I hoping to develop a simple database to store the results of OFAC searches in an Access database. The steps that I'm hoping to achieve follow:
Enter company name in Access form
Execute query (via clicking a button or otherwise)
Goto OFAC website (OFAC Website)
Enter Company name in Name Field
Execute a search by clicking Search button or hitting return.
Receive the result set and Store in Access table
Questions:
Can I accomplish these steps with Access
Are you aware of any resources (articles, Access add-ins, VBA Scripts) that can help me achieve these objectives
Thanks for your help
Yes, it's possible. OFAC provides access to data using web service API, which can be called using VBA. I didn't use VBA for accessing OFAC, but used with other web services. Search string "ofac list api" gives a lot of links, for instance here you can find code example for VB6, it's similar to VBA, may be useful.
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I have a list in "SharePoint in Microsoft 365" and am looking to extend its usefulness. I would like to create a button or something that can take a row of data and send it to an external site via API (another tool that we have created).
To be clear:
SharePoint initiates a GET or POST request
the request must have row or field data attached
the destination is outside of Microsoft/SharePoint
Can it be done?
(Apologies if this is a repeat question, I could only find answers that pertained to older versions of SharePoint and focused on hitting external APIs to retrieve data, not send it.)
OK, i think the best choice to send Data from a selected row, is to use the ListView Command Set here you can do anything with #pnp/nodejs.
Otherwise...
PowerAutomate can help send data.
I wont to pull data from a webpage on the basis of a criteria's into excel however I am unable to do so.
Website from which I wont to pull data can be logged in only via another website and not by just url.
For E.g. My site name is Elsc and to login into it I have to via another site Gatekeeper and elsc cannot be logged into in any other way.
So is there a solution to get data from such website by Macro.
Thanks in advance :)
I don't think Excel will give you this kind of control (controlling one URL from another URL). I tried to do this a long time ago; it never worked right. Can you just login to that URL and then run a simple VBA script to download the data? Also, consider using a Power Query to do this for you.
http://chandoo.org/wp/2015/08/21/import-web-data-power-query/
I tried to find this but I'm not exactly sure how to search for it or if it would even be possible. I'm trying to integrate a program I wrote with a commercial app, the commercial app has the ability to call an external program with a command and pass it the data that I want to capture.
I want to be able to get the currently open instance (or whichever responds first in the case of multiple instances) and send it the information directly and have it perform a function based on that information, I don't want to have to open a new instance.
I know one of my options is to drop a text file with the info and then have my program watch for it and parse it once found but if I can do a more direct communication I'd rather do that.
all it needs to do is fill a text box and run a function seems simple enough, and all I need is a point in the wright direction or some search terms that would pull up pertinent results. I'd like to understand how it works instead of just having someone write the code for me.
Thanks
I need to fetch company addresses(cim) from site http://www.ceginfo.hu/
Example Company Name: AB-KONTÍR Szolgáltató Bt.
I know how to do it using WinHttp.WinHttpRequest object and FireBug.
But I am not able to decide to which URL I should send this request.
When I analyse the request/responses using FireBug, I get the following URL:
http://www.ceginfo.hu/company/search/4221638
4221638 is CompanyID here I think. But in my case I will have company name only and that's what my problem is.
So can anybody please tell me where can I get URL using firebug or any other tool using which I can track the URL with Company Name as parameter which I can use in my VBA code.
Thanks in advance!
So can anybody please tell me where can I get URL using firebug or any
other tool using which I can track the URL with Company Name as
parameter which I can use in my VBA code.
No. Unless there is a publicly available database (I would suggest calling them, if you can) or an API that allows for programmatic access, the only way to arrive at this link slug is by executing the search.
Further, the post slog is not as relevant as you think. If you search for simply "Kontir", this is the resulting page -- with many results:
http://www.ceginfo.hu/company/search/4222407
You're going to have to automate the "search" -- passing the criteria to the Web Page and executing the button-click and/or HTTPPost, and then parse the result(s). In the example company name, there is only one result. But it is possible as in my example above, that there may be multiple matches for some queries, and then you will need to have a method of dealing with these, or ignoring them.
I was just introduced to the concept of Outlook forms. I don't know if this will solve my problem but here is what I want to do:
I want to be able to have employees who are inside the company fill out some forms. So all I have to do is create the form and PUSH it to their Outlook? After they fill out the form, can I capture the data somehow? Has anyone does this before? Can someone recommend a good tutorial/examples?
Update: The Outlook->Access option seems like a great one, but it seems like the form must be emailed by someone. In other words, if someone wants to fill out any form they first have to be emailed a form. What if a person wants to just fill out a form? How would he do it if he has no access to the Access database?
Here are three options:
This page is a really good jump page for custom forms in Outlook. In fact, that whole site is pretty good with lots of examples and links like Outlook Forms Step-by-Step Tutorial.
However, if you also have Access 2007, I'd actually recommend something simpler and easier to create email forms that can be sent to users and collect back all of the information. Once I discovered this in Access 2007 I never went back to custom Outlook forms.
Basically, you create an Access db with the data you want to collect and then in the "External Data" tab in Access 2007, you click "Create E-mail" and a wizard will walk you through creating an email with the form in the body (which is either HTML or InfoPath, depending on which one you choose). You send this to your users (you can have a recipient list in a table as well in your Access DB) and they fill out the form (I used it for surveys) and then they click submit. It goes back to your Outlook in a special folder and as soon as you open Outlook, it will synch it with the database. Then you can slice and dice all of that database information.
Here are some great tutorials on this:
Demo: Collect data in Access 2007 by
using e-mail
How to integrate Microsoft Access
and Outlook 2007
Finally, if you just want to collect back much simpler information, like "Yes", "No", "Maybe", the easiest way is to create voting buttons. Go to New Message -> Options - Voting Buttons. You can customize this if needed by separating your choices with a semi-colon ;.
In #2 and #3 above, these are scenarios to initiate data collection.
There are other situations where someone doesn't need a prompt via email to fill something out right there, but rather just submit a form (like an expense report, or a gas mileage report). #1 above (Outlook custom forms) is generally better choice in that scenario, but:
Outlook forms have typically been
harder to deploy and teach people to
use (there are things like "public
forms", "private forms", etc.)
Outlook forms have been, in practice,
been replaced by other technologies.
In particular, InfoPath/Forms Server and
Sharepoint Forms. This is because neither
of those two technologies requires
users to do a whole lot other than
follow a link to fill out a form. I used to know, about 10 years ago, many companies who tried to use Outlook forms and most of them gave up development of them in favor of other technologies.
This isn't to say that Outlook forms are bad in any way. If you don't have other technologies available to serve as a Forms Server, then this could be a decent option to consider.
To look at other semi-lightweight ways of form submission, you can use MS Word templates as the front end and have them update an Access DB. Here are a couple of good articles on this:
Import Data Directly from Word
Forms to Access Tables
How do I... Transfer data from a
Word form to an Access database?