Is it possible to create PDF documents (e.g. on a nightly schedule) with Tableau and have those documents exposed by a URL by the Tableau server?
This sort of approach is common in the Jasper Reports and BIRT world, so I was wondering if the same approach is possible with Tableau?
I couldn't see any documentation on the Tableau site for creating PDFs, other than print to PDF
With Tableau Server, you can access your published workbook in a pdf format with this URL:
http://nameofyourtableauserver/views/NameOfYourWorkbook/NameOfYourView.pdf
Simply, the url is the url of your view + you add ".pdf".
The pdf file will be generated dynamically when accessing the URL.
Another option is to program your own script with tabcmd.
You can have more info on tabcmd here: http://kb.tableausoftware.com/articles/knowledgebase/using-tabcmd
The same technique also works for PNG. You can control filters using ?field_name=value. You can even select multiple values like this ?field_name=value1,value2.
Parameters can be set the same way.
Personally I've had the best luck with discrete dimensions instead of continuous ones.
I use the Windows Task Scheduler with batch files and Tabcmd.
Programs needed:
Tabcmd
Windows TaskScheduler (All Programs- Accessories - system tools)
http://onlinehelp.tableausoftware.com/v8.1/server/en-us/tabcmd_overview.htm
(tabcmd, how it works?)
Batchfile (create a text file and then save with file extension .bat):
1- Locate tabcmd and login
2- use function tabcmd get "http:\..." and -f "C:...pdf" to save to file.
3- concatenate the filters you want to use to the end of your URL as shown in other answers(all filters on the view must be included(filled out))
4- Save Batch file
Windows Task Scheduler:
1- create a task that will execute the batch file
2- TEST
You can do this by typing
http://server/views/WorkbookName/SheetName.pdf?:format=pdf
Another option will be using javascript api like below..
function exportPDF() {
viz.showExportPDFDialog();
}
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As with others who have posted in the past, I cannot figure out to download a csv.gz file from a URL in Python 3.7. I see posts but they only post a 2kb file.
I am a 100% newbie using Python. What follows is the code for one file that I am trying to obtain. I can't even do that. The final goal would be to request all files that start with 2019* using python. Please try the code below to save the file. As others stated, the file is just a name without the true content - Ref: Downloading a csv.gz file from url in Python
import requests
url = 'https://public.bitmex.com/?prefix=data/trade/20191026.csv.gz'
r = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True)
open('20191026.csv.gz', 'wb').write(r.content)
Yields:
Out[40]:
1245
I've tried "wget" and urllib.request along with "urlretrieve" also.
I wish I could add a screenshot or attach a file. The file created is 2kb and not even a csv.gz file. But the true file that I can download from a web browser is 78mb. The file is 20191026.csv.gz not that it matters as they all do the same thing. The location is https://public.bitmex.com/?prefix=data/trade/
Again, if you know of a way to obtain all the files using a filter such that 2019*csv.gz would be fantastic.
You are trying to download the files from https://public.bitmex.com/?prefix=data/trade/.
To achieve your final goal of download all the files starting from 2019* you have to do in 3 steps
1) you read the content of https://public.bitmex.com/?prefix=data/trade/
2) convert the content into an list, from that filter out the file names which starting from 2019.
3) from the result list try to download the csv using the example which you referring.
Hope this approach will help you
Happy coding.
I'm new to talend, I have java code which need to get data from files. I want to use them in talend job. Now am facing problem how to use this java code in talend, I created routine but facing problem in creating jar files, and also how should I use this routine in my job.
I don't know what you want to do but normally you would use the build-in Talend components for reading a file.
Depending on your File you are going to read you can use:
tFileInputRaw - for reading a file line by line
tFileInputDelimited - for reading CSV files (getting a set of columns)
tFileInputExcel - for XLS/XLSX files (getting a set of columns)
If you want to use your code anyway you have to make your routine available to your job. To do that, close your job, click right on the job and choose "setup routine dependencies". You should be able to add a routine by click the green "+"-button.
After that you are able to use your functions in a tJava or tJavaRow component with routines.ClassName.functionName().
I'm using TCPDF to create two separate reports in different parts of my website. I would like that, in the end of the first report, the second report should be loaded.
It's different than import a PDF file, because the second report is also generated by TCPDF. Is there a way to do this?
I assume from your question that what you ultimately want to provide is one PDF file that consists of the first PDF concatenated with the second PDF.
One quick and dirty solution is to utilize the pdftk command line PDF processor and call it from within your PHP code using the exec() function. The pdftk command has many features and concatenating files is only one of them, but it does an awesome job. Depending on your hosting situation, this may or may not be an option for you.
The other option would be to use FPDI to import the two PDF files and concatenate them within your PHP code and then send the concatenated version to the user.
More information on using PFDI here:
Merge existing PDF with dynamically generated PDF using TCPDF
Given that you're already using TCPDF, importing the pre-existing file that you want to concatenate with the one you've just created shouldn't be too difficult.
Just add FPDI to your project/composer from:
https://www.setasign.com/products/fpdi/downloads/
Can you still used tcpdf.
FPDI support all the methods of tcpdf, just used new FPDI() instead new tcpdf() the result will be the same in your report, after you create your report marge the files with the code from this page:
https://www.setasign.com/products/fpdi/about/
In a loop, once set the first file and after this set the second...
If you will need help i am here for you.
how can I create file (PDF file for example) from binary stream I have stored in global? I have stream stored in caché global and I need to create and save the file created by the stream using ObjectScript.
Thanks :)
It is not so easy. There is only one official way to create pdf in Cache, and it is ZEN reports. With ZEN reports you could create not only pdf, also possible to make html, xlsx. ZEN Reports used Apache FOP for generating it, any other ways also possible, but you should do it only by yourself.
Or maybe I misunderstood you, and you mean that your binary stream already contains PDF, and you just want to save it to some file. If so, you just have to copy your globalstream to filestream, with code like this:
set fs=##class(%Stream.FileBinary).%New()
set fs.Filename="c:\temp.pdf"
set tSC=fs.CopyFrom(yourStream)
set tSC=fs.%Save()
I came around this technique of converting datatable to excel
http://www26.brinkster.com/mvark/dyna/downloadasexcel.html
Do we have any Equivalent of Response.AppendHeader in windows application in C#.
Regards
Hema
The trick in the code sample that you have mentioned to dynamically generate an Excel file is based on the fact that documents can be converted from Word/Excel to HTML (File->Save As) and vice versa. Essentially a HTML page containing Office XML is created & in a web application a file download is triggered with the help of the following Response.AppendHeader statements -
Response.AppendHeader("Content-Type", "application/vnd.ms-excel");
Response.AppendHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=my.xls");
If you want to use this technique in a Winforms application, just save the string content as a text file and give the file an extension of ".xls". Instead of the last 3 lines in the sample's Page_Load method, replace it with this line -
System.IO.File.WriteAllText(#"C:\Report.xls", strBody);
HTH