I am fairly new to the Alteryx.
I would like to create a process/workflow in Alteryx to import a file from a specified location but that should be controlled by the input parameters.
Kindly help me in this.
Thanks,
RTJ
You can connect an Interface Tool:File Browse via an Interface Tool:Action to change the file selected to an In/Out:Input Data:
You will then want to run the workflow using the Run As Analytic App:
In the developer tool category, you'll find the Dynamic Input tool. This works much like the standard Input Data tool, but can take records in to modify the data it collects.
https://help.alteryx.com/2018.2/DynamicInput.htm
It sounds like you have files in a standard location, but want to be able to dynamically select the ones to load.
Let's say you have a collection of sales files in the format "Sales_20190718.csv" but want to only get sales information for certain dates as specified in your workflow. You can point your Dynamic Input tool to the Sales_20190718.csv, and have it replace the "20190718" part with whatever input you gave to the tool before querying the information.
You could get a similar result by using wildcards in a basic Input Data tool by pulling data from "Sales_*", and ticking the "Output File Name as Field" box. This would load all your sales data (which could take some time) but then you could filter to the relevant files using the new FileName field.
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Here is the situation: I'm 'having fun' really using Microsoft Access for the first time for small personnal project/tools ideas.
I don't know anything about VBA yet, and unless I can't do without it, I don't plan to learn it this time (already a lot else to cover).
So I tried to use Python to automatize the main table filling. I did find pyodbc package and succeeded to connect, read and write some data out of my database.
However, I wanted to experiment a little further, and one of the fields could contain hyperlinks (could be handled somewhere else in another script later, but I am curious about the functionality anyway)...
But I couldn't figure how to insert hyperlink data in the table. I only get the displayed text set, but not the target one.
Is this feasible using pyodbc or am I on the wrong track?
Thanks in advance!
Emmanuel
The hyperlink field in MS Access consists of three parts, separated by #:
display text # filename or target # location within the document
So an example of the data of a field can look like this:
StackOverflow#http://www.stackoverflow.com#
See the docs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/access.application.hyperlinkpart
and samples here also: http://allenbrowne.com/casu-09.html
In COGNOS is there a way to get the definitions (filters, selected fields) from a number of reports in a folder?
I've inherited around 500 reports defined in a folder and they all need to be checked and fixed as they have business errors (not technical errors). If it was possible to get all their definitions in a single extract that would save an enormous amount of time having to click multiple times to get that information from each report one by one.
In ACCESS this can be done with VBA (for query definitions), but I'm not sure if there is a scripting language that can be used with COGNOS to achieve a similar result.
It sounds like you may want to "validate" each of these 500 reports (effectively equivalent to pressing the "validate" button on each individual report if it was open in the authoring studio).
Validation will ensure that a report specification XML is still syntactically correct, references a package which is still present the content store, references only query items from that package which still exist, generates valid SQL vs. the underlying datasource, etc.
If that's what you're looking for, an easy way to do batch validation for all 500 reports would be to use MotioPI (its a free admin tool for Cognos). Here's a short article which walks you through the process:
http://info.motio.com/Blog/bid/70357/Batch-Validation-of-Cognos-Reports
If you're wanting to retrieve the actual report specification (XML) for each of these 500 objects, then you'd need to write a program which utilizes the Cognos SDK to retrieve the specification XML from each of the 500 report objects. After that, you'd need to add logic which examines each of these 500 XML documents, looking for whatever it is you're looking for.
We solved this by exporting the XML of the reports using a SQL query on the content store.
The output is processed with a Python script to convert XML to table layout in CSV format.
This CSV-file can easely be imported in Excel.
You might want to process the reports XML directly in a SQL query with the xmltable function. In our situation this turned out to be a heavy proces we don't want to burden the content store database with. For a small set of reports this is working fine though.
I'm currently working on maintaining some old (new format .xlsx) excels with more than 60+ connections each that feed some various tables from a SqlServer.
I'm in search of some kind of toolkit, module, standalone script (or anything really) that let me bulk change the command text inside each connection properties.
The change should be not harder than changing part of the table name as the new table only contains the information that the table needs.
So far, the only thing that gets near what I need are those python modules but they don't appear to implement anything for handling connections.
Thank you in advance for any help you can provide.
Is there any way to dictate the format of a Crystal Report via the registry? I have come across various registry entries, such as:
HKLM\Software\Business Objects\Suite 11.5\Crystal Reports\Export\Excel
HKCU\Software\Business Objects\Suite 11.5\Crystal Reports Designer Component\Export\Excel
Which contain a number of keys, like MailDestDLL, ExportDirectory, etc.
What I cannot find is any documentation which would contain an entry for me to, for example, write ExcelDataOnly underneath Export, which would force the default export format to be Excel (Date Only). Currently, it is formatted Excel. I realize I can simply select the proper format from within Crystal, but these are automated, so we don't have the option for doing that. I'd like to control as much as possible through the registry as it pertains to the export of reports.
We use a product called VisualCUT that makes it easy to schedule and automate the export, printing, and bursting of reports.
Why would you need to rewrite the reports ?
I am using R-Tag and you can schedule and set the export type, for example excel, pdf, excel data only etc. If you don't have a budget for new software you can use R-Tag Community edition (http://www.r-tag.com/Pages/CommunityEdition.aspx), which is free and still coming with a nice scheduler and plenty of features.
I have a page with an interactive report. If I do a 'Control Break' and have an aggregate in place, is there a way I can export the results to Excel, exactly the way it appears on the page?
When I 'Download' the report, it appears as the third screen shot, which is not separated.
Interactive Report Results:
How I would like to export the data to Excel:
The format that is currently exported:
The download to excel is always in CSV format. The file extension is not .xlsxbut .CSV. So, i'd say no.
It's tough too. Even if you were to create a custom export to excel you'd have to extract the current query of the report (which is something that has finally been made easier in 4.2, but is possible in 4.0/1 with 3rd party packages). Then you'd also have to account for the control break(s) you applied, since those are not reflected in the IR query (even with APEX_IR).
I've dabbled with generating an xlsx file and made a blogpost/sample application on that if you'd like to see what it encompasses. Be aware that this is taking 'custom solution' to the extreme though (at least, in my opinion).
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=10063
you could create the report in BI Publisher in Oracle, then through APEX, you can call the report with parameters.
Actually APEX Office Print (AOP) supports exporting for Interactive Report and Interactive Grid (and others) to Excel, exactly as you see on the screen (so including breaks, group by etc)