Does anyone know of an easy way to start an excel loop in Automation Anywhere at a row other than 1? (or two by using contains header option). I would like to start a loop at row 5 but everything I have tried thus far does not work.
Thanks in advance.
You can use the command - Go to Cell under Excel commands as explained below.
If you want to start from 5th row and 'A' column then before starting the excel loop:
Open spreadsheet
Select Go to Cell Command under excel commands
Select Specific Cell radio button
Provide the value of the Specific Cell as'A5'(which denotes 5th row and 'A' column)
Reference:
How to write data to excel file in a loop starting from a specific cell
Assign a loop count to a variable and if loop count is less than your desired row, continue the loop.
You can do this very easily using the "Continue" command. When you are looping in the excel using "Each row in an excel Dataset", make use of system variable "counter". Since you want to start from row 5, that means you will have to skip the first 3 lines as you have marked the contains header as yes. Use the condition "if counter < 4 then continue" which will skip the first 3 lines.
See below image for reference
There are couple of ways you can go about it,
♦defining counter would be one way to go about it.and loop starts after 5.
♦you can use specific cell to begin your task and use times for loop(rest of the rows) and can iterate to rest of the rows.
♦other is run a smaller task where it would copy all cell from row 5 to a new sheet and you can use generic excelloop to do the same task.
[this sheet can also be used to input something like "Success" and timestamp when loop finished that row to know its completed.]
Look at this. I can tell you about G1ANT as I have worked on that. Just change the value of from, your excel loop will start from that value only.
addon msoffice version 4.101.0.0
addon core version 4.101.0.0
addon language version 4.103.0.0
excel.open ♥environment⟦USERPROFILE⟧\Desktop\tlt.xlsx inbackgound true
for ♥n from 5 to 100 step 1
excel.getrow ♥n result ♥rowInput
dialog ♥rowInput
end
you cam use Excel Command.
Excel Command
1. Go to cell.
2. select your Excel Session
3. select specific Cells
If you use Excel command in Loop Command
you can use System variable "$Counter$"
And set Excel Command's select specific Cells to A$Counter$ / B$Counter$ etc.
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I am processing a flat file in SSIS and one of the requirements is that if a given row contains an incorrect number of delimiters, fail the row but continue processing the file.
My plan is to load the rows into a single column in SQL server, but during the load, I’d like to test each row during the data flow to see if it has the right number of delimiters, and add a derived column value to store the result of that comparison.
I’m thinking I could do that with a script task component, but I’m wondering if anyone has done that before and what would be the best method? If a script task component would be the way to go, how do I access the raw row with its delimiters inside the script task?
SOLUTION:
I ended up going with a modified version of Holder's answer as I found that TOKENCOUNT() will not count null values per this SO answer. When two delimiters are not separated by a value, it will result in an incorrect count (at least for my purposes).
I used the following expression instead:
LEN(EntireRow) - LEN(REPLACE(EntireRow, "|", ""))
This results in the correct count of delimiters in the row, regardless of whether there's a value in a given field or not.
My suggestion is to use Derrived Column to do your test
And then add a Conditional Split to decide if you want to insert the rows or not.
Something like this:
Use the TokenCount function in the Derrived Column box to get number of columns like this: TOKENCOUNT(EntireRow,"|")
I copied a downloaded spreadsheet that has a bunch of data in it, numbers and text mixed. I've done this before but I'm not sure how I did it since it seems I can't recreate it.
So I copied and pasted the data into my workbook. I pasted values and everything with a number has an error flag saying that the number is stored as text. Somehow I was able to do it before where it just pasted the values with formatting as General and everything did not have an error flag.
Can someone please help me on this?
Unfortunately it depends on how the data is originally stored. If it was stored as text, then you'll get text no matter how you paste it. You'll need to convert the text to numbers.
There are a couple of ways of doing this:
If your spreadsheet has a couple of columns, you can use Text-to-Columns:
Select 1 column at a time
Click Data > Text to Columns
Click Next and untick all Delimiters
Click Finish
Repeat for each column
If your spreadsheet has lots of columns, it's quicker to use a Paste-Special trick:
In an unused cell, enter a value of 1
Copy it
Select all of the data you downloaded
Right click on the data and choose Paste Special
In the Operation section, choose multiply
Click OK
Excel then tries to multiple everything by one. Anything that looks like a number get converted to a number so it can be multiplied by 1, which then doesn't change the number any further.
Note: If you have blank cells, they'll be converted to zeroes. If this is a problem, then use the following steps instead:
In an unused cell, enter a value of 1
Copy it
Select all of the data you downloaded
Click Ctrl-G
Click Speical
Select Constants then click OK. You should now have only cells with data selected.
Right click one of the selected cells and choose Paste Special
In the Operation section, choose multiply
Click OK
I have a spreadsheet in Google Sheets. We currently pulled it from Ooyala to run QA. We are trying to eliminate manual/human QA, and properly format many different values. An example of a row is
Header Row
Hello
hello
Yes
yes
Bye
bye
Is there a way to write a script that targets a column, for example Header Row, and then finds and replaces an entire master list of values? For example, somehow loading in a master doc that replaces all instances of hello with Hello and yes with Yes in one full swoop? Would also be willing to try R or some other platform.
If the example column is column A you can put in a free column:
=ArrayFormula(IF(LEN(A2:A), UPPER(LEFT(A2:A,1)) & RIGHT(A2:A, LEN(A2:A) - 1), ""))
And then copy paste-values the resulting column into column A.
You can just combine the PROPER function along with arrayformula and a condition to check for text:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(ISTEXT(A:A),PROPER(A:A),))
or if you want the final list of values to be unique you can also do:
=ARRAYFORMULA(UNIQUE(IF(ISTEXT(A:A),PROPER(A:A),)))
I am working on my first SSIS package. I have a view with data that looks something like:
Loc Data
1 asd
1 qwe
2 zxc
3 jkl
And I need all of the rows to go to different files based on the Loc value. So all of the data rows where Loc = 1 should end up in the file named Loc1.txt, and the same for each other Loc.
It seems like this can be accomplished with a conditional split to flat file, but that would require a destination for each Location. I have a lot of Locations, and they all will be handled the same way other than being split in to different files.
Is there a built in way to do this without creating a bunch of destination components? Or can I at least use the script component to act as a way?
You should be able to set an expression using a variable. Define your path up to the directory and then set the variable equal to that column.
You'll need an Execute SQL task to return a Single Row result set, and loop that in a container for every row in your original result set.
I don't have access at the moment to post screenshots, but this link should help outline the steps.
So when your package runs the expression will look like:
'C:\Documents\MyPath\location' + #User::LocationColumn + '.txt'
It should end up feeding your directory with files according to location.
Set the User::LocationColumn equal to the Location Column in your result set. Write your result set to group by Location, so all your records write to a single file per Location.
I spent some time try to complete this task using the method #Phoenix suggest, but stumbled upon this video along the way.
I ended up going with the method shown in the video. I was hoping I wouldn't have to separate it in to multiple select statements for each location and an extra one to grab the distinct locations, but I thought the SSIS implementation in the video was much cleaner than the alternative.
Change the connection manager's connection string, in which you have to use variable which should be changed.
By varying the variable, destination file also changes
and connection string is :
'C:\Documents\ABC\Files\' + #User::data + '.txt'
vote this if it helps you
How to skip some records in script component without using conditional split component?
Create a script component with asynchronous outputs
To skip records in a script component, you need to create the script component with asynchronous outputs. By default, a script component uses synchronous output, which means that each and every row that is input to the script will also be an output from the script.
If you're using SQL Server 2005, I think you'll have to start with a new Script component, because you can't change from synchronous to asynchronous once you've worked with a Script component. In SSIS for SQL Server 2008 you can switch a Script component from synchronous to asynchronous.
Edit your Script component and select the Inputs and Outputs tab.
Select the Output buffer in the treeview.
Select the SynchronousInputID property and change the value to None.
Select the Output Columns branch in the treeview. You must use the Add Column button to create a column for each input column.
Scripting
Skipping rows
Now you can edit your script. In the procedure that processes the rows, you will add some code to control skipping and outputting rows. When you want to skip a row, you will use the Row.NextRow() command where Row is the name of the input buffer. Here's an example:
If Row.number = 5 Then
Row.NextRow()
End If
In this example rows that have a 5 in the number column will be skipped.
Outputting rows
After applying your other transformation logic, you need to indicate that the row should go to the output. This is initiated with the Output0.AddRow() command where Output0 is the name of the output buffer. The AddRow function creates the next output buffer, which pushes the previous row out of the Script component.
After you create the new row, you must assign values to the columns in the new row.
Output0Buffer.AddRow()
Output0Buffer.number = Row.number
This example adds a new row to the buffer and assigns the number value from the input buffer to the number column in the output buffer.