Relatively new to Blue Prism,
I have a collection that looks like this, with 100+ rows:
Results
Answer
Timestamp
8 Apr 2021
Name
ABC
I'd like to manipulate the data such that if Results = 'Name', Get the Answer (aka ABC) and put it into a data item.
Is there any way to do this?
I understand I could hardcode i.e. Get value based on Row Index and Column Index, but my data is complex and may not always have the same rox index.
Can you use the collection filter to get a collection output? The utility has an action to filter where you can input a collection and then use
[FieldName] Like "some value"
This would result in every complete row in the collection that matches the filter.
Related
I have a collection with job titles and question id's called colFunctions. I want to compare the job titles in the collection to a single known job title (a text value) and return a list of question id's.
So for the function Jr. System Administrator I want to get a list with ID's of Q01 and Q03, but not Q02.
I have this so far, but it says I can't compare a table to a text value. How can I overcome this?
ClearCollect(
colMatchedFunction,
Filter(colFunctions,Function = Office365Users.UserProfileV2(galleryDirectReports.Selected.userPrincipalName).jobTitle).QuestionID
);
If Function is a text column in SharePoint, or a multi-select choice column? If it is a text column, you can use the in operator, which can check if a the text contains the given id:
ClearCollect(
colMatchedFunction,
Filter(
colFunctions,
Office365Users.UserProfileV2(galleryDirectReports.Selected.userPrincipalName).jobTitle).QuestionID in Function
));
In a multi-select choice column, you can still use the in operator, this time to check if a value belongs to a table, checking it against the 'Value' property of the multi-select column (which returns the text value represented by the choice):
ClearCollect(
colMatchedFunction,
Filter(
colFunctions,
Office365Users.UserProfileV2(galleryDirectReports.Selected.UserPrincipalName).jobTitle
in Function.Value
));
Can you please provide the query to append data to an existing value in a column of type text? Something similar to this:
UPDATE cycling.upcoming_calendar SET events = events + ['Tour de France Stage 10'] WHERE year = 2015 AND month = 06;
The above query will update a list. My column datatype is text.
In my case, if the column "events" has a value, "Test" I want to update it to the value, "Test , Test1".
Appending data to a text column is not possible in Cassandra. The only possible options I can think of are
Option 1 : Change the column data type to List
Option 2 : Fetch the data from the column in your application and then append the new value to the existing value, and finally update the DB.
We have a spreadsheet that gets updated monthly, which queries some data from our server.
The query url looks like this:
http://example.com/?2016-01-31
The returned data is in a json format, like below:
{"CID":"1160","date":"2016-01-31","rate":{"USD":1.22}}
We only need the value of 1.22 from the above and I can get that inserted into the worksheet with no problem.
My questions:
1. How to use a cell value [contain the date] to pass the date parameter [2016-01-31] in the query and displays the result in the cell next to it.
2. There's a long list of dates in a column, can this query be filled down automatically per each date?
3. When I load the query result to the worksheet, it always load in pairs. [taking up two cells, one says "Value", the other contains the value which is "1.22" in my case]. Ideally I would only need "1.22", not the title, can this be removed? [Del won't work, will give you a "Column 1" instead, or you have to hide the entire row which will mess up with the layout].
I know this is a lot to ask but I've tried a lot of search and reading in the last few days and I have to say the M language beats me.
Thanks in advance.
Convert your Web.Contents() request into a function:
let
myFunct = ( param as date ) => let
x = Web.Contents(.... & Date.ToText(date) & ....)
in
x
in
myFunct
Reference your data request function from a new query, include any transformations you need (in this case JSON.Document, table expansions, remove extraneous data. Feel free to delete all the extra data here, including columns that just contain the label 'value'.
(assuming your table of domain values already exists) add a custom column like
=Expand(myFunct( [someparameter] ))
edit: got home and got into my bookmarks. Here is a more detailed reference for what you are looking to do: http://datachix.com/2014/05/22/power-query-functions-some-scenarios/
For a table - Add column where you get data and parse JSON
let
tt=#table(
{"date"},{
{"2017-01-01"},
{"2017-01-02"},
{"2017-01-03"}
}),
add_col = Table.AddColumn(tt, "USD", each Json.Document(Web.Contents("http://example.com/?date="&[date]))[rate][USD])
in
add_col
If you need only one value
Json.Document(Web.Contents("http://example.com/?date="&YOUR_DATE_STRING))[rate][USD]
Problem
I have two queries, one contains product data (data_query), the other (recode_query) contains product names from within the data_query and assigns them specific id_tags. id_tags are also column names within the data_query.
What I need to achieve and fail at
I need the data_query to look at the id_tag of the specific product name within the data_query, as parsed from the recode_query (this is already working and in place) and input the retrieved value within the specific custom column cell. In Excel, I would be using INDEX/MATCH combo:
{=INDEX(data_query[#Data];; MATCH(data_query[#id_tag]; data_query[#Headers]; 0))}
I have searched near and far, but I probably can't even spot the solution, even if I have come across it, as I am not that deep in the data manipulation and power query myself.
Is this what you're wanting?
let
DataQuery = Table.FromColumns({{1,2,3}, {"Boxed", "Bagged", "Rubberbanded"}}, {"ID","Pkg"}),
RecodeQuery = Table.FromColumns({{"Squirt Gun", "Coffee Maker", "Trenching Tool"}, {1,2,3}}, {"Prod Name", "ID2"}),
Rzlt = Table.Join(DataQuery, "ID", RecodeQuery, "ID2", JoinKind.Inner)
in
Rzlt
I have predefined item combination (for example brand1|brand2|brand3 etc) in the table.
i like to collect brands and check against with predefined table data.
For example i collected brand1|brand2|brand3 then i can do get some value form that predefined table(it meets the condition).
How can i check?
brands would be unlimited. also brand1|brand2|brand3 of brand1|brand2| exist then returns true.
Okay, taking a wild guess at what you're asking, you have a delimited field with brands in them separated by a | character. You want to return any row that has the right combination of the brands in there, but don't want to return rows with, for example, brand "testify" in them when you search for "test".
You have four search conditions (looking for brand3):
the brand exists by itself: "brand3"
the brand starts the delimited field: "brand3|brand4|brand6"
the brand is in the middle of the field: "brand1|brand3|brand6"
the brand is at the end of the field: "brand1|brand2|brand3"
so, in SQL:
SELECT *
FROM MyTable
WHERE BrandField = 'brand3'
OR BrandField LIKE 'brand3|%'
OR BrandField LIKE '%|brand3|%'
OR BrandField LIKE '%|brand3'
Repeat as required for multiple brands.