Good Day
I want to apply mail merge to a document which have 4 name, surname and birthday fields.
The reason why I did this is to save paper.
How can I use a loop to print each merge field with a different row in the data source.
I'm using Aspose.Words by the way.
Thanks in advance
in Microsoft Word you could use Rules...Next Record and the end of a cell or a row. adding this hidden field at the end of a table cell or row will get the data from the next record on the same page, saving you paper ... :-)
You can achieve this by executing "Mail Merge with Regions" functionality of Aspose.Words. Please refer to the following articles:
Mail Merge with Regions Explained
How to Execute Mail Merge with Regions
Hope, this helps. I work with Aspose as Developer Evangelist.
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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'd like to use data in column D
For a drop down in another sheet (data validation)
Only items where column A is less than 9
I tried List from a range
But it looks like you cannot put a formula in the range box
e.g.
=FILTER(GrpsTY!D2:D, GrpsTY!A2:A < 9)
Any suggestions?
formulas are not supported in data validation. the best course of action is to create a helper column with your filtered entries and then feed it to data validation.
Maybe they have added the functionality since the most recent answer (last July, 2020)?
I'm trying to figure out a formula that will let me validate data using a filtered list, and stumbled onto this:
This image shows that Google Sheets supports data validation using a custom formula
For Criteria, select "Custom formula is" instead of the default, "List from a range".
Hope this helps anyone who comes after me :)
I have a spreadsheet document with two sheets. Columns A is the name of a person. Rest of columns are informations about the person.
Using arrayformula() I "copied" column A of sheet1 to column A of sheet2 (so it updates automatically as soon as I add someone in the list).
All columns of sheet1 have filters so I can sort easily.
In the 2nd sheet I have other infos about the persons.
Now my problem is that when I sort from A-Z for instance, all info in sheet1 are sorted aswell. But in sheet2 they are all messed up.
I search for workarounds but didn't find any yet. I continue searching but I hope someone can help me here :)
Thanks for your answers !
(I can prepare a special sheet to show you my problem if you want)
Here is my doc so you can see what's wrong :
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YyVS-hRQ1s1H8hY_D8sr9_judYuGMtmhS1Algp-ESus/edit#gid=0
On a number of reports I have noticed that setting sort options through the tablix properties does not work. I choose the data I'd like to sort by (date) and set the option (Z to A), but the report still shows unsorted. Has anyone else seen this issue? I have read that updating the report xml to include the sort may be what needs to be done because the report builder does not preserve the changes made. Haven't gone down that road yet as I'm looking to see if there's a fix already identified.
Date Type Lead Name State distance Consultant ZIP State 1 Level Reason url
Those are the columns from the export with data filling each column. Can't give too much info because it shows phone numbers and addresses.
One option is to sort the data in your dataset. Then you can leave it and SSRS will honor that.
As the others mentioned, make sure you check the datatype so it's not trying to sort the dates as a string.
Set the sort priorities at the group level, not on the table or dataset properties.
You should never have to edit the XML to get this to work. This is a basic built-in feature that most reports use.
Do you have groups on your tablix? if yes, did you try sorting it with the Row Groups or Column Groups at bottom instead of the sorting properties of the tablix?
I've made the mistake of using the 'Calculate and Replace Column' feature to replace the wrong column, and realized after the fact. The column I replaced corresponds to last names and is important. I would like to retrieve this column but maintain my other 15 or so data transformations. Ideally, I would like to remove this transformation, but I've come up empty so far. Here's what I've tried:
I tried adding the 'last name' column again from the same external source, using >Insert >Columns... I also tried renaming this column to avoid the data transformation. Unfortunately, this resulted in an entirely empty column, so it did not successfully match to the table or was affected by the transformation..
I checked the source information, and found exactly the 3-4 lines that I wish were not there. I thought it might be possible to edit this but haven't found a way. This seems like it would be the easiest.
Another idea I had was I could replace the data table with the same source, and repeat all of the transformations from the replace data table dialogue (excluding the bad one). This is my next plan of attack, but I figured I would come on here to see if there's an easier way first.
Thanks in advance!
Good News for YOU!!! #jeremyVollen.
It is possible to 'edit' your transformation per Tibco article 44098.
Resolution: If there are more then one transformations on a data table and you need to edit any of those transformation, follow the steps below:
Go To Edit >> Data Table Properties.
Select the desired data table inside which the transformation has been added and click on Refresh Data > With Prompt.
A new window will pop up which will allow you to make the desired changes in each of the transformations.
unfortunately it is NOT possible to reverse data table transformations.
it IS possible to undo the transformations with Edit>>Undo or CTRL+Z, but that's as far as it goes.
my strategy for dealing with this is (in accordance with your #3) to visit Edit>>Data Table Properties, select the table I'm interested in, select Source Information, then copy the contents of the textarea and paste it into notepad. then, I'll File>>Replace Data Table and start over from the beginning while keeping the notepad open so I don't miss any steps.
I realize it's not ideal, but there is unfortunately not another way.