I have to fix the problem in the title and after one day of research I realy don't know what else to try, what else to google ;)
The topic is discussed in an IBM TechNote.
But this answer isn't enough for me. I really need a workaround!
My question: Can I 'get between' the User clicking the 'Copy as table' and the actual copying of the table?
I see two ways of solving my problem (I don't know how to implement them):
If I just could show the user a Messagebox 'Use our own export agent' that would be great.
If I could convince Notes to just copy each document only once that would be even greater.
If I should make my question more precise, just ask. I will gladly edit it!
Every answer would be highly appreciated. Out of the box thinking, other approaches, I like to hear your opinion!
Friendly Greetings
Josi
Unfortunately there is no way to hook in and alter the results of the Copy Selected as Table method. If it is possible to show an "Export Friendly" view that is not categorized, that is one way to solve the problem.
I'm not sure how useful it will be to you, but many years ago I wrote a sample project for exporting views to Excel, and that should handle categorized views properly. There are surely other options available by now too (though I'm not familiar with them).
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I was wondering if anyone could help me to disable the Advanced Filter option in Excel 2013.
I have used the following to disable all other data ribbon options:
.Protect UserInterfaceOnly:=True
But advanced filter is still able to be selected. With this they can unfilter the data.
The following code used to work in older versions of Excel but I cannot seem to get it to work for Excel 2013:
Application.CommandBars("Worksheet Menu Bar").Controls _
("&Data").Controls("&Filter").Controls("&Advanced Filter...").Enabled = False
If anyone could help me out with this or point me in the right direction then it would be appreciated.
Thanks guys.
Solution Suggested
The approach will be hiding the button from the user interface: the advantage on this solution is that the code is not in VBA (entirely) so, is not that easy for the user to modify it (or know what is going on backstage).
Answer Explanation/Next steps
It's really a deep answer with many steps involved in it so, I'll just post guidance and some useful links, that way you may research about it first.
1. Download Custom UI Editor for Microsoft Office: this helps to modify the user interface for the document.
2. Look for tutorials; start to code there with something basic like adding a tab and a button, (this is a good one)
3. Back to Excel, look for life cycle and custom events, this is a good place to start
4. You'll need to catch the event when the Ribbon is loaded; in that time, you'd need to disable the button, these links (1,2) are useful to show the steps and some example workbooks for it.
5. Locate the ID for the button and disable it (Hint: The idMSO = AdvancedFilterDialog, if you 've followed the previous steps, it will make sense here-).
Further information/Answer Disclaimer
Excel is not a software that can handle security deeply; if you are trying to restrict the user somehow in the original file, you should try other approaches -IG: a copy of a workbook for reference only, while the master one is saved in a sharepoint only modifiable by people authorized for it-.
While FAQ in S.O is strict about referencing to other sites without using a proper reference for it, this is a deep step solution that would take pages to explain even a random example; appealing to the guiding topic, this answer should be ok.
I have built an application that opens an Excel Template from Access. Everything was working wonderfully until I introduced linked pictures in my Excel Templates.
The entire application which used to execute in a few seconds now takes close to a minute to do only such simple things as write data from Access to Excel.
The reason for this is that Excel gets stuck in CalculationStatus = Pending probably because I'm using volatile functions for my linked pictures (offset).
Microsoft is aware of this issue and has kindly documented it along with their "resolution" here... which is essentially nothing.
Does anyone else have an idea how to resolve or work around this issue? I have tried changing my template and not using linked pictures but these solutions don't work very well / are cumbersome.
UPDATE:
I have tried the various solutions that were proposed in the comments. None have worked yet. After having eliminated those options I am essentially at the point where I see that as long as the worksheet contains a linked picture, this bug rears its ugly head.
I'll leave the question open in case someone else does have a workaround.
My own solution for the time being is that I'll be writing code to update the relevant cells using VBA.
I have inherited a heavily customised - hardly documented CRM 2011 instance. There are over 80 in-house managed solutions and one of them contains a ribbon button that isn't working as desired.
What is the quickest way to find which solution contains the button?
I'm figuring that I'm going to have to export the most likely candidates unzip them and search through the files in what is looking like the most epic needle and haystack adventure of my life. I would like to avoid this brute force approach if I can.
If you already have a lot of solution, can you add one more :) in that solution you can only include your Application Ribbon component and Case entity. Fix appropriate button and import solution after 80 others.
Hope it helps.
EDIT: But if that is not an option, you can find that in database. Get record in table [RibbonDiffBase] where [RDX] column contains ID of your ribbon button. Then, when you have results, check SolutionId column. You have all solution IDs which have included definition for your ribbon button.
Next, go through [SolutionBase] table and find Name of your solution (based on SolutionID).
I still preffer my first answer, it is more elegant. But, also hope that second part of answer will be helpful.
Try using Ribbon Workbench:
http://www.develop1.net/public/page/Ribbon-Workbench-for-Dynamics-CRM-2011.aspx
You will get an error logg directly when you load each solution, hopefully sith the exact faulty ribbon button also, this is not the case always, mot often!
Good luck
I noticed that sitecore has the option of exporting users in an Excel format.
I need to have similar functionality for exporting 'participations', (a users can enlist to take part in an 'event', and if their entry is approved via a sitecore workflow, a 'participation' item is created in the content tree)
Since mostly everything in Sitecore is in essence based on items, and I want to export items to Excel, my question is - what are some of the best ways of doing this?
Questions:
Is there a way to re-use this functionality for regular items?
Would it be a good idea to create a custom admin page (any tips on doing this?) which has some custom code that reads the items from the database using the API?
are there sitecore plugins/shared source projects that can help me achieve this?
Or does anyone have a better idea? - would it be better to just store the participations in SQL? I'm mostly doing it this way because I want to make use of the 'free' functionality offers, for example workflow, but if that leads to me using anti-patterns please shoot me ;)
Link is different now: https://marketplace.sitecore.net/en/Modules/Advanced_System_Reporter.aspx
P.S. Couldn't leave a comment to original answer as I don't have enough reputation. Oh well :)
Found a most excellent shared source module which does exactly this (and much more)!
Basically it allows you to configure (and easily extend, if you need to) any kind of table based report on 'items'.
The report module shows up as an application in the sitecore menu (like the user manager tool) and comes with features such as xml,csv, xls export. It's also really easy to set up, once you get the hang of it.
http://trac.sitecore.net/AdvancedSystemReporter
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I've spent hours scouring the net for anything to do with VBA calling data from the web in excel and nothing provides a tutorial on how to do so, only complicated examples un-related to what I want to do.
I want to pull data from either a .html or .xml site, doesn't matter, via Excel and find specific points in that data. I can find specific points but don't know how to get the data or scroll through multiple lines. I've done this exact sort of thing in mIRC (sort of C code).
http://eve-central.com/home/quicklook.html?typeid=438
http://api.eve-central.com/api/quicklook?typeid=438
Those are two examples, using roughly the same data I'd like to retrieve. It'd be FAR more specific with at most 100 or so different values.
I'd like to be TAUGHT how to do it, not given the code to do it, or if you must explain each part with comments in-depth please.
Edit: I'm just saying here that I don't want you to link me some random code that does something similar and expect me to modify it without an explanation. Not wanting someone to just write up a full guide of internet capability for Excel.
Thanks
Nick
Edit: I'll try explaining it again in a different sense. I play a game called EVE Online, and there's a lot of "market" databases online that allow access in this form for programs to extract data of certain items' prices. Pretty much I want to do that in an Excel document and then obviously list them in a hidden sheet or something. I don't want to have to use a secondary program, I know it's entirely possible within just Excel.
Have a look here - How can I send an HTTP POST request to a server from Excel using VBA? and getHTTP with (excel) VBA?
That deals with the code part. A note regarding the links provided, refer to the MSDN documentation regarding the WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1 and MSXML2.ServerXMLHTTP to gain better clarity regarding what the these libraries are used for. I also suggested reading up a bit about using COM objects in VBA
I'd like to be TAUGHT how to do it,
not given the code to do it, or if you
must explain each part with comments
in-depth please.
Not to be rude, but this sounds to me like you want someone to teach you how to code. I dont think one can simply teach code.
Edit:
I misunderstood your question, correct me if I wrong, but the crux of your question revolves around I can find specific points but don't know how to get the data or scroll through multiple lines.
Using http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa163921(office.10).aspx, you would probably need to get all your result nodes into an XML object. You could then need to loop through the result set ( which I think is what you meant by scroll).
Related question: How to parse XML using vba
This is a quick and rough answer, becuase what your doing sounds a little bit dodgy(see comment), but from my understanding of Excel, I think your best bet is to use the ODBC driver and connect directly with MS Access (then export into excel) to the same database that the website is using to to receive all the data.
Which will mean that you will need:
1. both the username and password to the database.
2. the associated sql queries that the website is using to retrieve the data. (which may include joins, functions etc.)
Otherwise, you will have to get it through the "front", and you will need to write your own html parser for the section of each page to generate an xml file so that excel can read the final contents table data cleanly. (for excel 2007 and up.)
Doing so will also allow you be able to infer a column's 'data type' such as int, char, bigint etc. in the xml schema. But yeah, this might only need to be done probably in something like console C#/C++/java whatever, not in excel itself because I'm pretty sure excel doesn't have a feature that lets you write your own 'HTML to XML' parser for a website it knows nothing about.
hope this helps..
1) Copy a link to the price data you want. ie
http://api.eve-central.com/api/marketstat?typeid=34&typeid=35®ionlimit=10000002
2) In excel select the location you want the data to be imported to. Preferably a blank sheet.
3) Data -> Import External Data -> New Web Query.
4) Paste the link into the address bar. You can edit the link later on to add or subtract typeids.
5) Press the Go button.
6) Select one of the yellow arrow boxes. I chose the box directly above the line evec_api version.
7) Press the Ok button to import the data to the sheet you selected in step 2.
Now you can right click on the data to "Refresh Data".
Use whatever look up formulas to read the prices from this data to the rest of your sheet.
You can change the address of the Web Query by right clicking on any part of the data and selecting "Edit Query..."
Hope this gets you going in the right direction. This will work with Excel version 2002(XP) and 2003. Excel 2007 is more friendly to XML queries.