I am using OBIEE 12c and recently I created a data source from excel file using Visual Analyzer. I used this data source for creating analysis and it worked correctly.
However, when I wanted to create an action link from this data source column to the other analysis in obiee created using another subject area, I got wrong results. So my question is, does OBIEE support action links between data sources created in VA and subject areas created in Admin Tool? If yes, how to do that?
If your table/column names do not match then the vanilla interaction will never work.
You will have to go for the GoURL approach: https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/12213/biee/BIEIT/apiwebintegrate.htm#BIEIT355
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I have created an Excel document-level customization in Visual Studio 2017 using Windows 7. The document provides a set of tools for charting and analyzing data that are contained in several worksheets within the document.
I would like to provide the end user multiple versions of this document without publishing each one separately. Each version differs only in the data that will be contained. All the code, classes, subs, and functions would be identical for each version. I was hoping they could
rely on the same assembly.
I tested this by publishing a document (named DocumentA) on a test PC (Windows10) and then copying an additional file (named DocumentB). Trying to open DocumentB in Excel produces the following error:
Could not load assembly "DocumentA", Version 1.0.0.0. Culture =Neutral or one of its dependencies. The System could not find the file specified.
I think I understand why this happens. However, if I save the original published document DocumentA as DocumentB1, I can open the renamed file
with no problem. Not sure why this works and the other case does not. The property settings for assembly name and location were identical for DocumentA and DocumentB.
Is there any type of work-around? Or must I publish each of these additional documents separately?
Thanks!
I would like to provide the end user multiple versions of this document without publishing each one separately.
You need to create separate document level add-ins then. Or you may consider developing a single application-level add-in instead. See Walkthrough: Create your first VSTO Add-in for Excel for more information.
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.
Each month I have to manually create a report for my team. For this I use a combination of numbers generated from a groovy script I've written, screenshot, cut & paste from a series of charts in our JIRA instance and cut and pasted excel charts.
I'm finding it more and more boring to do this by hand and I suspect that there is an easier way to automatically generate this report. I can generate the word document with data from the groovy script using this application (http://www.docmosis.com/) but I have not yet found a way of auto including JIRA charts in the generation or excel so my question is:
Is it possible to generate a word document that contains generated data from various sources including (in order of importance):
JIRA charts
Programmatically generate data and
Excel charts?
As you already coded your logic in Groovy, best would be skipping the Excel step and generate your report directly from JIRA using the JIRA PDF View Plugin. This plugin will reduce your work to a single click and download you a nice PDF document (PDF is more portable than Word docs).
These short tutorials help you:
Reuse your Groovy scripts for reporting logic (also see the "Charts" tutorial there)
Bring the data, charts and the template together
Update 2 years after my original answer:
JIRA PDF View Plugin 3.5.0+ can also export JIRA charts (gadgets in JIRA dashboards, to be precise). So, now you can execute your Groovy scripts, include JIRA charts and bring all the result together in a professional PDF document.
Even better, now there exists a free plugin that will make the monthly process 100% automatic for you! It will generate your PDF document and send that to your team members' mailboxes, according to the preferred schedule (CRON trigger).
Related tutorials:
Exporting JIRA dashboards to PDF
Automating JIRA PDF exports
Discl: I'm a developer working on these products, yet this is the best solution to your problem. :-)
Most of the charts generated in Jira are created from data returned from search results. So you can get data from Jira using REST or SOAP api and generate your own charts by other means.
I am not sure if there is a no-coding method of doing it. But I would write a C# program that adds data to the Word template from your sources (Jira, other programs, Excel). And would create a template that generated charts from inserted data.
For Word document generation I would have a look here -http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/20287/Generating-Word-Reports-Documents
For chart creation in the document I would have a look here - http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/create-a-chart-in-a-document-HP005190046.aspx
Easiest if you convert your JIRA chart to an image first. When you say JIRA chart, do you mean something from this plugin?
Once you have an image, your document generation tool ought to be able to include that.
There are many document generation tools which can include programmatically generated data, and some of those can include Excel charts.
There is now a JIRA plugin to generate charts in Word documents which may help you.
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.clariostechnology.officecharts.officecharts
There is now also Intelligent Reporter for JIRA which is a no-code method for creating word documents from your JIRA data, including native Word charts with full formatting from JIRA data.
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.clariostechnology.intelligentreports
Disclaimer: I work for the company that created this plugin. If there is anything you need that it cannot do, please let me know.
I need to migrate Work Items from one TFS server to another TFS server. I tried migrating them using the TFSMigration tool available in CodePlex.
The problem I am encountering is the schema for the work item on the source TFS is different from the schema of the work item type on destination. I don't want the destination TFS server schema for the work item to be modified. The change in schema is one new column only, but still don't want to take that change.
In one blog it was said that we can do that using Excel but not much details were available. I am not sure we can even use Excel to migrate the entire history related to Excel.
Have a look at the TFS Integration Tools on VS gallery. This supports custom field mappings as part of a migration, documentation here (direct download).
I did this a while back and, not finding an appropriate tool, resorted to copying the title and description etc across manually, as we only had a few active work items at the time, so it only took about an hour.
however, if I need to do it again, I'll use the TFS API to read fields of interest and write them to the new database. that way any schema differences don't matter, and the process is automated but under your control. Search for studying work items with the TFS API for details - it's really very easy.
Of course with both of these approaches (and all the migration tools AFAIK) you will only get a snapshot of the data - all history will be lost (or at best you can query using AsOf to get historical data, but all the entries you make will be timestamped at the moment you write them, not with the historical time that the event originally occurred.)
You can use the Excel editor to edit the source query All Items "Open Query in Microsoft Excel". Then open the destination query All Items "Open Query in Microsoft Excel". Copy and paste the contents from one excel window to the other. Certain fields like attachments will not transfer.
I am using Data Architect and want to export data of a table with memo fields.
If I export to CSV, everything works fine.
When I export to Excel (2003), the memo content is truncated and formatted with funny squares which is typical of a unicode encoding/decoding problem.
Ex : original string : "ABCD"
When exported to Excel : "A_B_" where the underscore is a square
I have looked into the devzone newsgroup but have not found any reference to this issue.
As an alternative you could try to use some ODBC to Excel converter tool.
Writing a small program that exports data using ADS and OLE should be rather easy, too.
I'm an Advantage support rep and we saw your message from the feedback.advantagedatabase.com site.
I confirmed the behavior you've seen and am reporting it as a possible bug. In the meantime we did add the ability to directly copy the table and paste it into excel (e.g. select all of the data and then right click > copy records - this method allowed me to paste into an excel table without issue). This feature is in ARC version 10.x.
Also, as noted you can also access the data using ODBC or OLE DB. You can download these drivers from http://devzone.advantagedatabase.com/ under the "Product Download" section.
If you'd like further help or more detailed tracking of this you can open up a support ticket by calling 1-800-SYBASE5 (792.2735)
Regards
Josh