I am creating a program that opens files in a folder that contains "RPA" in their name. so, how can I do that?
You will use Loop on File in Folder command, and if condition inside the loop to check if the file name includes RPA.
Loop on Files on Folder
If condition $Filename$ includes RPA
Do Something here eg. open program/file command
End If
End Loop
#Shivam,
To get more clarity on your problem statement, you mentioned once that the files are already in PDF.
Are you trying to copy content from PDF to Word? In that case, you could use PDF Integration commands, provided the PDFs are not hand-written or scans. If that is the case, the text extraction might become more unreliable.
A safe bet with Automation Anywhere is to just extract all the text, open a new Word document and paste the content and save file.
Saving all files as word might a little counter-intuitive. You can just use the If statement within your for loop to only process files with "RPA" in their name.
Hope this help. Let us know you go :-)
its pretty simple use includes in your if statement
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I am using a loop in a folder to check for acrobat reader if the folder contains pdf files but the loop is not running yet.
I am able to open the pdf file manually.
Can anyone suggest why I am not able to run the loop?
Loop While Window Exist ("Adobe Acrobat Reader") Then
Delay: (5 sec)
End Loop
You'll need to start the loop for "Each File in Folder" and specify the directory location to look in. Then You'll need to use the system variables $FileName$ and $Extension$ to look for each .pdf and open them. Please see my example code below.
AA's documentation on this process is here
If you're just checking to see if the file in a folder exists, then you would use the If/Else command for "File Exists" in place of the "Open File" command I provided as an example. AA also has documentation on that here.
I use the command line go-jira from Netflix to automate some tasks with JIRA. In certain circumstances I am asked to enter a multi-line input content through an editor. For example with the command:
jira.exe create --editor="notepad++.exe"
The program then expects me to save the file of the editor and then go-jira completes the action by picking up the saved file. The file format is BTW YML.
Is there a way to tell go-jira to use automatically an existing file instead of using the interactive editor?
I have to substitute the letter "A" with letter "C" in the content of a txt file.
Let test.txt be a txt file. The content is as follows:
Ace Apple
I need the content in the destination folder to be as :
Cce Cpple.
Is this possible in mqfte using ant tasks?
The short answer is "yes."
The longer answer is that you can do anything with Ant that can be scripted, including calling other scripts. The approach would be to use a post-destination call that would edit the file after it arrives. This call won't fire if the file transfer fails. If the transfer succeeds the post-destination call does fire and will run your task or script to edit the file. Just remember that if you configure this to run as a monitor, it will fire on every file transfer. If you want to run it as an ad-hoc transfer you will need to submit it from the command line since the GUI does not support the pre/post calls.
How do i get the location of the file that i used to open my programs with?
Example: if i create a new extention ".xyz" say and i tell windows that i want to open the file type .xyz with myapplication, then it starts my aplication. Great, but how does my application get a handle on the file path of the file that was used to start it?
Also, is there a way to keep just one version of my app running and new files that are opened to just call a method in my application? For example if your using a torrent and you open 5 .torrent files they all just get passed to one application.
Side question: are all file extensions 3 letters long and is there a list of ones that are publicly used? If im creating a file extension I don't want to use one that is already used.
When you created your file association, you specified the command line that Explorer should run to activate your program. The shell puts the name of the document file on the command line, too, so in your program, check the command-line arguments. How you do that depends on your language and development environment. In Delphi, use the ParamCount and ParamStr functions.
When you create the file association, you can specify exactly where on the command line the document file name should go. Use %1 somewhere on the command line, and the shell will replace it with the file name. Since Windows file names frequently contains spaces, you should put quotation marks around the file name, so the command line in the file association would look like this:
ArthurApp.exe "%1"
With that association, double-clicking another document file will start another instance of your program. If you'd prefer to have the document opened in another window of the already-running instance, then you can write code to make your program look for already-running instances when it starts up. If it finds one, then it can communicate with that instance to tell it what file to open. You can effect that communication any number of ways, including mailslots, sockets, named pipes, memory-mapped files, and DDE.
The shell's file-association mechanism already has a way of communicating via DDE, so a second instance of your program wouldn't be started at all. Instead, the shell would start a DDE conversation with the already-running instance and tell it the new file name that way. However, DDE seems to be falling out of favor nowadays, so check out some of the other options first.
For your side question, no, extensions are not always three characters long. Look around, and that should be obvious: C code goes in .c files, Adobe Illustrator graphics go in .ai files, and new Microsoft Word documents go in .docx files.
But beware. If you ask for **.doc*, the results will include .docx files as well. That's because FindFirstFile matches both short and long file names, and long file names with long file extensions have three-character extensions in their short-file-name versions.
Rob covered the answer to your question(s) beautifully.
As to the last part, whether there is a public list of file extensions - not as such, but there is shell.windows.com, the web service Explorer uses to locate handlers for unknown file extensions. You can make up an extension then query shell.windows.com to see whether it's been registered. For example, to check whether the extension .blah has been registered by anyone on shell.windows.com, just open this URL in any browser:
http://shell.windows.com/fileassoc/0409/xml/redir.asp?ext=blah
Of course, replace the trailing blah with your extension.
You can find more details about this in KB929149 and in Raymond Chen's post Where does shell.windows.com get information about file extensions, and how do I get in on that action?.