second error: runtime error '9' which is a subscript problem. This also reported on the Load customerForm line and was also due to a problem with the _Initialize function.
This was the true source of the problem, and demonstrated a functional change between Office 2013 and previous versions of Office.
My code was opening an XLSX file and attempting to read data from it:
Dim myXL As Object
Dim myWS As Object
Set myXL = GetObject("C:\Test\data.xlsx")
myXL.Application.Visible = True
myXL.Parent.Windows(1).Visible = True
Set myWS = myXL.Application.Worksheets("Customers")
The run-time error 9 was due to the index of the Windows property, as their were no windows. In previous versions of Office, there was a single window, with 2013 the array is empty.
After much messing about I tried adding this line:
myXL.Activate
before accessing the Windows() array. Once that was executed Windows(1) existed and the code worked as before.
Hope this can help someone else struggling with similar problems.
So I have tons of data in my workbook that I need to pass on to my users in a way that allows them to interact with the workbook..., but also limits what they can actually do. So I have made it so they can access certain pages to Add needed data, then I've given access to a menu page so they can run a report.
This report I have found is best if it's an html page.
To that end, I have tried several different ways, save as...and publish. I like the publish version, but I can not for the life of me get this working. All the samples I see, appear to be the same. Here is the line of code in question:
ActiveWorkbook.PublishObjects.Add(xlSourceSheet, ActiveWorkbook.Path & ".htm, "Sheet1", "", xlHtmlStatic, "", "Report Title").Publish True
Every time I get a run time error '1004':
Method 'Publish' of object 'PublishObject' failed
I have the above line of code in a sub, am I missing something? Do I need to set up the publish differently? Thanks for any ideas.
I have had a similar mysterious problem that sometimes it (.Publish) works and sometimes it doesn't, when I try publish.
However, I think the problem might be, in cases when it doesn't work right off the bat, to first save the relevant region as a webpage so that it exists already on the server. After that region has been saved at least once (manually or else maybe with .SaveAs .. see below), then the publish might work.
Here is an example of how I get this to work more consistently, something to convey the structure that works for me:
wkb=ActiveWorkbook.Name 'save wb for later access
url="http://a.com/b.htm" 'save to Internet
sheetname="c"
Sheets(sheetname).Range("d1:e2").Select 'activating sheet may be necessary
On Error Resume Next 'anticipate error to handle it
'Now comes the publish line the first time... which may work.. or not
ActiveWorkbook.PublishObjects.Add(xlSourceRange,url,sheetname,"d1:e2",xlHtmlStatic,"blah","moreblah").Publish (True) 'may fail to create page on website if page didn't already exist
theerr=Err.Number
On Error GoTo 0 'back to default error handling (none)
If theerr <> 0 Then 'if here perhaps because page nonexistent
'msgbox "maybe add warning here [FYI]"
Sheets("dummysheetwithlittleornodata").Copy 'will create workbook
On Error Resume Next
ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs url 'may fail to create webpage first time
ActiveWorkbook.saveAs url 'twice needed for some reason sometimes. [works for me]
On Error GoTo 0
'with fresh dummy html page created, now publish should hopefully work.. let's try again
ActiveWorkbook.Close savechanges:=False 'clean up and avoid popup
Workbooks(wkb).Activate 'get back to correct wkb
Sheets(sheetname).Range("d1:e2").Select
ActiveWorkbook.PublishObjects.Add(xlSourceRange,url,sheetname,"d1:e2",xlHtmlStatic,"blah","moreblah").Publish (True) 'hopefully if failed first time, now it succeeded ! good luck.
End If
The above code structure has allowed me to solve several publish problems I was having. All the techniques together have been enough so far to allow me to save a range from a sheet as a webpage (to server I have write access to) without having to do anything manually (like a manual save or even click on popup). Good Luck.
[The different non-obvious techniques include activating a range before trying a range publish, using the error handling approach and anticipating failure at certain points, the 2x saveas to compensate for mysterious inconsistent failures when using one saveas only, closing and getting back to original workbook cleanly, and using saveas to "guarantee" page exists in form that will make publish to succeed more consistently.]
I'm fairly new to VBA code and have an issue I can't solve. Currently I have taken a VBA script from the internet as seen below:
Public Sub Whatever(Mail As Outlook.MailItem)
Mail.Subject = Mail.Subject & " " & Mail.CreationTime
Mail.Save
End Sub
I then applied this to my inbox using a rule so that it would take the subject and insert the time and date the email was created behind it. The rule looked like so :
Apply to message
on this computer only
run "Project1.Whatever"
This worked great last week but when I tried to use it today it has stopped. Any suggestions as to why this is or whether there is a better way to achieve the same result.
This worked great last week but when I tried to use it today it has stopped.
Why do you need to create a rule if you run it manually each time?
Instead, you can develop a VBA macro which can handle the Startup or MAPILogonComplete events of the Application class and process all items programmatically. See Getting Started with VBA in Outlook 2010 for more information.