I found this great tutorial on using HighCharts with , very useful but I couldn't find a related API letting me only specify a part of data in the table.
For example, in the case above (I added 2 cols to make it more easy to describe), what should I do if I only want to use HighCharts to display the data in a range (in the red dotted range)
Is there some parameter like datarange:{[0,0,4,4]} or even sometimes I only want to take care of some more complicated ranges (in the second image)
According to documentation:
* table : String|HTMLElement
* A HTML table or the id of such to be parsed as input data. Related options ara startRow,
* endRow, startColumn and endColumn to delimit what part of the table is used.
You can use startColumn/endColumn but data range is unforutnaltey not supported. You can request your suggestion in userVoice http://highcharts.uservoice.com/ system
http://jsfiddle.net/FYtnj/1/
Short description of how data module works you can find in full version of that file.
As you can see you can setup startColumn/startRow and endColumn/endRow. Something like data range isn't supported.
There is columns/rows option, but it works in a different way: http://jsfiddle.net/Y53FZ/
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[![enter image description here][4]][4][![enter image description here][5]][5]I have a PDF that has tabular data that runs over 50+ pages, i want to extract this table into an excel file using Automation Anywhere. (i am using community version of AA 11.3). I watched videos of the PDF integration command but haven't had any success trying this for tabular data.
Requesting assistance.
Thanks.
I am afraid that your case will be quite challenging... and the main reason for that are the values that contains multiple lines. You can still achieve what you need, and with good performance, but the code itself will not be pretty. You will also be facing challanges with Automation Anywhere, since it does not really provide the right tools to do such a thing and you may need to resort to scripting (VBScripts) or Metabots.
Solution 1
This one will try to use purely text extraction and Regular expressions. Mainly standard functionality, nothing too "dirty".
First you need to realise how do the exported data look like. You can see that you can export to Plain or Structured.
The Plain one is not useful at all as the data is all over the place, without any clear pattern.
The Structured one is much better as the data structure resembles the data from the original document. From looking at the data you can make these observations:
Each row contains 5 columns
All columns are always filled (at least in the visible sample set)
The last two columns can serve as a pattern "anchor" (identifier), because they contain a clear pattern (a number followed by minimum of two spaces followed by a dollar sign and another number)
Rows with data are separated by a blank row
The text columns may contain a multiline value, which will duplicate the rows (this one thing makes it especially tricky)
First wou need to ensure that the Structured data contain only the table, nothing else. You can probably use the Before-After string command for that.
Then you need to check if you can reliably identify the character width of every column. You can try this for yourself if you copy the text into Excel, use the Text to Columns with the Fixed Width option and try to play around with the sliders
The you need to try to find a way how to reliably identify each row and prepare it for the Split command in AA. For that you need to have a delimiter. But since each data row can actually consists of multiple text rows, you need to create a delimiter of your own. I used the Replace function with Regular Expression option and replace a specific pattern for a delimiter (pipe). See here.
Now that you have added a custom delimiter, you can use the Split command to add each row into a list and loop through it.
Because each data row may consists of several rows, you will need to use Split again, this time use the [ENTER] as delimiter. Now you need to loop through each of the text line of a single data line and use the Substring function to extract data based on column width and concatenate them to a single value that you store somewhere else.
All in all, a painful process.
Solution 2
This may not be applicable, but it's worth a try - open the PDF in Microsoft Word. It will give you a warning, ignore it. Word will attempt to open the document and, if you're lucky, it will recognise your table as a table. If it works, it will make the data extraction much easier an you will be able to use Macros/VBA or even simple Copy&Paste. I tried it on a random PDF of my own and it works quite well.
I'm using a bidirectional map to link a list of names to a particular single name (for example, to correlate cities and countries). So, my definition of the type is something like:
using boost::bimap<boost::bimaps::unordered_set_of<std::string>, std::string> CitiesVsCountries;
But one question intrigues me:
What's the advantage on using a boost::bimaps::unordered_set_of<std::string> v/s a simple std::unordered_set? The advantage of the bimap is clear (avoing having to synchronize by hand two maps), but I can't really see what added value is giving the Boost version of the unordered set, nor I can find any document detailing the difference.
Thanks a lot for your help.
I've got a lot of "duration" values - basically a race duration - in a format m:ss.millis [4:03.810 for example].
Currently GS handles it as text, but I would like to use those values for comparison and create some statistics.
Is this possible? I have read this: How to format a duration as HH:mm in the new Google sheets but even though I have created a custom formats like:
or
but neither with one nor with another I cannot use those values for calculations. GS always complains about the values beeing stored as text.
I guess I'm just doing something wrong, but I definitely need to be able to provide values in this format and be able to use them in calculations.
How can I do that?
I regret that Duration seems to be a useless abomination and Sheets appears to offer no relatively easy way to convert text representation to values. Pending a better answer I suggest you convert all your durations as below:
=(left(A1,find(":",A1)-1)+right(A1,6)/60)/1440
format as Number:
mm:ss.000
and then apply your formulae.
(Change , to ; if required by your locale.)
A shorter formula might be used to cajole TIMEVALUE to work by including an hour value of 0:
=TIMEVALUE("00:"&A1)
A happy coincidence brought me back here because only very recently have I found that Google Sheets does offer a way to convert Text to Number (or I was having another aberration when I claimed otherwise). However, this still seems not to apply to Duration. Maybe there is yet hope though.
I am fairly sure stuff like this has been answered but I am losing my hair at the moment with this. I am using Filemaker Pro 13
I have been landed with the job of updating some templates, I have done this before but all I was doing was updating the visual side of things. Now I am wanted to dynamically update some labels and calculations depending on a 'Company selected(drop down with custom values that are all text).
Currently all costs are multiplied by 2. So if original cost = $4 then customer cost is $8. However if 'Company 4' is selected rather than being multiplied by 2 it needs to be multiplied by 1.5.
I currently have two functions that I am trying to use this functionality on a field box.
First function:
If (Company: = "Comp4"; 1;0)
Second function:
If (${Function1}; ${$Cost}*1.5; ${$Cost}*2 )
This does not work, hence the answering of this question. As far as I could understand if statements work as (Condintion; If true do X; Else do Y;). This may be the problem? I do come from a programming background but this program is irritating me beyond belief at the moment.
If this has been answered before then I offer my sincerest apologies.
Thank you for any answers or help pointing me into the right direction.
Edit: Just tried this:
If (ValueCount(FilterValues(Company;"Comp4"));${$Cost}*1.5; ${$Cost}*2)
This was to no avail. Ideally if I could fit this into one function that would be great but so far I am still failing.
Edit 2:
With regards to the function / functions not working. I would often only get the ${$Cost}*2 side of things would happen however the ${$Cost}*1.5 would not even when "Comp4" was selected. This made me think that it was either the system was not detecting "Comp4" was selected or I need to look elsewhere to find the value I need to look at.
Edit 3: Real values and calculations used
Currently used and working so to speak ( Just does the *2 aspect of things)
Field Name: x2$Charges
Calculation: ${$Charges}*2. - $Charges is the 'cost' fields (10 of them).
What I want to do is when a specific company is selected rather than doing cost *2 I want to do cost *1.5.
The check for said company is :
Field Name: x2CheckSSL
Calculation: If(Sales Rep.|Distributor: = "SSL";1.5;2)
Where Sales Rep.|Distributor: is 'Company'
It's difficult to tell what is wrong with your syntax, because we don't know the exact names of your fields. Also, "this does not work" is not a good description of a problem.
The fact that you have constructs like ${$Cost} indicates that you have invalid field names.
If you had fields named Company and Cost, then a calculation field (defined in the same table as these two fields) =
If ( Company = "Comp4" ; 1.5 ; 2 ) * Cost
should provide the expected result.
On a more general level, this is not a good approach to take. All of these factors {"Comp4", 1.5, 2} are data and should not be hard-coded into a calculation formula.
Properly, every company should have a markup value stored in its own record, and this would be looked up into a field when you select a company. Alternatively, only some (preferred) companies would have a markup, while others would use a default value stored in a preferences table.
In addition, the Company field in this table (Invoices?) should really be CompanyID and store only the (meaningless) ID of the selected company.
Added:
This is a suggestion how to perform a quick fix to your current problem, following the clarifications made in comments.
The following fields are being assumed:
• $Charges - Number[10]
• Sales Rep.|Distributor: - Text
• x2$Charges - Calculation[10] = [see formula below]
Change the calculation formula of x2$Charges to =
If ( Extend (Sales Rep.|Distributor: ) = "SSL" ; 1.5 ; 2 ) * ${$Charges}
There is no need for the x2CheckSSL field.
IMPORTANT:
You should not use repeating fields for this. I suggest that as soon as possible you rewrite your solution and fix the flaws dscovered here, namely:
Rename your fields to valid (and reasonable*) names ;
Convert repeating fields to records in a related table;
Use lookups instead of hard-coding data in calculations.
(*) e.g. not names that end with ":"
IF statement works exactly as you described and I do not see why you need two different functions. I do not understand your syntax - ${$Cost}. Are you trying to add "$" to your output?
Let's say you have a field for selection as "slelect_company" in Companies table/layout and you stored cost in a variable called $cost
You calculation will be:
If (Companies::slelect_company = "Comp4"; $Cost*1.5; $Cost*2 )
If you set the field to output result, use formatting to add $ sign
If you set the label on the layout to show the output, use this:
If (Companies::slelect_company = "Comp4"; "$" & $Cost*1.5; "$" & $Cost*2 )
If you have more than one check, you can use Case - similar to switch in the other languages
Rather than putting your calculation in a function try creating a new calculation field and put your calculation there. When the record is committed you will see the value of this calculation field change and you will know if your function is working.
To do this
Go to File->Manage->Database
Type in a new field name and select "calculation" as the type and press create.
Enter your calculation e.g. if(Companies::select_company = "Comp4"; Companies::Cost * 1.5; Companies::Cost * 2)
The calculation engine will tell you what the errors are when you try to press okay after typing the calculation.
If it never detects the condition "Comp4" then there is an error in your string comparison, perhaps a trailing space, or an uppercase character or similar.
In an experimental project I am playing with I want to be able to look at textual data and detect whether it contains data in a tabular format. Of course there are a lot of cases that could look like tabular data, so I was wondering what sort of algorithm I'd need to research to look for common features.
My first thought was to write a long switch/case statement that checked for data seperated by tabs, and then another case for data separated by pipe symbols and then yet another case for data separated in another way etc etc. Now of course I realize that I would have to come up with a list of different things to detect - but I wondered if there was a more intelligent way of detecting these features than doing a relatively slow search for each type.
I realize this question isn't especially eloquently put so I hope it makes some sense!
Any ideas?
(no idea how to tag this either - so help there is welcomed!)
The only reliable scheme would be to use machine-learning. You could, for example, train a perceptron classifier on a stack of examples of tabular and non-tabular materials.
A mixed solution might be appropriate, i.e. one whereby you handled the most common/obvious cases with simple heuristics (handled in "switch-like" manner) as you suggested, and to leave the harder cases, for automated-learning and other types of classifier-logic.
This assumes that you do not already have a defined types stored in the TSV.
A TSV file is typically
[Value1]\t[Value..N]\n
My suggestion would be to:
Count up all the tabs
Count up all of new lines
Count the total tabs in the first row
Divide the total number of tabs by the tabs in the first row
With the result of 4, if you get a remainder of 0 then you have a candidate of TSV files. From there you may either want to do the following things:
You can continue reading the data and ignoring the error of lines with less or more than the predicted tabs per line
You can scan each line before reading to make sure all are consistent
You can read up to the line that does not fit the format and then throw an error
Once you have a good prediction of the amount of tab separated values you can use a regular expression to parse out the values [as a group].