The title says it all.
The 'why would you want to do that" is simple. My team all edit a shared csv file and I use it as input for my dashboard. It's crude but it works and more importantly it respects the way people work. Nobody has to learn new software etc.
I currently display the data I need on static pages but increasingly, I'm thinking the dataset I'm using would map really nicely to to a blog structure.
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I'm posting as a new learner to java. Currently now i'm in the process of learning reading and writing to files and also sorting and displaying specific information from files.
I hope someone can help me understand what im doing wrong. i have too much code to post here so i uploaded it to github. https://github.com/PearseMorris/AstronautList.git
If you look at the StartApp.java it contains the main method, Astronaut.java is OOP getters and setters etc. and there is astronauts.csv. the file that i need to pull information from.
I want to be able to specifically pull names from the csv file if they are from a specific country. so in my case (Case 2 switch statement/StartApp.java), i want to beable to display all astronaut names that are from the 'USA'. I've already wrote a few methods at the bottom of StartApp.java thats suppose to sort and store those names in an array. and then on case 2 they display those names. if that makes sense.
This forum is my last resort as i am not getting replies from my teachers. But any and all help is really appreciated!
I'm looking to extract all images from new and legacy Word documents and spreadsheets to assist in a real time document classification system, and looking at the documentation, I seem to have run into a problem. I'm having no problems finding documentation within the hwpf module and packages for extracting images from the file, but when it comes to the other 3, it seems as though they don't support the same methods.
What I want to do is to have one block of code that is document type agnostic when it comes to the 4 above mentioned types, I just want fast, easy access to the pictures in the files so I can move on to my next task, but at this point it looks like only the hwpf module supports extraction of pictures or the methods in 'PicturesTable'.
I'm also somewhat concerned about the performance of the library: it looks like it loads the entire file when all I want to do is scrape the images out of it. Any suggestions on a library that operates directly on the 'Data' bytestream and the folder structure of the .***x zip files?
I've already tried using OLEtools to try to extract pictures from the streams, and I'm now moving on to this tool. I havn't tried any tools that operate on the lower levels of the documents yet though.
I have created a certificate design with powerpoint.
Now I have to create 100+ copies of it... each with a different name (the recipent).
I was wondering if there was an easy way to do it...
I can have the list of names in excel or txt.
I am open to other ideas as well, like changing the slide into an images and batch processing it in a simple way
You may also try out SlideMight, a tool for merging hierarchical data with PowerPoint templates. SlideMight supports iteration over data, to generate slides or to populate tables. There is more functionality, but you don't seem to need that. SlideMight is in fact a coding system, like mail merge for Word is.
Input data format is at this time just JSON; you would need to convert your Excel sheets first, e.g. using this Excel to JSON add-in for Excel.
There are versions for Windows and Mac OS X.
More information is at www.SlideMight.com
Disclaimer:
I am the owner of Delftware Technology, the company that developed SlideMight.
And I am one of the developers.
This is a question that really belongs in SuperUser, not StackOverflow (which is intended for coding questions, not software how-to-use questions).
But ...
Save your names to a plain notepad TXT file, one name per line.
Start PowerPoint, choose File, Open and point to your TXT file (you may force the matter by choosing . in Files of type:
Apply whatever template you like to the result.
I have a commercial add-in that'll do this and quite a bit more, but from your description, you don't need it.
I'm brand new to programming (though I'm willing to learn), so apologies in advance for my very basic question.
The [SEC makes available all of their filings via FTP][1], and eventually, I would like to download a subset of these files in bulk. However, before creating such a script, I need to generate a list for the location of these files, which follow this format:
/edgar/data/51143/000005114313000007/0000051143-13-000007-index.htm
51143 = the company ID, and I already accessed the list of company IDs I need via FTP
000005114313000007/0000051143-13-000007 = the report ID, aka "accession number"
I'm struggling with how to figure this out as the documentation is fairly light. If I already have the 000005114313000007/0000051143-13-000007 (what the SEC calls the "accession number") then it's pretty straightforward. But I'm looking for ~45k entries and would obviously need to generate these automatically for a given CIK ID (which I already have).
Is there an automated way to achieve this?
Welcome to SO.
I'm currently scraping the same site, so I'll explain what I've done so far. What I am assuming is that you'll have the CIK numbers of the companies you're looking to scrape. If you search the company's CIK, you'll get a list of all of the files that are available for the company in question. Let's use Apple as an example (since they have a TON of files):
Link to Apple's Filings
From here you can set a search filter. The document you linked was a 10-Q, so let's use that. If you filter 10-Q, you'll have a list of all of the 10-Q documents. You'll notice that the URL changes slightly, to accommodate for the filter.
You can use Python and its web scraping libraries to take that URL and scrape all of the URLs of the documents in the table on that page. For each of these links you can scrape whatever links or information you want off the page. I personally use BeautifulSoup4, but lxml is another choice for web scraping, should you choose Python as your programming language. I would recommend using Python, as it's fairly easy to learn the basics and some intermediate programming constructs.
Past that, the project is yours. Good luck, I've posted some links below to get you started. I'm only allowed to post two links since I'm new to the site, so I'll give you the beautiful soup link:
Beautiful Soup Home Page
If you choose to use Python and are new to the language, check out the codecademy python course, and don't forget to check out lxml, as some people prefer it over BeautifulSoup (some people also use both in conjunction, so it's all a matter of personal preference).
Is there a way to easily just translate Magento default frontend through csv file, translating everything would be too time consuming and not really needed as it would make admin panel very confusing for me.
Same question was asked in Magento forums 4 years ago, but there was no easy way to do it at that time, but apparently Mangento team was contacted and they promised to look into it. So has anything changed since then?
Look into your /app/locale/en_US folder. There you have .csv's that do the translating. Everywhere you see $this->__('Checkout') or any other string, Magento hits up this folder for specific files that dictate what to replace with "Checkout" and every other string which echo's this way.
In the CSV files, the first field is the text to look for within $this->__(''), the second is what to replace it with. You'll also find different language translation files here.
Each CSV is named after the namespace it belongs to. Hence, Mage_Catalog.csv contains the translations for all the files that use the /app/code/core/Mage/Catalog/ classes and /app/design/frontend/your_package/your_theme/catalog template files.
Here, you'll also find Mage_Adminhtml.csv, which handles most of the admin translations.