Okay this might be a interesting question but if there is a custom form people use on Outlook to submit files to be posted online, is there anyway (when the send button is pressed) to sync that file to a Sharepoint database (archive) of these file types?
These files are generally reports and we are trying to keep an archive of them without making it a two step process - 1. submit web request 2. then upload to archive.
The short but unhelfpful answer is - yes, you can do that. There are several APIs available for integrating with SharePoint that provide the ability to upload files. You can build this functionality in an Outlook COM Add-in. However, a lot more specifics are required for a more detailed answer.
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I need to get the features of each .sldprt file as the data of other project. But the truth is I have over 50000 .sldprt files, which takes lots of time to open each in solidworks and traverse its features and close it automatically. And I didn't find any solution in api documentation of solidworks in SOLIDWORKS Document Manager api Help. So is there anyway to get the features and sketches directly without opening the file in solidworks? Such as using the solidworks Document Manager api?
Unfortunately, no. SolidWorks Document manager can not access any feature or sketch information.
There is no way to go around opening each files in SolidWorks.
But there are some options that could speed up the process. See:
https://cadbooster.com/improve-solidworks-macro-speed-10x/
I have found different scripts for Java, C#, and Access VBA for uploading a file to Google Drive. But the only thing I have found with Excel VBA, is a script saving the file in your local Google Drive folder and then wait for the application to sync it.
Is it possible to somehow upload the Excel file directly to a folder that has been shared with me? If yes, how?
I actually managed to do this.
First, you need to create credentials. Follow this guide: https://updraftplus.com/support/configuring-google-drive-api-access-in-updraftplus/
The credentials should be OAuth Client ID
Application Type: Other
Secondly, I downloaded this Access VBA code found here https://stackoverflow.com/a/34627231/1042624
Afterwards, in the Access document, there will be a settings box. You need to fill in the information about your account and the credentials from step 1 here. Then you can use the upload button, and it will work.
However, if you want to use this in Excel and without the form boxes, then you have to step through the code and find where the settings form boxes´ info are being used. It takes quite a while, and the code is too long to post here. But now you at least have the information on how to do it.
NB: I still did not crack the 2-step verification that I have enabled.
Recently I have created an Addin for my outlook 2013 in VB.net. I usually do a lot of modifications on this application especially in the beginning. These modification automatically download when a user starts its outlook as soon I publish the project.
The question I have, and which I cant seem to figure out how to do it is:
Is it possible to show the user some kind of custom made UPDATE pop-up text when outlook automatically updates the addin?
So a user starts its outlook, then the outlook usually executes the updates pretty fast and then I want them to show some kind of message which contains the updates being done.
I have no clue if this is possible though and I cant seem to find an option for it in the publish tab of visual studio. Can this be done with code, and if so, how?
ClickOnce doesn't provide anything for that. See Deploying an Office Solution by Using ClickOnce for more information.
In the new version of the software which you are going to publish you may add a message box. It can be shown for the first run only. For example, add a windows registry key which indicates that the add-in (new version) is run for the first time. Reading the value at runtime will help you to decide whether such message box is required or not.
Was wondering if anyone could help me out. I have written a report in SSRS 2008. I would like to add a button or a link on the page that will email the currently run report.
I know I can do this in subscription and set a schedule for this however the data needs to be checked before an email can be sent out.
Thanks for taking a look
Rusty
Essentially what you want to do is put a mailto link on the page that generates an email when the user clicks on it. There is a component of the mailto link which will include an attachment. However, the attachment must be a locally housed file, it cannot be stored at a web address. See more here.
If the report you are running does not require many resources, you can set up a subscription which will, on a scheduled basis (say every 5 minutes), write the report to a file on a shared drive. Therefore, the report is constantly being written and updated at a local path. Then, you should be able to use the "&attachment=" portion of the mailto link to refer to this subscription-generated file sitting somewhere on a shared drive. This might not be a good option for you if you're counting on up-to-the-second data in this report you're generating. Then again, if you're having the report manually reviewed by human eyes, then that's probably not too much of an issue.
If you pursue this solution, it will be important to keep in mind that whatever shared drive you have your subscription write the file to will need to be accessible by anyone that will be clicking on that mailto link. It's not sufficient for you to have access to it. When that mailto link is clicked, it will use Windows authentication (or authentication from whatever system you're using) to connect to that shared drive and retrieve the file.
Best of luck!
I created a time recording program in vb.net with a sql-server as backend. User can send there time entries into the database (i used typed datasets functionality) and send different queries to get overviews over there working time.
My plan was to put that exe in a folder in our network and let the user make a link on their desktops. Every user writes into the same table but can only see his own entries so there is no possibility that two user manipulate the same dataset.
During my research i found a warning that "write contentions between the different users" can be occur. Is that so in my case?
Has anyone experience with "many user using the same exe" and where that is using datasets and could give me an advice whether it is working or what i should do instead?
SQL Server will handle all of your multi-user DB access concerns.
Multiple users accessing the same exe from a network location can work but it's kind of a hack. Let's say you wanted to update that exe with a few bug fixes. You would have to ensure that all users close the application before you could release the update. To answer you question though, the application will be isolated to each user running it. You won't have any contention issues when it comes to CRUD operations on the database due to the network deployment.
You might consider something other than a copy/paste style publishing of your application. Visual Studio has a few simple tools you can use to publish your application to a central location using ClickOnce deployment.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/31kztyey(v=vs.110).aspx
My solution was to add a simple shutdown-timer in the form, which alerts users to saving their data before the program close att 4 AM.
If i need to upgrade, i just replace the .exe on the network.
Ugly and dirty, yes... but worked like a charm for the past 2 years.
good luck!