I am trying to export few charts to Excel (.Xlsx format) through Qlikview Macro and to save it on postrelaod at a particular location. The file works perfectly fine when it is run manually or from the batch (.bat) on double click.
But when scheduled to run from the Qlikview Management Console through the external File(.bat file) its generating the Excel Extract but the file is blank. The error is:
Error: Paste method of Worksheet class failed
I have checked the permission/location of the file and its not an issue.
Postreload trigger saving charts via macro will not work via QMC (both postreload and frontend/chart manipulations doesn't work via QMC).
To solve that I do as following.
1) Set reload in QMC to refresh data in your document.
2) After successful reload another document which triggers... macro from first document to save that charts but with that it also gave me trouble as it generated conflict (you can not open Qlikview from Qlikview..... (I know that it is nosense) so in second document I run macro from first one like that (via PsExec):
EXECUTE "C:\Qlikview\PROD APPLICATION\modules\scripts\edx\PsExec64.exe" *\\SERVER_NAME* -u *SERVER_NAME\User* -p *password* -i 1 -d -high cmd /c ""C:\Program Files\QlikView\qv.exe" "C:\Qlikview\PROD APPLICATION\modules\$(vDocument).qvw" /vvRun=yes
I use variable vRun to specify that macro on open runs only when it is set to yes:
and in macro it is set to close app after saving charts:
ActiveDocument.UnlockAll
ActiveDocument.ClearAll true
ActiveDocument.Save
ActiveDocument.GetApplication.quit
end sub
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I like to execute a command line programm as a DAM workflow. I tried to implement the ImageMagic example from here: Best Practices for Configuring ImageMagick:
I addded a new Workflow Model,
added "command line" from the "DAM Workflow" list.
In the Argument tab set Mime type to "image/jpeg" (even tried wihtout Mime type)
and in Commands: "C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-7.0.7-Q16\magick.exe" convert ${file} -flip ${file}-flipped.jpg (instead of magick convet ... because in another discussion using an absolute path instead of global name helped people Re: CommmandLineProcess : ImageMagick)
I then added a luncher. And uploaded an Image to the DAM.
In the workflow > instances overview, i see that the workflow was started, it's running and the command line job is set to active.
Unfortunantly this state is never chnaged and no new asset is generated via imageMagic.
I even tried replacing the command with something simple like "ren C:\test\foo.txt bar.txt" which renames a local file. The chnage never happend either.
My question is what am i doing wrong, and how can i debug / find the command outputs? in \crx-quickstart\logs i couldn't find any logs regarding CommandLineProcess.
Thanx
I created a mapping that pulls data from a flat file that shows me usage data for specific SSRS reports. The file is overwritten each day with the previous days usage data. My issue is, sometimes the report doesn't have any usage for that day and my ETL sends me a "Failed" email because there wasn't any data in the Source. The job from running if there is no data in the source or to prevent it from failing.
--Thanks
A simple way to solve this is to create a "Passthrough" mapping that only contains a flat file source, source qualifier, and a flat file target.
You would create a session that runs this mapping at the beginning of your workflow and have it read your flat file source. The target can just be a dummy flat file that you keep overwriting. Then you would have this condition in the link to your next session that would actually process the file:
$s_Passthrough.SrcSuccessRows > 0
Yes, there are several ways, you can do this.
You can provide an empty file to ETL job when there is no source data. To do this, use a pre-session command like touch <filename> in the Informatica workflow. This will create an empty file with the <filename> if it is not present. The workflow will run successfully with 0 rows.
If you have a script that triggers the Informatica job, then you can put a check there as well like this:
if [ -e <filename> ]
then
pmcmd ...
fi
This will skip the job from executing.
Have another session before the actual dataload. Read the file, use a FALSE filter and some dummy target. Link this one to the session you already have and set the following link condition:
$yourDummySessionName.SrcSuccessRows > 0
I am trying to export the DataStage job designs with executables. Below is the screenshots I use to export from the GUI.
This is the two commands I use:
dsexport.exe /h=XX /U=XX /p=XX projectXXX /job=XXX jobname.dsx
dsexport.exe /h=XX /U=XX /p=XX projectXXX /job=XXX /EXEC /APPEND jobname.dsx
The file generated from commands is bigger than the one from GUI. Anyone knows how to use dsexport command to export jobs with the options as in the GUI screenshots. much appreciated. I am using Designer V8.5.
JS
C:\IBM\InformationServer\Clients\Classic>dsexport /d={ip address of server} /u={user id} /p={password} /job={job to export} {Project where job is located in} {FileName.dsx}
try this, it will export a single dsx file with all informations
P.S.I am using version 11.3
As you can see GUI is excluding some read-only files which is not excluded in command line this is why the file size difference is there.
You have "Include Dependent Items" unchecked in the GUI. The command line will include dependent items by default (i.e. shared containers or routines). You can disable this behaviour on the command line by using the /NODEPENDENTS command switch.
I'm writing a batch script that, among other things, opens a macro enabled excel file (.xlsm):
2>nul (
>>%CSF% echo off
) && (start "cmdTitle" /B excel %CSF% /e /automation) || (echo could not open)
%CSF% is the variable referring to a full path to the excel file i.e. "C:\test\testfile.xlsm" (including the quotes for cases where there may be spaces in the directory / filename)
This code checks if the file is locked for editing, then if not it opens the file (start command) otherwise echos could not open.
If I open the file from windows explorer or run just the following in a batch script the file opens fine.
set CSF="C:\Test Folder\Test.xlsm"
start "cmdTitle" /B excel %CSF% /e /automation
However, running the batch file when checking for a locked file always causes excel to say, "Excel found unreadable content in 'filename.xlsm' Do you want to recover the contents of this workbook?" which removes the macros from the file.
EDIT: In addition to the file not opening correctly, any excel add-ins that do something upon excel opening, for example, removing and recreating a command bar also fail to load: "Addin.xla cannot be accessed"
What is causing the difference in behavior between running the command alone and in redirection?
TIA
Examine the end of the file in a hex viewer and see what, if anything, is appended to the end.
Your code as posted works fine (echoing the excel command too). Some other code is likely to be the problem.
The command prompt works well in all respect of running the software as well as generating reports and output files. To generate an ouput file containing the desired result, we have to run the executable of the report program which uses a parameter file. For example if I were to implement these steps in command prompt, it would be like this:
“path\report.exe” –f Report.rwd –o Report.rwo
The output file is Report.rwo, this file will contain the variable exported.
Now to implement this in Matlab, below is a small script giving a gist of what I am trying to achieve. It calls the software for each run and extracts the data.
for nr=1:NREAL
dlmwrite(‘file.INC’,file(:,nr),’delimiter’,’\n’); % Writes the data file for each run
system('"path\file.dat"'); % calls software
system('"path\Report.rwd" –o "path\Report.rwo"'); % calls report
[a,b]=textread(‘"path\Report.rwo".rwo’,’%f\t%f’); % Reads the data and store it in the variable b
end
So I have two problems:
1) When I run this script in Matlab, it does not generate output file Report.rwo. Consequently, it gives an error when it reaches the line containing 'textread' function because of absence of the file.
2) Everytime Matlab calls a report (.rwd file), it prompts me to hit enter or type 'q' to quit. If suppose there are hundreds of files to run, then for every file I would be prompted to hit enter to proceed. The following line causes the prompt:
system('"path\Report.rwd" –o "path\Report.rwo"'); % Calls report
OLDER EDIT: There are 2 updates to my problem as follow:
Update 1: It seems that part 2 of my problem above has been resolved by Jacob. It is working fine for one run. However the final outcome will be confirmed only when I am able to run whole of my program which involves running hundreds of files.
Update 2: I can run the software and generate output file using command-prompt as follow:
**“path\mx200810.exe” –f file.dat**
This command reads the report parameter file and generates output file:
“path\report.exe” –f Report.rwd –o Report.rwo
LATEST EDIT:
1) I am able to run the software, avoid the prompt to hit the return key and generate the output file using Matlab through the following commands:
system('report.exe /f Report.rwd /o Report.rwo')
system('mx200810.exe -f file.dat')
However, I was able to do it only after copying my required .exe and .dll files in the same folder where I have my .dat file. So I am running the .m file through the same folder where I have all these files.
2) However there is still one error in Matlab's command window which says this:
"...STOP: Unable to open the following file as data file:
'file.dat'
Check path name for spaces, special character or a total length greater than 256 characters
Cannot find data file named 'file.dat'
Date and Time of End of Run: .....
ans = 0"
Strings enclosed in " .. " are invalid in MATLAB so I do not know how your system functions can even function.
Replace all " with ' and then update your question and include the command line arguments (e.g.-f file.dat) inside the quotes as below:
%# Calls software
system('"path\mx200810.exe" –f file.dat');
%# Calls report
system('"path\report.exe" –f Report.rwd –o Report.rwo');
Update:
Here's a cheap trick to solve your second problem (type q to terminate the program):
%# Calls software
system('"path\mx200810.exe" –f "path\file.dat" < "C:\inp.txt"');
%# Calls report
system('"path\report.exe" –f "path\Report.rwd" –o "path\Report.rwo" < "C:\inp.txt"');
Create a file (e.g. C:\inp.txt) which contains the letter q followed by the return character. You can create this by opening Notepad, typing q, hitting the return key and saving it as C:\inp.txt. This will serve as the "input" report.exe seems to need.
Change all the system calls in your code so that the input from the text file we just made is piped into it. I've included the modified calls above (scroll to the end to see the difference).
Use both outputs to get status of system run and text result, if any will be available.
cmd_line = '“path\report.exe” –f Report.rwd –o Report.rwo';
[status, result] = system(cmd_line);
Continue your script depending on status variable. Stop if it over then zero.
if (status)
error('Error running report.exe')
end
[a,b]=textread(...
If your parameters are variable you can generate the command line string in MATLAB using string concatenation or SPRINTF function.