I want to get the value on each cell in Data Table after running query on SQL Server, but the Test Builder can't capture the value of the cell, or the table. Is there any extension for this purpose?
Thanks,
Lan
I am confused as to why you want to do this, it would be very very inefficient to test database queries using Code UI. You would be much better off writing a unit test to check values returned by a query.
If for some reason you can't write unit tests or are some how testing the actual data table in SQL server. You can probable get the values from the data table by click inside a cell and then doing a search for an edit box or label and get the value from that and then use sendkeys to navigate the data table.
You can usually get the search properties for the editbox by using Windows Key + I in UITest Builder. Also note that the editbox will likely only be visible to Coded UI when it is focused (thus the click) and that the click into the grid is going to be to a particular point within the control and might be sensitive to changes in screen resolution.
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So, I want to create one Excel file each for every manager with only one single sheet and place it on OneDrive.
In order to get the data in one place, I am creating another excel file called combined.xlsx.
Now, I can export each workbook to a tab using Data -> Get Data -> From File -> From Workbook .
This is great so far. So, I can read data of 10 excelfiles on 10 sheets in combined.xlsx.
Now, I want to modify contents of one of the tabs and make sure it is reflected to the original file. How can I do this?
To elaborate on why it is not possible, you need to understand how Power Query deals with data:
You load your data into Power Query via the "Data" tab. The source can be anything Microsoft allows.
You then manipulate the data any which way in Power Query.
As a last step, you decide if and where to load the results. If you only want to create a connection to the query, you select "Close and Load to", which appears after you click on the arrow next to "Close and Load", and you pick that. Otherwise, the only other options are loading the query results to a table, PivotTable report, PivotChart.
Because the output sheets you have are connected to the query that produced them, any time you refresh the query, whatever manual changes you have made in the table that the query created originally will be wiped out and overwritten with the refreshed data.
If you were able to write back to the source here, you'd in effect
create a circular reference.
Check out this article about having Power Query output your data after manipulating it, maybe it helps.
I am trying to Get & Transform data from a web API.
When I go to the URL through a browser I can view the data.
I copy the URL. Open Excel 365, click get data ...from web and paste the URL.
It looks like Excel is recognizing that it is a Json, because power query has Json.Document.....
However, it is not letting me view the actual data, each line only has "Record"
When I try Close & Load it loads [Record] into the rows in column A.
Any ideas on what is going on?
Kind Regards,
Dom
That's typically how data gets loaded in Power Query. Record's or Lists can be expanded to get the data inside them.
There are 2 things that you will want to based on what you want.
Click on any one record to see the data in just that one Record
Click on the Expand button on the column header to see data of all the Records in their respective rows. Please check out this answer
If you're not able to figure it out, please post an image.
We are using a access front end that is being developed externally. It displays a form that contains numerous points of data and a few subforms.
I am trying to code a excel sheet that would pull data from various places in the currently open form.
I have gotten as far as to be able to access all the points of data in the main form and the first line in the subforms using the following code (In this example, the "pnum", is the left most field displayed in the subform):
Set objacc = GetObject("xxxxx\Database.accdb").Application
Debug.Print objacc.Forms("mainform").Controls("main subform").Controls("Pnumber")
This works and gets me the value of the very first element named "Pnumber" in the main subform.
However, the way the subform is formulated, it can have anywhere between 1 and 30+ "Pnumber" fields.
I need a way to pull everything that the currently visible (filtered down) subform contains regardless of how many lines there are.
Thanks!
If I were the developer of that Access application, and you asked me for this feature, I would code an API for you to automate getting the right data.
One approach I can think of in this particular case would be to populate some temporary tables, on request from Excel VBA, and have Excel use the Access database file as an external source of data. Or Access could be coded to push the right data into the open Excel worksheet.
The way you would get access to the data in its current state in the form (filtered, sorted, etc.) would probably be best through the RecordsetClone property of that (sub)form. At least that's what I imagine I would use to implement that feature.
Excel 2007: I get my data from Access tables the Excel sheet is called "Data". My Excel report cells are populated by linking to those data cells(=Data!A1) and some report cells have simple code. But my question is this; my report needs to specify one record. Example: Data record 1: Name=Joe, Birth=7/29/62, Country=USA: record 2: Name=Sam, Birth=4/13/74, Country=China... How do we control the report display to a specific record? If I add a DropDown or ListBox, how do we make only the records for the name picked show in the report. Is there a way to put the code behind the listbox, or should I scrap the list and create a macro, what is the best way for a user to pick the data to be displayed on the report? Suggestions please...
There are two approaches I would use.
When you embed a query object in Excel (which is, I assume, how you are fetching the data from Access) you have the ability to edit that query in the little Query Editor tool.
You can add criteria to that query in this tool - there's a filter icon, you select let's say the Name column, and then type "Sam" in the box below, and that will produce a SQL statement that now includes "Where Name = 'Same'" at the end.
However, that's not that helpful for reporting, since most likely we want the name to be a parameter passed in from the Excel sheet itself. If in the criteria box, you type "[enter name]" instead of "Sam", the square brackets tell the Query tool that this is a user supplied parameter. When you run the query from the tool now you get a pop up box asking you each time for the name.
Now when you exit the query tool and return to Excel, you can edit the Query Parameters for that embedded query object. The parameter you made (name) is there, and it can either take on a static value, prompt the user, or take the contents of a cell. You can even set a flag to refresh the query when the cell contents change.
The other approach goes a little further and manipulates the query object in some VBA code. If you need to do some heavier lifting, or other logic, for example, and you don't want to deal with writing it all out as spreadsheet formulas. An easy way to do that is to drop in a button on the report sheet and have the VBA code start on that button's click event.
I was working on project for my company. The requirements are to create an excel report at the end.
The way I am currently coding/thinking.
Remote Server ---> Local Access table --> give user a UI to filter data however they want --> Export to excel.
However, one of my analysts asked me if we can stay away from access and use Excel only. So I was wondering, is there a way to create a "table" like access table in Excel? This way, when I import data from remote server, I can put it in a table (IN EXCEL), create a form for UI, and have everything contained in one file.
I can't paste the raw data into a sheet because of performance issues (however, I have not tried it. I just assume that it is a lot faster to query a 'real' table then to search through excel cells).
Can you think of a alternate solution?
One option is to use Microsoft Query to directly access the remote database. In this case, the users would need to use the UI of MS Query (which isn't the prettiest) for filtering, but it would get the job done without needing the intermediate database.
Here is a good reference from the Microsoft site.