I have build several Visio diagrams and posted them on my web server as .htm. Now I would like to make a script that update the values of the labels on the in the shapes automatically once on every hour from a file with data (.csv or .txt). Is there a way to automatically pull those values and put them in the .htm file of the visio diagram?
Visio shapes can be linked to an external data source. Just replace the fixed text on the shape with fields that refer to the shape data. Take a look at http://office.microsoft.com/en-ca/visio-help/demo-show-it-like-it-is-connect-data-to-your-visio-diagram-HA010051819.aspx
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I have 1700 PDF datasheets that contain a set of text and image boxes. The underlying template of each datasheet is the same, but the contents of the boxes vary. I'd like to find a program that lets me take the modified text box contents (summarized in an excel table) and repopulate the original sheets.
I have extracted the information from the text boxes using the "Merge Data files into an excel file" under the Prepare Form tool in Adobe DC and have used a variety of =Substitute functions in excel to change the contents of the text boxes to what I want. What I would like to do now is use a program to go back to the original .PDF and overwrite the original fields. I would just run a mail merge on this normally, but I don't have access to the images anymore so the image boxes would be blank.
Alternatively I've considered using something like Pulover Macro Creator to step through the excel list and paste in the contents into every sheet, but I'm hoping that there's an existing piece of software to do this.
Is there a way to export images to XML from SSRS?
Images column invisible when I open XML file via excel.
When export my report to excel directly no problem i can see the images.
Any suggestion?
Thanks,
You can't do this because the XML renderer is a data renderer that writes to a text file, much like the CSV renderer. That means that it doesn't attempt to export certain formatting and visual elements. Excel won't ever be able to load them because they weren't saved in the file in the first place. Just as if you were loading an exported CSV.
The Excel renderer, on the other hand, is a layout renderer which attempts to preserve those visual elements. Sometimes at the cost of making the data more difficult to work with.
Per the MDSN reference, https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd283112.aspx:
The XML rendering extension returns a paginated report in XML format. The schema for the report XML is specific to the report, and contains data only. Layout information is not rendered and pagination is not maintained by the XML rendering extension.
And https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd255234.aspx:
The Excel renderer is primarily a layout renderer. Its goal is to replicate the layout of the rendered report as closely as possibly in an Excel worksheet and consequently cells might be merged in the worksheet to preserve the report layout.
XML files themselves are text-based and rarely contain images. Even with image data stored as Base64, that would not achieve the result of having a column display images when opening in Excel.
One area where XMLs were used to store image data were the 2003 XML Office document formats, which stored them in a <pkg:binaryData>element. There's a chance you could generate such a file using an XLST transformation and a lot of work. But that is likely beyond the scope of your question, and at that point you would be better served just using the Excel renderer.
So what my client wants to accomplish seems pretty simple. We will have PPTX file template with a few Excel sheets embedded in it, and a few charts too.
We have created such template file. We are able to extract it, update excel files that sit in ppt/embedded directory with new ones, and pack it back.
The problem is, the display values of the tables or charts do not update automatically when such file is opened. You have to double click on a spreadsheet table or chart to trigger "edit mode". When you leave it the charts are updated.
We figured that internally, PowerPoint is doing screenshots of tables or charts, and uses it to display presentation. This is probably to allow presentation players that do not come with Excel to correctly render the presentation with embedded sheets.
Is there a way I can programatically update the screenshots of tables/charts? Is there some sort of API from Microsoft that would allow me to do that, like "MS Office API".
Maybe there is some way to have MS office configured/scripted, so I send it a file, it runs a VB script on it and returns updated value? I figured I can actually trigger update to screenshots with VB script. But I don't know if I can orchestrate Office program to do what I want.
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I'm currently working as an intern at the National Institute of Aviation Research(NIAR) and have been tasked with creating a report generator. The report generator will fetch all data graphs, pictures, documents, etc. within the network drive and merge them into one main report document. The problem I am facing is how do I manage 4 different table of contents? I know I can just make custom heading styles in Microsoft Word itself, however, everyone using the software will not have those custom heading styles available unless they create them. Is there a way to dynamically create heading styles using vb.net?
For example, I want to create custom heading style "CustomHeader"
then I want to use the vb.net command below:
document.paragraphs(document.paragraphs.count).Range.Style = "CustomHeader"
Thank you in advance,
-Rueben Ramirez
I am working on developing weather graphics in PowerPoint 2010 for our online weather forecast operation. I am trying to update formatted text (Word Art type formatting, such as text outlining, shadowing, etc.,) automatically within a PowerPoint slide.
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I have looked through the numerous articles both here and elsewhere on how to dynamically update text from Excel cells in PowerPoint and other methods, but I can't find any way of updating text such as the temperature values in the map above, while still keeping the visual formatting (which is absolutely crucial for this project). Is there any way to do this in text format, or would I just be better off developing the system so that the text values on the map are actually auto-updating images, so that the formatting is preserved? If that is the route I must take, I am fine with that. I just need pointed in the right direction. Any help would be tremendously appreciated.
Thank you for your time...