Events does not appear when making an Outlook query from Excel - excel

I'm making an Excel sheet that helps me fill in my oursheet. To accomplish this I create a Power Query that takes data from my Outlook Calendar. However, I have noticed that recurring events only appears once. Also, there is nothing in the query that helps me figure out which events are recurring?
Can anybody help me get the recurring events into Excel through the query?

This is a bit of a conceptual shot in the dark from me, but if you're connecting to Exchange Online (from New Query -> Online Services -> Exchange Online) then you should see a column named Attributes, with records in it. If you look within those records, you should see each record has a field named AppointmentType--that might help you. There is also an IsRecurring field--which might be even more helpful. Further, there is a field called Recurrence, with a record in it that provides info about the recurrences, if any. Lastly, a FirstOccurence field and a LastOccurence field are also included, and might help you in some way as well.
I would think to first identify the recurring records (maybe based off the IsRecurring field, then get their attribute info related to each recurrence (most of which seems to be in the Recurrence field for each record) to construct the single entry items for the recurrences.

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How to create a search function within Excel

Could somebody please help me create a search feature in Excel, intended as a contact lookup? I'm reasonably comfortable in Excel up to 2016 but have no VBA knowledge so I hope this can be done without it. Using Excel 365 and it will be published to Sharepoint to specific users. I know it's poor practice on here to rely on sample data so I'll do my best to explain with a couple of screenshots.
Situation:
I have a raw data sheet containing 50,000 rows (CustomerName, ID, City, Country, EmailAddress etc). Our sales team need to look up contact details but only if they know the customer's name, or part thereof.
I need to hide the underlying data but a rudimentary system is acceptable, we just don't want to serve it up on a platter. The basic shove-it-under-the-mattress method by making it all white text; lock all cells; hide all rows and columns; password protect and hide the sheet is fine for now - no one will be determined enough to start picking that apart.
I've searched here and while there are similar results, nothing really fits perfectly. The most suitable so far was on extendoffice which doesn't quite suffice (will put link in attachment). It utilises SEARCH, RANK, ROW and VLOOKUP functions, the interaction of which I don't entirely understand, but it works.
Interim steps for the lookup function on sheet "Search"
Issues with current concept:
There's no discernable order to the results. The RANK and ROW functions seem to randomly assign ranks, and when you get 50+ results with no way of sorting it will be frustrating.
Whenever one person queries it undoes the last person's search. Expected, but not nice
Partial string search with results unsorted
Additionally:
This doc will be on Sharepoint, directly accessible by ~20 people. Ideally, when one person searches it won't change on someone else's screen
Results should appear alphabetically by customer name
Nice to haves:
Add another criteria to search by. Eg City or Account Manager - doesn't have to stack
Select and copy the contents of a cell (eg email address), but not allow editing of the value or formula. If not possible I'll leave the cells completely locked as the trade-off of accidentally overriding a formula is not worth it.
Any help would be super appreciated

Is is possible to check the lot number in Netsuite Inventory Detail against a value defined at the work order level?

We are having an issue with our team members entering completions for the wrong lot number. Does anyone know of a way to have the inventory detail sub-menu check against a lot number value assigned when creating the work order?
Lot number does not seem to be a native field when generating work orders, so I created a custom field for it, which seems to work okay and will propagate through the rest of the document chain, however, I do not have a guess at how to check inventory detail values against this field.

How does NetSuite calculate inventory?

we recently connected to our NetSuite using ODBC so we can navigate tables and query the database. I'm having difficulty determining how NS calculates inventory levels.
I noticed the table "Item_Location_Map" has quantity on hand which seems accurate, but I don't see a way to specify at what point in time. I figured maybe it calculates real time based on all transactional data but ran into another issue. All the details for a transaction are on the Transactions table and Tranaction_Lines except for...oddly enough...the quantity.
If I look up a say invoices and pull in the quantity field, it is always empty. Some invoices have a quantity_packed or quantity_picked value but that doesn't really help.
Any thoughts on what I might be missing?
A couple ways.
Stock Ledger and Inventory Valuation reports (not saved searches), which you can use through N/query.
Inventory Activity Detail saved search, which you can best use by setting the "Is Inventory Affecting" column criteria to true.
As for how that looks in the database, I am not certain, unfortunately. Also, I highly advise against using ODBC for something like this. A restlet or suitelet would be infinitely faster and more helpful.

how to call and sort data in a view?

I have two view, one is sorting 2011 data and the other one is sorting the 2012,
2013 is coming and I think, create another view is not good. Then I tried to code a formula to call the data in my database and send to view but it's not working .
please help me :)
I think your best option is to create another view. Notes doesn't do well with dynamic view selection formulas.
Another alternative to consider is to use categories to group data by year. You could then set up an embedded view that shows only a single category, which could be determined by a drop-down field that shows the available years.
A solution I have used when dealing with weekly or monthly date is to use an agent to create a new folder every week and to put the correct documents in the folder. But this is a lot of work and if there is a high volume of data you can run into problems with some of the internal limits of the Notes database structure. Someone with expert level knowledge of Notes can probably manage this, but I do not recommend it as a general solution -- and certainly not for yearly data.
Adding a view once a year is really not that bad. It's two minutes of work every 12 months, just copying and renaming the previous year's view and changing the selection formula.

fetch data from ms-access to ms-word

i am looking to create an invoice in either MS-excel or MS-word. This invoice will contain several fields like invoice no., customer name, product info, quantity, Amount, Date, Address of customer, phone no. etc. The function of the invoice will be, to generate a unique invoice number, every time i open it, and then the vendor will mention the customer's info, product's info and click on submit button or save it. The info mentioned in the invoice will automatically be saved in the MS-Access database whenever submit button is clicked or the document is saved.
Thus, All the records of the customer will be saved in the MS-Access database. whenever i need to search for a particular customer, i should be able to search it from either invoice no. or any unique field for that particular invoice. I hope my query is explained clearly. please let me know the easiest way to do it. I do not have the vast knowledge about this subject, so give me suggestions that are understandable by a Novice.
I think you are starting from the wrong end. Use an Access form to get the data and then run a mailmerge, the easiest way is to output a text file from Access as the data file and use a Word template for the merge.
An autonumber may suit for invoice number as long as all you need is a unique number. If you need documented sequential numbers, you will have to create then yourself. How you do it will depend on the number of users working at the same time.
I can tell you now, generating Word files with Access is a bit of a pain in the ass. If you really want to do formatting it gets hard (is my experience).
I ended up generating HTML files in which I could control everything, and opening them as .docs. But if you are really new to this, I suggest you start with some VBA tutorials, where they explain to you how you get records from you database and loop through them to generate output. And then you can start looking at file writing functions in VBA.
Can't find any tutorials real quick (my girlfriend is getting angry as we speak), but here is a sample:
http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=25354
Just look around in fora, look for file generation and looping through records.
Hi just reading your post, like Remou l would strongly suggest you use Access to enter and store the data. It is possible to get a user to enter data into a spreadsheet and write the data back to Access DB. Not something l would recommend for the novice, here is a link to some code on how it could be done
Returning to your first question, of creating the invoice have you considered generating the invoices from Access using a report? They can be printed to PDF, or exported to various electronic formats. Or is there specific reason to use Word/Excel? If are going down the route of using Word to generate the invoice then use a template as Remou suggested. See this link for some samples see the section titled Access > Word. I have used the examples as a basis for Access to Word. A number of the examples though use a tecnology called DAO, which l understand will not be included in any operating system after Windows 7. Just something to be aware of.
Searching for a record in a database table this link has one possible solution . Also the author has included a example database.

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