I am making a script that will log you in to your Facebook account without having to go on the go internet and enter it yourself. I want to add an option to save your login information. I need to be able to write the data to a file and to put that data back into a variable. Here is what I have so far:
On Error Resume Next
set ie = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
sub loading
do while ie.busy
wscript.sleep 350
loop
end sub
username=inputbox("Please Enter Your Facebook Username/Email:","Facebook LogIn")
password=inputbox("Please Enter Your Facebook Password:","Facebook LogIn")
ie.left=0
ie.top=0
ie.toolbar=0
ie.statusbar=0
ie.height=135
ie.width=1020
ie.resizable=0
ie.navigate"https://www.facebook.com/"
call loading
ie.document.all.item("email").value=(username)
ie.document.all.item("pass").value=(password)
ie.Document.All.Item("login_form").Submit
call loading
ie.width=1200
ie.height=700
ie.resizable=true
ie.visible=true
To write to a file:
Dim fso : Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Dim file : Set file = fso.OpenTextFile("C:\temp\myfile.txt", 2, True)
file.Write "some text"
file.Close
To read file content into a var:
Dim fso : Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Dim file : Set file = fso.OpenTextFile("C:\temp\myfile.txt", 1, False)
myvar = file.ReadAll
file.Close
It goes without saying that you'll have to modify this - you don't necessarily want to read the whole file content into your variable. But that's the basics.
Related
I get the error mentioned in the title every time I try to run my VBA code. Error is appearing on this line:
Set Button_Top_Result = IE.document.getElementById_
("javascript:gx.evt.execEvt('EUSRACNAM.CLICK.0001',this);").href
Also did some research online and find this alternative code and tried it as well.
For Each ele In IE.document.getElementsByTagName("a")
If InStr(ele.href, "javascript:gx.evt.execEvt('EUSRACNAM.CLICK.0001',this);") > 0 Then IE.navigate_
ele.href: Exit For
Next
This line worked once, and now no longer works.
VBA Novice here, so this might be a simple solution but I am stumped - working on navigating through the company website and wrote line to click on hyperlink to navigate me to this next page. It worked the first time, and then won't work and spits out the above error. Really stumped here, already did some digging online and can't figure out where my error is.
Here is the html part of the web page
https://i.stack.imgur.com/kgJOo.png
'''Option Explicit
Sub GetMasterDetailKeyedDataTest2()
'The goal of this macro is to quickly and conveniently update BNA Depreciation by automating the steps necessary to complete the process.
'Dimensions identfy things I will define later to use.
Dim name As String
Dim IE As InternetExplorerMedium
Dim store As String
Dim client As String
Dim URL As String
Dim username
Dim Password
Dim Button_Next
Dim Button_Login
Dim Button_OnDemandReporting
Dim Search_Bar
Dim Button_Mag_Glass
Dim Button_Top_Result As Action
'Line below bypasses login if user is already logged in
'On Error Resume Next
store = Workbooks("Learning").Sheets("Sheet1").Range("A2")
client = Workbooks("Learning").Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B2")
'Abbreviates Internet Explorer. Note I need the correct references enabled in tools in order to run a web query using this name.
Set IE = New InternetExplorerMedium
'Define URL
URL = "Company website"
'make IE browser visible (False would allow IE to run in the background)
'Once program is working I will want to turn this off so that the user doesn't see the webbrowser.
IE.Visible = True
'Navigate to Login page
IE.navigate URL
'This loop prevents Excel from continuing the code
Do While IE.Busy Or IE.readyState <> 4
DoEvents
Loop
'These next four steps navigate through the login
Set username = IE.document.getElementById("username") 'id of the username control (HTML Control)
username.Value = "username"
Set Button_Next = IE.document.getElementById("next") 'id of the button control (HTML Control)
Button_Next.Click
Set Password = IE.document.getElementById("password") 'id of the password control (HTML Control)
Password.Value = "password"
Set Button_Login = IE.document.getElementById("submit") 'id of the button control (HTML Control)
Button_Login.Click
Do While IE.Busy Or IE.readyState <> 4
DoEvents
Loop
'Connects to OnDemand Reporting
Set Button_OnDemandReporting = IE.document.getElementById("IMAGE1_0004")
Button_OnDemandReporting.Click
Do While IE.Busy Or IE.readyState <> 4
DoEvents
Loop
Set Search_Bar = IE.document.getElementById("vNAME")
Search_Bar.Value = Workbooks("Learning").Sheets("Sheet1").Range("B2")
Set Button_Mag_Glass = IE.document.getElementById("IMAGE1")
Button_Mag_Glass.Click
Set Button_Top_Result = IE.document.getElementById("javascript:gx.evt.execEvt('EUSRACNAM.CLICK.0001',this);").href
Button_Top_Result.Click
End Sub
'''
I expect the last step to navigate me to the next part of the web page, but instead I keep getting the above error.
The project I'm working on imports images from a blob in a MySQL database. Sometimes these images are rotated 90 degrees and the user needs to manually rotate them to the correct orientation.
So my question is, is anyone aware of a function that extract exif data from a shape in Excel using vba? I'm trying to avoid any third party applications to do this.
I eventually turned something up in the bowels of social.msdn.microsoft.com.
Here is the solution. Microsoft Shell Controls and Automation reference required. Credit to OssieMac on social.msdn.microsoft.com. Link to page of post
Pointing it at a shape doesn't seem to work (gives me an error), but I save my mysql blob to a temp file on the pc anyway so this works out for me anyway.
Sub ListMetadata()
Dim fileFolder As String
Dim fileName As String
Dim objShell As Shell32.Shell
Dim objFolder As Shell32.Folder
Dim objItem As Shell32.FolderItem
Dim i As Long
'Edit following line to your path. (Note NO back slash on end.)
fileFolder = ThisWorkbook.Path & "\Picture Test"
'Can insert path like following if you prefer.
'fileFolder = "C:\Users\OssieMac\Documents\Excel\Test Macros\Picture Test"
'Edit following line to your file name
fileName = "DSC00093.JPG"
Set objShell = New Shell
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace(fileFolder)
Set objItem = objFolder.ParseName(fileName)
With objFolder
For i = 1 To 1000
Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(i, "A") = .GetDetailsOf(objItem.Name, i)
Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(i, "B") = .GetDetailsOf(objItem, i)
Next i
End With
Set objItem = Nothing
Set objFolder = Nothing
Set objShell = Nothing
End Sub
I'm writing a script where I wish to write an HTML doc to a string from sharepoint.
Dim Content As String
Dim strShare As String: strShare = "\\link\to\share.html"
Dim iFile As Integer: iFile = FreeFile
Open strShare For Input As #iFile
Content = Input(LOF(iFile), iFile)
Close #iFile
However, I find I get a "path/file access error" every time I run the script for the first time upon boot. Once I visit "\link\to\share.html" in IE for the first time, the path begins to resolve in the VBA script.
My only thought is that IE is performing some sort of "DNS Cache" that VBA can't do. Currently my workaround is to catch the error and force the URL to open in IE the first time the script is run. After that, every other HTML file under that share loads fine.
As a test, I tried switching between from what I understand is http:// formatting (forward slash) and WebDAV formatting (\\ formating), and only the backslash separated paths ever work. I also tried to resolve the share to an IP and try it that way, but that never worked.
My last thought is to try mapping the share to a drive letter name and then specifically accessing the share with G:\link\to\mapped\share.html. But I don't see this as an elegant solution, and wonder if it will receive the same error any way.
Is there something blatant that I do not understand about WebDAV, Windows file handling, and VBA file inputs? There's something weird going on under the hood with resolving that shared domain, and I can't seem to debug it.
See if this helps here and an example below that I used.
2 things though: I only worked with Excel files on Sharepoint and I was already logged in there.
Dim oFSO As Object
'Dim oFolder As Object 'if needed
'Dim oFile As Object 'if needed
Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set oFolder = oFSO.GetFolder("\\sharepoint.site.com#SSL\DavWWWRoot\sites\")
'For Each oFolder In oFolder.SubFolders 'loops through folders
' For Each oFile In oFolder.Files 'loops through files
' 'do stuff
' Next oFile
'Next oFolder
I'm a bit confused about what you want to do. Do you want to check out files from SP and check files back into SP?
Sub testing()
Dim docCheckOut As String
'docCheckOut = "//office.bt.com/sites/Training/Design Admin/Training Plan/adamsmacro.xlsm"
docCheckOut = "http://your_path_here/ExcelList.xlsb"
Call UseCheckOut(docCheckOut)
End Sub
Sub UseCheckOut(docCheckOut As String)
' Determine if workbook can be checked out.
If Workbooks.CanCheckOut(docCheckOut) = True Then
Workbooks.CheckOut docCheckOut
Else
MsgBox "Unable to check out this document at this time."
End If
End Sub
Or...do you want to list files in a SP folder?
Sub ListFiles()
Dim folder As Variant
Dim f As File
Dim fs As New FileSystemObject
Dim RowCtr As Integer
Dim FPath As String
Dim wb As Workbook
RowCtr = 1
FPath = "http://excel-pc:43231/Shared Documents"
For Each f In FPath
'Set folder = fs.GetFolder("C:\Users\Excel\Desktop\Ryan_Folder")
'For Each f In folder.Files
Cells(RowCtr, 1).Value = f.Name
RowCtr = RowCtr + 1
Next f
End Sub
Sub test()
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder("C:\Users\Excel\Desktop\Ryan_Folder")
'Set colSubfolders = objFolder.SubFolders
'For Each objSubfolder In colSubfolders
Cells(RowCtr, 1).Value = f.Name
RowCtr = RowCtr + 1
'Next
End Sub
Apologies in advance for the length of this post, but I wanted to describe my issues in detail in the hopes one of you VBA masters can assist
Goal
Loop through all PDFs in a folder
For each PDF:select all/copy/paste into Excel
Call a separate macro to convert the pasted data into something
legible.
Background
The below sub [CopyPDFtoExcel()] worked yesterday but is now failing on the ActiveSheet.Paste line with the
"Runtime error '1004' Paste method of Worksheet class failed".
If I step though (via F8), it appears to NOT be actually opening the PDF, and therefor is unable to select all/copy/paste, producing the Runtime error. However, I do not get an error dialog, which I would think I would get (from the Debug.Assert False) if it can't find the file.
My fName's are defined as variable via a named range called path2008. These file paths were derived by running PullFilePathsforPDFs(), which spits out the full file path for each PDF in my folder. Then, I have selected those file paths and given it a name, in this case path2008, which is for 13 different PDFs. NOTE: There are actually 250+ PDFs in this folder but I selected a subset for testing, hence the 13 associated with path2008.
What I have done so far
Tested the file path for each PDF in the path2008 range by using the
(cumbersome non-looping) ActiveWorkbook.FollowHyperlink method,
which successfully opens all the PDFs. So, I'm pretty confident the
file paths are correct.
'ActiveWorkbook.FollowHyperlink "file path here"
Stripped out the select all/copy/paste VBA code, leaving just the
loop [See the sub TroubleshootingOpeningPDFLoop()]. When I step
through the FIRST time the yellow line goes from the Set oPDDoc =
oAVDoc.GetPDDoc line to the End If....presumabley meaning it found a
file during the first loop (though I do not see the PDF open). On
the SECOND (and all subsequent loops) it goes to Else then
Debug.Assert False (but no error dialog appears).
Restarted Excel and Acrobat, same issue
Restarted computer, same issue
Recreated a new workbook, same issue
Main code
Sub CopyPDFtoExcel()
Dim fName As Variant
Dim wbPayroll As Excel.Workbook
Dim wsConvert As Excel.Worksheet
Dim oPDFApp As AcroApp
Dim oAVDoc As AcroAVDoc
Dim oPDDoc As AcroPDDoc
Set wbPayroll = Workbooks("Payroll.xlsm")
Set wsConvert= wbPayroll.Sheets("Convert")
Set oPDFApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App")
Set oAVDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.AVDoc")
Set oPDDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
'Open the PDF file. The AcroAVDoc.Open function returns a true/false
For Each fName In Range("path2008")
If oAVDoc.Open(fName.Text, "") = True Then
Set oPDDoc = oAVDoc.GetPDDoc
Else
Debug.Assert False
End If
'Copy all using Acrobat menu
oPDFApp.MenuItemExecute ("SelectAll")
oPDFApp.MenuItemExecute ("Copy")
'Paste into Convert sheet
wbPayroll.Activate
wsConvert.Cells(1, 1).Select
ActiveSheet.Paste 'It worked yesterday, but now error on this line with below error
'Runtime error '1004' Paste method of Worksheet class failed
oAVDoc.Close (1) '(1)=Do not save changes
'oPDDoc.Close
Call ConversionMacro
Next
'Clean up
Set wbTransfer = Nothing
Set wsNew = Nothing
Set oPDFApp = Nothing
Set oAVDoc = Nothing
Set oPDDoc = Nothing
End Sub
My effort to isolate the PDF open failure problem
Sub TroubleshootingOpeningPDFLoop()
Dim fName As Variant
Dim wbPayroll As Excel.Workbook
Dim wsConvert As Excel.Worksheet
Dim oPDFApp As AcroApp
Dim oAVDoc As AcroAVDoc
Dim oPDDoc As AcroPDDoc
'Define your spreadsheet
Set wbPayroll = Workbooks("Payroll.xlsm")
Set wsConvert= wbPayroll.Sheets("Convert")
'Instantiate Acrobat Objects
Set oPDFApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App")
Set oAVDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.AVDoc")
Set oPDDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc")
'Open the PDF file. The AcroAVDoc.Open function returns a true/false
For Each fName In Range("path2008")
If oAVDoc.Open(fName.Text, "") = True Then
Set oPDDoc = oAVDoc.GetPDDoc
Else
Debug.Assert False
End If
Next
End Sub
Sub used to pull the file paths
Sub PullFilePathsforPDFs()
Dim objFSO As Object
Dim objFolder As Object
Dim objFile As Object
Dim i As Long
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Get the folder object
Set objFolder = objFSO.GetFolder("D:\Stuff\MoreStuff") 'all PDFs I need are stored here
i = 1
For Each objFile In objFolder.Files
Cells(i + 1, 1) = objFile.Name
Cells(i + 1, 2) = objFile.Path
i = i + 1
Next objFile
End Sub
I am having cut/copy - paste troubles lately (runtime error 1004)
Using the latest Excel but also working on "ancient" applications.
What did the trick for me was working with the original "given" name
(Sheet1,Sheet2 etc. As soon as I added/renamed the same sheets, the runtime errors came back.
If you want to make sure to generate an error when the opening operation does not succeed, I would add the following at the end of TroubleshootingOpeningPDFLoop:
If oPDDoc is nothing then
Debug.Assert False
End If
If this doesn't return an error, that means that the file is open in the application, but that it is not visible. It could be caused by the fact that you are using a PDDoc instead of an AVDoc. So, switching the 2 might allow you to see it when debugging.
As of your main problem, it might be due to the fact that Acrobat does not process the commands fast enough and you need to include some waiting time in your code to let Acrobat enough time to process the command. For example, you could have:
'Copy all using Acrobat menu
oPDFApp.MenuItemExecute ("SelectAll")
Application.Wait TimeSerial(Hour(Now()), Minute(Now()), Second(Now()) + 1)
oPDFApp.MenuItemExecute ("Copy")
Which will make VBA wait one second before running the next command.
I'm trying to get the first file of a directory. I don't care that "first" is not well defined in this case, and I don't care if I'll get a different file each time I call my sub.
I try to use:
Dim FSO As Object
Dim SourceFolder As Object
Dim FileItem As Object
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set SourceFolder = FSO.GetFolder(SourceFolderName)
Set FileItem = SourceFolder.Files.Item(0)
but this returns a compiler error ("Invalid procedure call or argument")
Could you please tell me how to make this work?
Thanks,
Li
You may use the bulit in Dir function
Below is the sample code which returns the first file found name from Test folder.
Sub test()
Dim strFile As String
strFile = Dir("D:Test\", vbNormal)
End Sub
It looks to me like SourceFolder.Files will only accept a string as the key, just like you noted with Scripting.Folders. I think Santosh's answer is the way to go, but here's a kludgy modification of your code that returns the "first" file in the folder:
Sub test()
Dim FSO As Object
Dim SourceFolder As Object
Dim FileItem As Object
Dim FileItemToUse As Object
Dim SourceFolderName As String
Dim i As Long
SourceFolderName = "C:\Users\dglancy\Documents\temp"
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set SourceFolder = FSO.GetFolder(SourceFolderName)
For Each FileItem In SourceFolder.Files
If i = 0 Then
Set FileItemToUse = FileItem
Exit For
End If
Next FileItem
Debug.Print FileItemToUse.Name
End Sub
It’s true that VBA has a limitation (a bug or design flaw in my opinion) in which a file system object's Files collection cannot be accessed by item-index number, only by each item’s file-path string value. The original question posted here is about accessing only the first item in the Files collection but it touches on a general problem for which there are two reasonable workarounds: creation and use of either a File object meta-collection or a File object array to provide indexed access to a Files collection. Here’s a demo routine:
Sub DemoIndexedFileAccess()
'
'Demonstrates use of both a File object meta-collection and a File object array to provide indexed access
'to a Folder object's Files collection.
'
'Note that, in both examples, the File objects being accessed refer to the same File objects as those in
'the Folder object's Files collection. (i.e. if one of the physical files gets renamed after the creation
'of the Folder object's Files collection, all three sets of File objects will refer to the same, renamed
'file.)
'
'IMPORTANT: This technique requires a reference to "Microsoft Scripting Runtime" be set.
'
'**********************************************************************************************************
'File-selector dialog contsants for msoFileDialogFilePicker and msoFileDialogOpen:
Const fsdCancel As Integer = 0 'File dialog Cancel button
Const fsdAction As Integer = -1 'File dialog Action button, and its aliases...
Const fsdOpen As Integer = fsdAction
Const fsdSaveAs As Integer = fsdAction
Const fsdOK As Integer = fsdAction
Dim FD As FileDialog
Dim File As Scripting.File
Dim FileArr() As Scripting.File
Dim FileColl As New Collection
Dim Folder As Scripting.Folder
Dim FSO As Scripting.FileSystemObject
Dim Idx As Integer
'Get a folder specification from which files are to be processed
Set FD = Application.FileDialog(msoFileDialogFolderPicker) 'Create the FolderPicker dialog object
With FD
.Title = "Select Folder Of Files To Be Processed"
.InitialFileName = CurDir
If .Show <> fsdOK Then Exit Sub
End With
'Use the folder specification to create a Folder object.
Set FSO = New Scripting.FileSystemObject
Set Folder = FSO.GetFolder(FD.SelectedItems(1))
'A Folder object's Files collection can't be accessed by item-index number (only by each item's file-path
'string value), so either...
'1. Create a generic "meta-collection" that replicates the Files collection's File objects, which allows
' access by collection-item index:
For Each File In Folder.Files
FileColl.Add File
Next File
'"Process" the files in (collection) index order
For Idx = 1 To FileColl.Count
Debug.Print "Meta-Collection: " & FileColl(Idx).Name
Next Idx
'2. Or, create an array of File objects that refer to the Files collection's File objects, which allows
' access by array index:
ReDim FileArr(1 To Folder.Files.Count)
Idx = 1
For Each File In Folder.Files
Set FileArr(Idx) = File
Idx = Idx + 1
Next File
'"Process" the files in (array) index order
For Idx = LBound(FileArr) To UBound(FileArr)
Debug.Print "File Object Array: " & FileArr(Idx).Name
Next Idx
End Sub
I solve the problem in this Way:
Private Function GetFirstFile(StrDrive as String) As String
'Var Declarations
Dim Fso As Object, Drive As Object, F As File
'Create a reference to File System Object and Drive
Set Fso = New Scripting.FileSystemObject
Set Drive = Fso.GetDrive(StrDrive)
If Not Drive Is Nothing Then
'Scan files in RootFolder.files property of then drive object
For Each F In Drive.RootFolder.Files
Exit For
Next
'if there are any file, return the first an get then name
If Not F Is Nothing Then FirstFile = F.Name: Set F = Nothing
Set Drive = Nothing
End If
Set Fso = Nothing
End Function
Don´t forget add Reference to Microsoft Scripting Runtime in your project
It works to me... I hope this Help you guys.
Why don't you just use a function to iterate through the files in the folder until you get to the one that you want? Assuming you're using the fso as detailed in other posts above, just pass the Folder, and the Index of the file you want, it could be #1 or any other file in the folder.
Function GetFile(oFolder As Folder, Index As Long) As File
Dim Count As Long
Dim oFile As File
Count = 0
For Each oFile In oFolder.Files
Count = Count + 1
If Count = Index Then
Set GetFile = oFile
Exit Function
End If
Next oFile
End Function