Try as I might, I cannot figure out how to change the default table format in the pdf output from sphinx.
I could edit the .tex file, or the writer.py source code... but both of those seem like bad options.
Is there any thing that can be passed to the preamble to accomplish that?
Depending on what you are trying to accomplish by changing the table format. For instance if you want to define row colors and change the tables accordingly across the document you can use both the xcolor package and redefine how tabular handles that at the point of definition by changing the tabular environment.
So in the preamble you would do
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\definecolor{foo}{RGB}{236,137,29}
\definecolor{bar}{RGB}{232,108,31}
\let\newtabular\tabular
\let\newendtabular\endtabular
\renewenvironment{tabular}{\rowcolors{2}{foo}{bar}\newtabular}{\newendtabular}
This will overwrite the default tabular environment and apply the foo and bar row colors throughout the document, starting at the second row.
For having more directives related to tables. You should take a look at sphinxtr
Jeff Terrace has some great extensions included, but the two main ones to use are numfig and figtable. You can wrap a csv table into figtable.
.. figtable::
:label: my-csv-label
:caption: My CSV Table
:nofig:
.. csv-table::
:file: data/foo.csv
:header-rows: 1
Changing the standard table format with the caption below instead of above. Then you also have the added benefit of being able to directly link to that table by using :num:.
:num:`Table #my-csv-label`
It will automatically number accordingly, without referencing the label name. You can also use
.. figtable::
:spec: {r l r l}
To better define how you want your table to appear.
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I'm putting together a report in the BI Publisher Word .rtf plugin with very specific layout needs. One of those needs is the ability to switch company logos depending on parameters entered. I've been using conditional fields to selectively display each logo, but for some reason I can't reference data fields in the conditional code.
I've used these methods:
<?if: column_name = 'desired_value'?> [logo1] <?end if?>
<?choose:?><when: column_name = 'desired_value'?> [logo1] <?end when?>
Both of these methods seem to work when given raw values (i.e. instead of column_name = desired_value, I used 1=1 and it printed) but not when I use the name of the column I'm trying to compare.
For a more concrete example:
<?if: p_jno_in > 0?>
is always false, as if p_jno_in is null rather than having a value. (this variable represents the job number of the report and will never be null, even in my test data/sample xml.)
EDIT: Here is an example of what I've used, and the output.
If you host the image on the server, you can do all sorts of stuff with BI Publisher logic and concatenating an image path string. Make sure you or your DBA makes the path readable by BI Publisher. They can also map it to an FTP connection so you can edit/add images without being in Unix.
Insert any dummy placeholder image in RTF template (Insert Picture)
Right click on image and click “Edit Alt Text” and enter dynamic path. (See below for example)
url:{concat('${OA_MEDIA}/XX_LOGOS',/XML_PATH/LOGO_NAME,'_','small','.jpg')}
Other older versions of Word may have this data stored in the Size/AltText or Format Picture/Web menus
I looked around a bit and found the answer to my question. Turns out I was actually using the correct format the whole time! The issue was actually that I was referencing fields inside a for-each grouping, which I think might limit the scope. So, for example, if my BI Publisher data model has a query block A that has been split into two groups AA and AB, trying to reference a field from AA when you're in a for-each looping on an element from AB will not work.
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.
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.
i'm writing a program at work for a categorizing issue.
i get data in the form of CODE, DESCRIPTION, SUB-TOTAL for example:
LIQ013 COGNAC 25
LIQ023 VODKA 21
FD0001 PRETZELS 10
PP0502 NAPKINS 5
Now it all generally follows something like this...the problem is my company supplies numerous different bars. So there are like 800 records a month with data like this. My boss wants to breakdown the data so she knows how much we spend on a certain category each month. For example:
ALCOHOL 46
FOOD 10
PAPER 5
What I've thought of is I setup a sort of "data-base" which is really a csv text file that contains entries like this:
LIQ,COGNAC,ALCOHOL
LIQ,VODKA,ALCOHOL
FD,PRETZELS,FOOD
FD,POPCORN,FOOD
I've already written code that imports the database as a worksheet and separates each field into its own column. I want excel to look through the file and when it sees LIQ and COGNAC to assign it the ALCOHOL designator. That way I can use a pivot table to get the category sums. For example I want the final product to look like this:
LIQ013 COGNAC 25 ALCOHOL
LIQ023 VODKA 21 ALCOHOL
FD0001 PRETZELS 10 FOOD
PP0502 NAPKINS 5 PAPER
Does anyone have any suggestions? My worry is that a single point expression match to JUST the code i.e. just to LIQ without a match to COGNAC as well would maybe result in problems later when there are conflicting descriptions? I'd also like the user to be able to add ledger entries so that the database of recognized terms grows and becomes more expansive and hopefully more accurate.
EDIT
as per #Marc 's request i'm including my solution:
code file
please note that this is a pretty dumb-ed down solution. i removed a bunch of the fail-safes and other bits of code that were relevant to a robust code but not to our particular solution.
in order to get this to work there are two parts:
the first is the macro source code
the second is the actual file
because all the fail-safes are removed, the file needs to be imported to excel exactly the way it appears. i.e. Sheet1 on the googleDoc should be Sheet1 on the excel, start pasting data at cell "A1". before the macro is run, be sure to select cell "A1" in Sheet1. as i said, there are implementations in the finished product to make it more user friendly! enjoy!
EDIT2
These links suck. They don't paste well into excel.
If your comfortable with it I can email you the actual workbook. Which would help in preserving the formatting etc.
Use a lookup table in a separate sheet. Column A of the lookup sheet contains the lookup value (e.g. PRETZELS), Column B contains the category (FOOD, ALCOHOL, etc). In the cells where you want the category to show up in your original sheet (let's use D3 for the result where B3 holds the "PRETZELS" value), type this formula:
=VLOOKUP(B3,OtherSheet!$A$1:$B$500,2,FALSE)
That assumes that your lookup table is in range A1:B500 of a worksheet named "OtherSheet".
This formula tells Excel to find the lookup value (B3) in column A of your lookup and return the corresponding value from column B of your lookup table. Absolute references (the $) ensure that your formula won't increment cell references when you copy/paste the formula in other cells.
When you get new categories and/or inventory, you can update your lookup table in this one place by just adding new rows to it.
I am making a document with many tables. But, the only way I know how to refer to them in the text is with a :ref:'my_table' and that puts the entire table name, "The long title of my table" in my text block. I would rather have it put in "Table 1.3" instead ... is that possible?
.. _my_table:
.. csv-table:: The long title of my table
:file: my_table.csv
:header-rows: 1
A separate but table related questions: is there a sphinx/docutils option for putting the table name/caption at the bottom rather than the top or is that a stylesheet/latex thing?
There's probably not a super-easy way to do this, but the numfig extension (as referenced in this question) does something very like this for Figures, and could probably be modified/adapted to do something similar for Tables.
A custom extension like this is probably the only way to accomplish this at present.