Run script on Task Scheduler windows where an excel file is created - excel

I need help with that problem. Searching on Google, I've found a way to run the R script without error. It's creating a .bat file with the directorys of Rscript.exe and the script I want to run:
My script is very simple: create a dataframe and save it on a Excel.
library(xlsx)
employee <- c('John Doe','Peter Gynn','Jolie Hope')
salary <- c(21000, 23400, 26800)
startdate <- as.Date(c('2010-11-1','2008-3-25','2007-3-14'))
employ.data <- data.frame(employee, salary, startdate)
write.xlsx(employ.data, 'prueba_r_excel.xlsx')
print('final script')
When I manually run the file, it works without problems and creates the Excel:
But when I put it on task scheduler of windows,
it seems that it does the whole script without problems (it shows the print) but it doesn't create the file for me. Someone knows what could be the problem? Do I have to give some kind of special permission to creat new files from the task scheduler?

First I thought that Task Scheduler could not create new files, because I saw that the Task Scheduler doesn't have write permissions. But later I found the error, and that is that in the part of the path where the file is saved you have to put it entire.
The problem was that if I ran the R script manually, the Excel is created in that same folder, but when executing it from the Task Scheduler I also created it but in another folder (system32)

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How to share a variable between 2 pyRevit scripts?

I am using the latest version of pyRevit, v45.
I'm writing some info in temporary files with
myTempFile = script.get_instance_data_file("id")
This creates a file named pyRevit_2018_xxxx_id.tmp in which I store useful info. If I'm not mistaken, the "xxxx" part is changing every time I reload Revit. Now, I need to get access to this information from another pyRevit script.
How can I retrieve the name of the temp file I need to read? In other words, how do I access "myTempFile" from within the second script, which has no idea of the name of "myTempFile"?
I guess I can share somehow that variable between my script, but what's the proper way to do this? I know this must be a very basic programming question, but I'm indeed not a programmer ;)
Thanks a lot,
Arnaud.
Ok, I realise now that my variables in the 1st script cease to exist after its execution.
So for now I wrote the file name in another file, of which I know the name.. That works.
But if there's a cleaner way to do this, I'd be glad to learn ;)
Arnaud
pyrevit.script module provides 4 different methods for creating temporary files based on their use case:
get_instance_data_file:
for data files marked with Revit instance pid. This means that scripts running on another instance will not see this temp file.
http://pyrevit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pyrevit/script.html#pyrevit.script.get_instance_data_file
get_universal_data_file:
for temp files accessible to all Revit instances and versions
http://pyrevit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pyrevit/script.html#pyrevit.script.get_universal_data_file
get_data_file:
Base method to get a standard temp file for current revit version
http://pyrevit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pyrevit/script.html#pyrevit.script.get_data_file
get_document_data_file:
temp file marked with active document (so scripts working on another document will not see this)
http://pyrevit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pyrevit/script.html#pyrevit.script.get_document_data_file
Each method uses a pattern to create the temp file name. So as long as the call to the method is the same of different scripts, the method generates the same file name.
Example:
Script 1:
from pyrevit import script
tfile = script.get_data_file('mydata')
Script 2:
from pyrevit import script
tempfile = script.get_data_file('mydata')
In this example tempfile = tfile since the file id is the same.
There is documentation on each so make sure you take a look at those and pick the flavor that serves your purpose.

Python ImportError when executing through windows scheduler

I did some searches for this topic and found some prior threads, but I did not understand any of them as I am still a total beginner in Python.
I have a Python script which has some long string variables stored in various .py files in a sub-directory. I'm importing the .py files from that sub-directory when I run the script. There is a __init__.py file in the sub-directory. The only reason I'm using this setup is that the long string variables which I'm storing in those other files would make the code very difficult to read as they are SQL strings and can span 50-100 lines each.
Everything works perfectly when I run this script through PyCharm.
However, when I run the script through Windows Scheduler or a batch file, I get an ImportError for all of the .py files in the sub-directory. The problem is definitely related to the python script not knowing where to look for those .py files when it's run through Windows Scheduler. But I'm not sure how to fix it.
The action for the scheduler task is to run the python exe
D:\Python35\python.exe
with the argument as the script
D:\python\tableaudatasourcebuilds\dcitechnicalperformance\dcitechnicalperformance0.py
So the full action looks like:
D:\Python35\python.exe "D:\python\tableaudatasourcebuilds\dcitechnicalperformance\dcitechnicalperformance0.py"
The subdirectory which stores the long string variables .py files is:
D:\python\tableaudatasourcebuilds\dcitechnicalperformance\dcitechnicalperformance0\
The imports look like:
from dcitechnicalperformance.dcitechnicalperformance0.dciquer import nzsqldciwk
Does anyone know how to address this problem? Any help is much appreciated.
Good afternoon,
First of all i don't know how much sense there is to store long SQL querys on a module, I'm not by any means an expert, but something like a JSON file (or hell, even store them in a table inside the sql) seems like a better approach.
About your problem I think it resides on the current directory where the task is launched, let me explain:
In PyCharm when you run the code it launches from the location of the file, and with so, it's able to find the directory with the module.
With the scheduled task it may be launching in another directory and so, it's unable to find the module as the directory is not present.
If you decide to stick with your reproach a plausible solution would be to create a .bat file that browses to the project location:
#ECHO OFF
D:
cd D:\python\tableaudatasourcebuilds\dcitechnicalperformance\
D:\Python35\python.exe dcitechnicalperformance0.py
And that should work.

Rename images after they're scanned - Python3

I am trying to do a Python3 program that rename the files in a sequential order immediatly after they're scanned.
For example: The Scanner create the files named Scan_001.jpg, Scan_002.jpg and so on, and then, if i remove one of the .jpg files, the the scanner will restart the Counter. I don't need that.
What i want to do, is rename the scanner files to a sequential order, regardless what the file name is, the sequence must continue to a crescent order and never restart the counter.
something like:
counter = 0
if newfile
rename newfilefile.jpg to file_counter.jpg
counter++
end
that's the logic i want to follow, but in Python3 and it must save the counter for the future scanned files.
Sorry, english isn't my mother language.
Thank's for the help guys!
Edit: I made this simple script.
import os, time
os.rename('teste', time.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S.jpg"))
Now, i need to automate this code to run on each Scan_xxx.jpg file each time that the scanner generate the file.
Solution: I made the script run on the Windows Task Scheduler every 1 minute. It's not the appropriate but it is doing his job.

Access test resources within Haskell tests

This is probably a basic question but I've been Googling for a while on it... I have a Cabal-ized Haskell project and I'm in the process of writing integration tests for it. I want to be able to include test resources for my project in the same repo and access them in tests. For example, here are a couple things I want to accomplish:
1) Check a dummy database instance into my repo, including a shell script that spins up a database process. I want to write an Hspec integration test that spins up the database process, makes some calls to it, and then shuts it down. So I need to be able to find the shell script so I can use System.Process.createProcess on it.
2) Check in paired "input" and "output" files. My test should process each of the input files and compare them to a corresponding output file to make sure they match. (I've read about "golden" but it doesn't seem to solve the problem of finding/reading the input files in the first place?)
In short, how can I go about creating a "resources" folder in the root folder of my Haskell project and find the path to it inside tests?
Have a look at an existing project that uses input and output file.
For example, take haddock, the source code is at https://github.com/haskell/haddock. They have the test files under a folder (https://github.com/haskell/haddock/tree/master/html-test/ref) and they are referenced as extra-source-files in the cabal file (https://github.com/haskell/haddock/blob/master/haddock.cabal). Then the test code (https://github.com/haskell/haddock/blob/master/html-test/run.lhs) uses some CPP macro (__FILE__) to get the current directory, and can then resolve the files relative to that folder.

executing script file from azure blob and write its results to file

I'll explain the task requested from me:
I have two containers in Azure, one called "data" and one called "script". In the "data" container there's a txt file with data, and in the "script" container there's a script file.
Now, I need programatically (with WorkerRole) to execute the script file, with the content of the data file as parameters (Example: a script file that accepts a string 's' and returns to the screen "Hello, 's'", when 's' in the string given, and in the data file there's a string), and save the result of the run into another file which needs to be saved in another container called "result".
How do I do all these? I've already uploaded the files and created the blobs programatically, but I can't seem to understand how to execute the file of how to save its result to another file?
Can I please have some help?
Thanks in advance
Here are the steps in pseudo code:
Retrieve the script from the blob(using DownloadToStream())
Compile the script(I will leave this to you as I have no idea what
format your script is)
Load parameters from blob(same as step 1)
Execute script with those parameters.
If your script's can be written as lambda expressions then this becomes a lot easier as you can turn them into Action's
Edit based on your questiions:
DownloadText() is no longer included in Azure Storage 2.0, you only have access to DownloadToStream(). Even if you are using an older version(say 1.7) I would recommend using DownloadToStream() in the event you ever upgrade in the future. This will prevent having to refactor your code.
In terms of executing your script, depending on what type of script it is(if it is c# code you can use this example: Is it possible to dynamically compile and execute C# code fragments?. If you need to execute a different type of script you would need to run it using Process.Start and you can look at this example: http://www.dotnetperls.com/process-start
I do not have much experience with point number 2 but those are the processes I have heard and seen used.

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