We have quite a complex Visio diagram with custom styled shapes and relations between them. Unfortunately the data of the shapes changes very often. So we have to edit the diagram manually. Furthermore we're searching for a way to automate this step. We don't want to edit the styles, only the data. I read on MSDN that the model behind Visio is stored in XML and there's also a VBA reference, which looks good.
My concern is that our approach is to time consuming and we end up with the old approach of doing it manually. Has someone done something similar and can give me a tip?
The Apache (N)Poi Library provides features I was looking for.
http://poi.apache.org/diagram/
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Can I somehow import a table from pdf to a UiPath DataTable?
I can do it via loading it to a string array and after that splitting it. But I hope so there is a better and more safe solution to get a table from PDF.
The easiest way is to use the Read PDF Text activity.
As it's often changing, it does really make sense to give you a tutorial here about how you add it to UiPath and what parameters you currently have. Overall all info you can find on the official detailed tutorial.
Basically this activity gives you the easy way of extracting data and managing it.
If the result is not okay you will need to switch to the OCR activity with nearly the same name. This one reads the data visually. But from what you gave here, I would not recommend you that.
There are many other activities out there, like extracting it into an Excel Workbook. So simply try out what you need.
I'm not sure where to actually post this (I'm pretty sure someone will chastize me tell me where after of course voting me down - expected).
I've been developing a bunch of files for Safety Training at my facility. The UI is built in Excel with Excel VBA at it's heart to get names and the Training program to run. The Excel file opens A PowerPoint presentation after getting your name and the program you desire and logs that data. When you are done with the presentation it opens as a Word doc - the quiz for that presentation.
My issue is this: currently all of our tests are created in Word (I barely know Word VBA) and would like to continue by just adding some text boxes and check boxes for the answers. I'd like to add some code to facilitate the automatic scoring of these tests by placing a button at the end that "locks" the test (so they can't change answers) then checks and returns the test score.
I don't see where Word Files can be locked as in Excel's "Protect Sheet". The scoring I am using seems to be flawed but that is an issue I can work out later if I stay with Word. I am wondering if it wouldn't be better and maybe easier to do this in Excel as it is set up more for evaluating data input.
Looking for any advice on what others might do if they had a choice to use Word or Excel for creating tests. I currently have no preference (except for the above - which I am not locked into) in which format to use, possibly even using a separate PowerPoint Presentation as the test itself.
To try to answer the question: What you are doing seems like a lot of fun from a VBA perspective, and from a user interface perspective, but it seems to me your intuition is telling you to move the test to excel and I think that is the right thing to do. You have much more ability to lock down the test, could easily score multiple tests and create a multi-test curve, etc, etc.
I'm open to other solutions as well.
My issue is this. We have about 500+ and growing different PDFs that need to have certain information (company info, phone numbers, etc.) added to form fields dynamically. The reason this needs to be dynamic is that this information changes regularly and we do not want to have to update all 500 PDFs each time it changes. So I am looking for some way to set up the PDFs so that they all read from a single external source (could be something as simple as a text file) dynamically upon opening the PDF in Acrobat Pro.
I have done some on-the-fly PDF creation in the past through PHP, however this does not seem like the best solution here as the PDFs need to be edited a lot by non-programmers and such. I'd prefer not to go that route and just stick to finding a way to get a few lines of data into the PDFs they create.
I've researched this a bit and it seems... possible, but confusing? This is the best thing I could find so far:
http://www.pdfscripting.com/public/department48.cfm
But the three solutions that it offers near the bottom all sound convoluted. Just wondering if there is something simpler that I am missing. All I really need to do is have the PDF import a few small chunks of text. Seems like it should be easy...
I think you can give http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/679606/Filling-PDF-Form-using-iText-PDF-Library a try. Hopefully it fulfills your needs.
I have statistics for a project stored in a MySQL database and looking for a quick way to prototype a webpage which graphs various relationships in the data, using bar graph, line graph, pie chart, etc. I found something called "Dashing", but seems to use something called "coffeescript" which I'd rather not learn in my short time frame (~1 week).
Does anyone know of any good packages/frameworks that can help out with the job? If I could do it using only C/C++/obj-C it would be ideal, though Java is possible as well.
I decided on using PHP/Apache/MySQL and the Jpgraph PHP graphing framework.
I'm looking someone who can help me with this issue, that seems very easy to achieve but there is no much information around the internet.
I'm working with MS Access and Visual Basic, and I would like to create a simple bar graph, giving params that I've already gathered from many querys.
In this case: A chart about Litres per Week. I have a query to gather the amount of litres of 4 different weeks. I also provide the information for the X Axis (Last week, Last two weeks, and so on.. ). It would look like this:
So I'm wondering if this can be done, as well a pie charts and line charts.
I'm aware that this can be easilly done with Excel, but I don't want open another program to read information.
Thank you very much.
How to make Charts in MS Access would be my first key word search :)
Then I will check on MSDN for proper tools/properties availability/updates on software and so on.
Here is a simple basic tutorial to follow
This is the entire google search that would provide you anything you want to check on the topic.
Please note the version of MS Access you are using against the tutorials described. In certain versions there are certain changes have been done to the software itself. You are much lucky if it's not 2007...
EDIT Based on the comments with OP:
Since OP has exhaustive/heavy queries, it's recommended to create a temp table based on the final query.
Then temp table can act as a view and become the data source for the Chart
dynamic binding of chart from database in VS2010 in C#
Bind query as a datasource to MS Access chart. There is a method called databindtable which is a chart property. You may use it:
e.g. chart1.DataBindTable(yoursource,columname)
This article provies a good sample code.