How to read an excel sheet and put the cell value within different text fields through UiPath?
I have a excel sheet as follows:
I have read the excel contents and to iterate over the contents later I have stored the contents in a Output Data Table as follows:
Read Range - Output:
DataTable: CVdatatable
Output Data Table
DataTable: CVdatatable
Text: opCVdatatable
Screenshot:
Finally, I want to read the text opCVdatatable in a iteration and write them into text fields. So in the desired Input fileds I mentioned opCVdatatable or opCVdatatable+ "[k(enter)]" as required.
Screenshot:
But UiPath seems to start from the begining of the Output Data Table whenever I called for opCVdatatable.
Inshort, each desired Input fileds are iteratively getting filled up by all the data with the data stored in the Output Data Table.
Can someone help me out please?
My first recommendation is to use Workbook: Read range activity to read data from Excel because it is quicker, works in the background, and does not require excel to be installed on the system.
Start your sequence like this (note the add headers property is not checked):
You do not need to use Output Data Table because this activity outputs a string containing all row items. What you want to do instead is to access the items in the data table and output each one as a string in your type into, e.g., CVDatatable.Rows(0).Item(0).ToString, like so:
You mention you want to read the text opCVdatatable in an iteration and write them into text fields. This is a little bit more complex, but i'll give you an example. You can use a For Each Row activity and loop through each row in CVDatatable, setting the index property if required. See below:
The challenge is to get the selector correct here and make it dynamic, so that it targets a different text field per iteration. The selector for the type into activity will depend on the system you are targeting, but here is an example:
And the selector for this:
Also, here is a working XAML file for you to test.
Hope this helps.
Chris
Here's a different, more general approach. Instead of including the target in the process itself, the Excel would be modified to include parts of a selector:
Note that column B now contains an identifier, and this ID depends on the application you will be working with. For example, here's my sample app looks like. As you can see, the first text box has an id of 585, the second one is 586, and so on (note that you can work with any kind of identifier including the control's name if exposed to UiPath):
Now, instead of adding multiple Type Into elements to your workflow, you would add just a single one, loop over each of the datatable's row, and then create a dynamic selector:
In my case the selector for the Type Into activity looks as follows:
"<wnd cls='#32770' title='General' /><wnd ctrlid='" + row(1).ToString() + "' />"
This will allow you to maintain the process from the Excel sheet alone - if there's a new field that needs to be mapped, just add it to your sheet. No changes to the Workflow are required.
Related
I would like to copy data from excel and replace text in word document.
However the cell references that contain data are NOT fixed as it depends on the number of debtors and the number of table rows the user wants.
Any help would be appreciated!
You can try reading the excel data using Read Range Activity and then Lookup into that datatable for the exact values that you want to replace.
And you can use read the Word File and replace the required values in Word file from the Datatable.
Hi i have found some video and text on how to do this but they dont help with this task.
I know how to get one values but not extract a table.
I want this to get exported into a database if possible or a Excel. But i cant figure it out.
I have even tryed change the "Change reading opption"
I tryed to "data scraping" but the program just say
"This controler does not support data extraction"
And it can't be more of a table then this.
I have heard that it cant be because the structure of the PDF is bad.
Still isn't there more ways of doing this.
Unfortunately, there is no activity in UiPath to read tables directly from PDFs. (As of today.) That was the bad news. The good news is that you can get to the contents of the PDF. Either you get the data (as flat text) directly with UiPath.PDF.Activities.ReadPDFText or you have to use OCR.
#kwoxer provided a wonderful link for explanations on this topic.
I have already been able to extract data from tables contained in a PDF document. At that time, I was lucky: ReadPDFText extracted everything. The table elements were separated by tabs ("\t"). And the table header contained a word that did not appear elsewhere in the document.
Just as an idea, I proceeded like this:
Extract text from the PDF document with UiPath.PDF.Activities.ReadPDFText.
Create an array, where the elements are the lines in the document. (Split using Environment.NewLine and option StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
Go through lines in a loop (ForEach) until the table header is found. (StartsWith or Contains etc.)
The next row belongs to the table as long as it contains a tab. (Otherwise the table is over.)
Split current row by tab and store it in an array: The elements of the array are the individual cells of the row.
I hope, this idea help.
I want to save a specific value that is on a specific row and column. How I can do this? I already search, but I didn't find anything
One doesn't save a value from the grid but rather from the underlying dataset. The following is for Delphi, but I understand that Lazarus is near enough the same. Let's say that the grid is displaying data from a query qTest that has fields id, surname, forename, date of birth (DOB). In Delphi, one can automatically have variables created with names qTestID, qTestSurname, etc. Another way of referring to the variables is by use of the 'fieldbyname' syntax - qTest.fieldbyname ('surname').asstring.
Write a dblClick handler for the grid: when one gets to the row that holds the required data, perform a double click. In the handler, the fields of the row will now be available as qTestID.asinteger, qTestSurname.asstring, etc.
I am building a generic CSV output module with a variable number of columns. The DataFormat in BW (5.14) lets you define repeating item and thus offers a list of items that I could use to map data to in the RenderCSV step.
But when I run this with data for >> 1 column (and loopings) only one column is generated.
Is the feature broken or do I use it wrongly?
Alternatively I defined "enough" optional columns in the data format and map each field separately - no really generic solution.
Looks like In BW 5, when using Data Format and Parse Data to parse text, repeating elements isn’t supported.
Please see https://support.tibco.com/s/article/Tibco-KnowledgeArticle-Article-27133
The workaround is to use Data Format resource, Parse Data and Mapper
activities together. First use Data Format and Parse Data to parse the
text into the xml where every element represents one line of the text.
Then use Mapper activity and tib:tokenize-allow-empty XSLT function to
tokenize every line and get sub-elements for each field in the lines.
The link has also attached workaround implementation
I am trying to parse a CSV file as an input for my process.
I used the FilePoller to detect any changes, made in the .csv file. The poller is connected to the ParseData Activity which is referenced by the DataFormat Ressource, where I am defining the structure of my data. The output of ParseData is used in the RenderXML activity to create an xml string.
I am facing the issue, that I am not able to loop through each line in the CSV file to parse it to an XML document structure.
Do you have a resolution, how to implement this?
Please find the "Demo" process attached to this post.
Link to Process
Thank you in advance
Adrian
Select both the RenderXml and WriteFile activities. You can do that by clicking one, and then holding the Shift button while you click on the second.
Right-click over the selected activities, and select Create Group > Iterate. This will create an Iterate Scope around the two selected activities.
Click on the Properties panel and select the output of the ParseData activity as the Variable List through which you would like to iterate.
I hope this helps!
As per my understanding you are getting repeated element in Parse Data Output and these repeated element you want to map to render xml schema . Which is not allowed until and unless in schema you have element to which you want to map is of repeated type. If that element is of repeated type then map element from the right side to left side and select for each option. Then for every element in Parse data it will map to schema element.
Hope Your doubt get resolved.