I need to be able to use Tableau to search for a term e.g. "xyz123" across all the columns within multiple Excel files where the names and numbers of the columns aren't fixed, so it just has to dynamically filter on whatever is in the Excel file.
Does Tableau have a function that could do this?
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Is there a way to move imported columns after calculated columns? I know I can create a new table by using Selectcolumns, but that'll just balloon the size of the PowerBI data file. Seems like such a miss on Microsoft's part
No there is no way to. I would avoid calculated columns and instead create the additional columns in Power Query which will eliminate your problem anyway.
Simply start all calculated columns with an underscore (judging by your username, you seem to be fond of unnecessary underscores)
Another option would be to put imported and calculated columns into different Display folders (such a miss on user's part)
I am trying to extract tables from pdf files. I am using UiPath's Document Understanding for this purpose. I have to create a template for this purpose and then use that template for other similar invoices. The issue I am facing is that the number of items in the table is varying. For example some pdf's have table which contain 4 items whereas other pdf files have table which contain only 1 item. So if I create a template using the pdf which has a table containing 4 items then it works. But then the same template when used for files which have table containing 1 item then it does not properly extract the data in the table. Is there any solution for this?
The solution should be able to extract tables from similar invoices containing varying number of items in the table. The format and layout of the invoice and the table is similar. The only thing varying is the number of items in each table.
Thanks for your time and help!
I have 3 sheets which contain 3 products and I need to sum the number of products in different sheets together. However, the number of sheets is not fixed. So how can I do an automated UIPATH process which will help me add the sum based on products depending on how much sheet is present in the excel folder?
I assume that all the worksheets have the same schema, so you could open your file Excel and read every time all the worksheets contained with "Get Workbook Sheets". Then read the range of every worksheet and merge these into one data table. Finally, you can find the sum of the products with LINQ or another query from the data table.
Something like this:
For example, LINQ query:
dt.AsEnumerable.Where(Function(x) x("colName").Equals("products")).Sum(Function(x) Decimal.Parse(x("colName").ToString))
Regards, Gio
I have 3 different datasets. Each pulls from the same datasource, but each has different filters in order to pull data as of a different points in time (12/31/15, 12/31/14, and 12/31/13). Each dataset contains the fields: enum, gender, and YearEnd (YearEnd I created using an expression). Can I combine the data from all 3 datasets into one table or matrix. My ultimate goal is to create a chart to show trends over time, but I can't figure out how to combine the data. Since I have different filters for each, I believe I have to have 3 datasets. I just can't figure out how to append them all into one. Thoughts?
I believe your best bet would be one combined dataset instead of three. Create a dataset that gets you the data for all three dates.
You can filter for the rows you want (date in ('12/31/15', '12/31/14', '12/31/15')) in either your SQL query/stored procedure or in your dataset options (right click dataset, properties, filters).
You can also filter at the table level (right click the outside border of the table, tablix properties).
You can break up your table to show different dates using column and row groups, as defined with group expressions, and use expressions as well to display custom headers (2015, 2014, 2013)
I haven't done much with charts in Report Builder, but from looking at it it looks like you can use filters and groups much the same way.
I have two datasets in my birt report :
Lesson (date)
Student (name)
and I would like to know how to create a cross table using the date (red) as the column names and name (blue) as the row names as shown below :
The cells will stay empty.
I have try to use the Cross Tab but it seems that I can only use one dataset.
For information I am stuck with the version 2.5.2. I say this in case someone writes about a practical functionality available in the later version of birt... :-)
Where both datasets are coming from the same relational data source, the simplest way to achieve this would normally be:
Replace the existing two datasets with a single dataset, in which the two original datasets are cross-joined to each other;
create a crosstab from the new dataset, with the new dataset columns as the data cube groups.