I'm pretty new to cognos Reports Studio,
but was wondering if there's a way to take
the results of a query, and work with them
inside of an HTML object.
Say I have a query that returns 1 record with the following:
-Genre
-Artist
-Album
-Song
and I want to fill an html object with the following:
'<%=song%> is a good example of <%=genre%> by <%=artist%>, from their album <%=album%>'
thanks in advance
I think you're trying to use ASP.net shorthand echo as the basis for your idea, and unfortunately, I don't think you can use anything like that in Cognos. The idea would be to use a data container/block, such as a list report, and create a data item inside of it. There, you could concatenate the static elements together with the data items you're retrieving from the database, for example:
[Song] || ' is a good example of ' || [Genre] || ' by ' || [Artist] || ', from their album ' || [Album]
Hope that helps.
Related
I'm trying to retrieve the value "CONGE STATUTAIRE" from the following html code
<span class="DescriptionLabel" id="lblProjectDescription">CONGE STATUTAIRE</span>
I've tried this
nom_proj = IE.Document.getElementsByClassName("DescriptionLabel")(0).innerText
The code pass this line without problem but the the value of nom_proj is " ", and I would have hope to get "CONGE STATUTAIRE" for result.
Could anyone tells me what's wrong with it? The rest of my code is working i.e. I can retrieve value by using the getelementbyID method.
Any help will be welcomed.
I would use the getElementById() method, to make sure it can return only one HTML element and not a collection of objects:
nom_proj = IE.Document.getElementById("lblProjectDescription").innerText
However, the reason why you get "" is most probably that the collection returned by getElementsByClassName() has more than one element (often, when retrieving object by class names).
Which means: in the Document of your browser there will be most probably more elements that are styled with the CSS class DescriptionLabel; for example, something like this:
<div name="emptyRow" class = "DescriptionLabel"></div>
You can test if there are more than one element by:
1) either, adding a watcher to IE.Document.getElementsByClassName("DescriptionLabel");
2) or, printing all the elements inside, I bet my hat you'll find inside more than one:
For Each obj In IE.Document.getElementsByClassName("DescriptionLabel")
Debug.Print obj.InnerText
Next obj
GENERAL SUGGESTION: if an HTML object has an id, use the getElementByID; that method returns a single object, not a collection, so even if you would be sure that the collection will contain a unique element, it would anyway be less clean and efficient in terms of coding.
I am scraping an 90K record database using JSON-RPC and I am trying to put in some basic error checking. I want to start by scraping the database twice using two different settings and adding a prefix to the second scrape. This way I can check to ensure that the two settings are not producing different records (due to dropped updates, etc). I wanted to implement the comparison using a view which compares each document from the first scrape with it's twin produced by the second scrape and then emit the names of records with a difference between them.
However, I cannot quite figure out how to pull in another doc in the view, everything I have read only discusses external docs using the emit() function, which is too late to permit me to compare it. In the example below, the lookup() function would grab the referenced document.
Is this just not possible?
function(doc) {
if(doc._id.slice(0,1)!=='$' && doc._id.slice(0,1)!== "_"){
var otherDoc = lookup('$test" + doc._id);
if(otherDoc){
var keys = doc.value.keys();
var same = true;
keys.forEach(function(key) {
if ((key.slice(0,1) !== '_') && (key.slice(0,1) !=='$') && (key!=='expires')) {
if (!Object.equal(otherDoc[key], doc[key])) {
same = false;
}
}
});
if(!same){
emit(doc._id, 1);
}
}
}
}
Context
You are correct that this is not possible in CouchDB. The whole point of the map function is that it must be idempotent, otherwise you lose all the other nice benefits of a pre-calculated index.
This is why you cannot access external resources in the map function, whether they be other records or the clock. Any time you run a map you must always get the same result if you put the same record into it. Since there are no relationships between records in CouchDB, you cannot promise that this is possible.
Solution
However, you can still achieve your end goal, just be different means. Some possibilities...
Assuming there is some meaningful numeric value in each doc, you could use a view to take the sum of all those values and group them by which import you did ({key: <batch id>, value: <meaningful number>}). Then compare the two numbers in your client or the browser to see if they match.
A brute force approach would be to use a view to pair the docs that should match. Each doc is on a different row, but they're grouped by a common field. Then iterate through the entire index comparing the pairs. This would certainly be the quickest to code and doesn't depend on your application or data.
Implement a validation function to enforce a schema on your data. Just be warned that this will reduce your write throughput since each written record will be piped out of Erlang and into the JS engine. Also, this is only applicable if you're worried about properly formed records instead of their precise content, which might not be the case.
Instead of your different batch jobs creating different docs, have them place them into the same doc. The structure might look like this: { "_id": "something meaningful", "batch_one": { ..data.. }, "batch_two": { ..data.. } } Then your validation function could compare them or you could create a view that indexes all the docs that don't match. All depends on where in your pipeline you want to do the error checking and correction.
Personally I like the last option better, but only if you don't plan to use the database as is in production. Ie., you wouldn't want to carry around all that extra data in each record.
Hope that helps.
Cheers.
As the question suggests, I need to find out how to access entity data that has been passed into a JavaScript function via a lookup.
JavaScript Code Follows:
// function to generate the correct Weighting Value when these parameters change
function TypeAffectedOrRegionAffected_OnChanged(ExecutionContext, Type, Region, Weighting, Potential) {
var type = Xrm.Page.data.entity.attributes.get(Type).getValue();
var region = Xrm.Page.data.entity.attributes.get(Region).getValue();
// if we have values for both fields
if (type != null && region != null) {
// create the weighting variable
var weighting = type[0].name.substring(4) + "-" + region;
// recreate the Weighting Value
Xrm.Page.data.entity.attributes.get(Weighting).setValue(weighting);
}
}
As you can see with the following line using the name operator I can access my Type entity's Type field.
// create the weighting variable
var weighting = type[0].name.substring(4) + "-" + region;
I am looking for a way now to access the values stored inside my type object. It has the following fields new_type, new_description, new_value and new_kind.
I guess I'm looking for something like this:
// use value of entity to assign to our form field
Xrm.Page.data.entity.attributes.get(Potential).setValue(type[0].getAttribute("new_value"));
Thanks in advance for any help.
Regards,
Comic
REST OData calls are definitely the way to go in this case. You already have the id, and you just need to retrieve some additional values. Here is a sample to get you started. The hardest part with working with Odata IMHO is creating the Request Url's. There are a couple tools, that you can find on codeplex, but my favorite, is actually to use LinqPad. Just connect to your Org Odata URL, and it'll retrieve all of your entities and allow you to write a LINQ statement that will generate the URL for you, which you can test right in the browser.
For your instance, it'll look something like this (it is case sensitive, so double check that if it doesn't work):
"OdataRestURL/TypeSet(guid'" + type[0].Id.replace(/{/gi, "").replace(/}/gi, "") + "'select=new_type,new_description,new_value,new_kind"
Replace OdataRestURL with whatever your odata rest endpoint is, and you should be all set.
Yes Guido Preite is right. You need to retrieve the entity by the id which come form the lookup by Rest Sync or Async. And then get Json object. However for make the object light which is returned, you can mention which fields to be backed as part of the Json. Now you can access those fields which you want.
I have an XPage that is doing an #DbLookup with a user's input and trying to find that value in a view in a different database yet on the same server.
I have already verified that the view is in fact sorted by the first column and therefore #DbLookup friendly. The following code below appears in the server-side Javascript OnClick event handler for a button on my XPage.
My problem is that the an error occurs when trying to assign the value of lRep to the 'firstNameLabel'. lRep is returning a null value from the dbLookup even though the a record under the 'FirstName' field exists with the key 'P301993'. This dbLookup should be finding a returning a single 'FirstName' result. However, it is not.
var resultLabel = getComponent("firstNameLabel");
var dbName = new Array(#DbName()[0],"UKCSandbox.nsf");
var lRep = #DbLookup(dbName,"customerLookup","P301993","FirstName");
resultLabel.setValue(lRep.toString());
Unless your formatting was lost in copy and paste, your code has flaws. This is not Java, this is JavaScript. Line endings matter and functions don't act on the object, but return a value. Also #DbLookup returns a string when you have exactly one match, so checking for string doesn't help you.
Your code should look like that:
var ukcNumber = Registration.getItemValueString('UKCNumber').toUpperCase();
var resultLabel = getComponent("ukcNumberLabel");
var dbName = #DbName();
dbName[1] = "UKC\\UKCSandbox.nsf";
var lRep = #DbLookup(dbName,"customerLookup",ukcNumber,1);
resultLabel.setValue((lRep) ? "Success" : "Failed");
Does that work for you?
Update: 2 things to check:
does the lookup work in the same database using #DbName?
XPages have the same security constraints as Java agents. Do you have enough rights in the server document to do a 'get value from other database'? Default is No!
Have you tried making the dblookup work outside of xpages, i.e. with ScanEZ or in the Notes client?
Check your ukcNumber variable so it contains a value.
Edit
Check so the user has rights to do the lookup in the other database.
Also try a similar code on an old Notes Form and see if you get the same result.
Why can't you use keyword '[FAILSILENT]' in your #DBLookup call. It'll return "", if no entry matches with your key.
If you still have issues, use SSJS/java code to see where it's breaking up.
Does anyone know the proper way to query azure table storage for a null value. From what I've read, it's possible (although there is a bug which prevents it on development storage). However, I keep getting the following error when I do so on the live cloud storage:
One of the request inputs is not valid.
This is a dumbed down version of the LINQ query that I've put together.
var query = from fooBar in fooBarSVC.CreateQuery<FooBar>("FooBars")
where fooBar.PartitionKey == kPartitionID
&& fooBar.Code == kfooBarCode
&& fooBar.Effective_Date <= kFooBarDate.ToUniversalTime()
&& (fooBar.Termination_Date > kFooBarDate.ToUniversalTime() || fooBar.Termination_Date == null)
select fooBar;
If I run the query without checking for null, it works fine. I know a possible solution would be to run a second query on the collection that this query brings back. I don't mind doing that if I need to, but would like to know if I can get this approach to work first.
Anyone see anything obvious I'm doing wrong?
The problem is that because azure table storage does not have a schema, the null column actually doesn't exist. This is why your query is not valid. there is no such thing as a null column in table storage. You could do something like store an empty string if you really have to. Really though the fundamental issue here is that Azure table storage really is not built to be queried by any columns other than partition key and row key. Every time you make a query on one of these non-standard columns you are doing a table scan. If you start to get lots of data you are going to have a very high rate of query time outs. I would suggest setting up a manual index for these types of queries. For example, you could store the same data in the same table but with different values for the Row key. Ultimately, if your are app is not getting crazy high usage I would just use SQL Azure as it will be much more flexible for the types of queries you are doing.
Update: Azure has a great guide on table storage design that I would recommend reading. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-table-design-guide/
I just had this problem and found a nice little ninja-trick to actually test for nulls. Although I'm using the Azure Storage interface directly, I'm 90% sure it will work for LINQ too if you do the same.
Here's what I did to check if Price (Int32?) is null:
not (Price lt 0 or Price gt 0)
I'm guessing in your case you can do the same in LINQ by testing if fooBar.Termination_Date is less or greater than DateTime.UtcNow for example. Something like this:
where fooBar.PartitionKey == kPartitionID
&& fooBar.Code == kfooBarCode
&& fooBar.Effective_Date <= kFooBarDate.ToUniversalTime()
&& (fooBar.Termination_Date > kFooBarDate.ToUniversalTime()
|| (not (fooBar.Termination_Date < DateTime.UtcNow
or fooBar.Termination_Date > DateTime.UtcNow))
select fooBar;
For a string column called MyColumn I was able to type: not(MyColumn gt '')
Mike S answer above put me on the right path.
For strings, we can compare to empty string.
IsNotBlank(value)
Can be:
(Value gt '')
Using the Azure Tables client library for .NET. to query for null Guid values.
In the sample code, the property's name is MyColumn.
var filter = Azure.Data.Tables.TableClient
.CreateQueryFilter($"not(MyColumn gt {Guid.Empty})");
The TableClient.CreateQueryFilter method will create the filter:
not(MyColumn gt guid'00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000')