I have a multilingual Microsoft Form. I want to show a column for Language in my Power Automate flow, but I cannot find a way.
When I export the data from my form manually, the export shows Language.
But, within Power Automate, I do not seem to have the option to include this.
It's a key part of my data, so any ideas how I can achieve this?
Thanks!
See below the Microsoft Form, its just a set of questions, but the user has the ability to change the language in the corner, because its a multilingual form.
When I set up my Power Automate flow, the only options to include are the actual questions from the form...there is no way to add language.
But I know Microsoft is storing that information because if I export the data without Power Automate, Language is automatically included.
You have to create an Forms formular which is synchronizing with an Excel sheet.
For this, go to your One Drive and create a new forms formular:
After adding the option to change the language in the forms, you have to synchronize your responses in Excel again:
Now, you get a new Excel file with answers and the column "language" from the forms.
You can access to this Excel in Power Automate to use the column language in the flow. For this, use the action "Get a row". The key value is the ResponseID of your forms response.
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I am using MS Access linked to an SQL backend DB. Thus, design mode is unavailable in Access.
For one of the columns I want to be able to have a drop-down (combo-box) functionality where only the users will be able to select a value from the drop-down list.
I was able to do constraint in the SQL table, which restricts the values that can be entered, but this doesn't create the drop-down list in Access.
I searched and found this Is it possible to use a drop down list in a linked table in MS Access but no solution was provided.
thanks
For data entry by users, don't let them use the table directly, build a form instead.
There you can use drop-down boxes and everything else.
If you like the look and feel of datasheets, use the datasheet form wizard for a simple starting point.
You can (and should) build a form. (don't allow users to open a table directly, as then you can't really verify data input, and provide a workable UI to the users.
And you can even create a data sheet form. So, it will look and feel much like a table anyway.
And with dropping a combo box into that form? Then you are free to setup the combo box source that provides the list of choices.
In fact, often I will using a multiple-items form (a continues form), and the reason is that you can put multiple kinds of controls on that form.
this allows you to create forms like this:
So in above, we have buttons, check boxes, combo box etc. So, you have a lot more flexibly.
You never really wanted to allow or have direct use of tables. They are not in general for appcations and contrlling the user interface, but only a handy way for users to edit data. The instant you want control of the layout, and to use things like buttons, combo boxs, check box as above shows?
Then build your custom form for this purpose. As general rule, you really don't want users to edit tables directly - you have no control over what they can do, and this tends to make applications very hard to write, and control the user experience.
The title says it all. I need to create a form that the user fills in and on submit, I want the data to go to a database and a PDF to a directory on the server.
I don't think AngularJS can do all of these things, can it? I'm very new to programming -- trying to crossover from HTML/CSS/JS to more in-depth projects.
Can anyone please suggest the best course for this? What language for the form, writing to the DB and generating a PDF? I can do the rest of the research and build it out once I have some direction.
How would you go about achieving this?
Thanks!
Ugh. I forgot to mention that PHP is not an option. Is there another way?
All you need is to apply the paradigm Client / Server.
With angular.js you can build the client software for handling the form but this is not necessary...
With a single script php you can generate the page with the form and handling the incoming data.
You can use a standard relational database like mysql for storing it and, about the pdf, take a look here
I'm developing an open-source web application (a helpdesk) where the users will download it and install. This application will have some settings like: title, colors, default e-mail, logs... (for example). This settings will be edited by the user on the admin panel because most of them will not understand how to do it in code.
My question is what is the best way to store this on a (MySQL) database model? And counting that this application will upgrade and add more "settings" to that settings table.
Thank you in advance
There are a lot of different ways to do this, and it depends on what you think the final needs will be.
There's nothing wrong with saving parameters in a dedicated table, each parameter/user/value on a separate row. This is a fast way to set and get the information, and allows you to easily get access to reports by parameter and value and user, for example, what colors are the most popular.
If you are just using this for configuration, you can store the parameters as an XML or JSON string in a text/blob field. This has the benefit of giving you a single load to get all of the parameter values. Even more powerful, if your application already has default values for the parameters, you can easily extend the application without changing the database records. For a large number of parameters, this reduces the number of DB calls to load up all the parameters.
Does anyone have an elegant suggestion for how to get the contents of an Excel spreadsheet into SQL Server via a web form? I need to allow our clients to upload modest amounts of structured data, and I need that data to ultimately reside in a sql table. I really can't expect the clientele to produce anything but an Excel file, but I could require that it be an xlsx.
The web app is written in Coldfusion; it doesn't need to be able to handle huge numbers of simultaneous requests, but I don't want to consider some sort of server-side batch job processing or shunt the user to an asp.net page (which is what we are doing now).
Any recommendations (or examples of how others are successfully doing this) would be appreciated. Due to the sensitivity of the data, we really can't do anything to compromise the security of the web or sql servers.
If you are using CF9, then you could easily use the cfspreadsheet tag too. I mention this one specifically because Shawn's link did not (presumably due to its being relatively new on the CF scene). Here's the livedoc link: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec17cba-7f87.html
For full use, I would create a web form with a standard file upload field. On the backend handling the form submission, get a copy of the file with
<cffile action="upload" destination="uploaded.xls".....>
Then use:
<cfspreadsheet action="read" query="myExcelData" src="uploaded.xls" ...>
At which point, your spreadsheet content will be available as a query object. You can then loop over this query, running insert queries into your sql server each time you loop. That should do it.
Here are the most notable options to help point you in the right direction; choose what you are most comfortable with (Source: Charlie Arehart).
CFXL
JXLS
CFX_Excel
My personal recommendation is to go the CFX_Excel route. Although a commercial product, it will grant you the most functionality/flexibility of the options listed.
I'm kind of new to Access. I've got some experience working with integrating MySQL and Oracle with PHP to create web-based database search engines, but I am having difficulty understanding certain concepts with Access.
I've got a small database with around 200 entries with 20 fields each. I've written a form to search it by using VBA to run an SQL query against the database and displays the results in datasheet mode to a different form (is this the standard way of doing this, or is there a better way?)
I want to be able to add a button to export those results to excel (or csv or tab or whatever, it doesn't really matter). However, I'm not sure how to do this with the form results. Its easy with an entire database, but I can't find documentation on how to do this. Is there a way to do this? Or am I doing this wrong?
If at all required, I can provide more details.
You said "I've written a form to search it by using VBA to run an SQL query against the database and displays the results in datasheet mode to a different form".
If you mean an actual form in datasheet view, you can export that form's data to Excel with the DoCmd.OutputTo method.
DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputForm, "frmResults", acFormatXLS, _
"C:\SomeFolder\ExportedResults.xls"
However, if you're opening a query in datasheet view, rather than an actual form, you can export the query's result set.
DoCmd.OutputTo acOutputQuery, "qryResults", acFormatXLS, _
"C:\SomeFolder\ExportedResults.xls"
You can choose a different OutputFormat instead of Excel if you wish. Look at Access' Help topic for the OutputTo method to see the available choices.