alright, after a few hours of searching and reading all over the net, I have broken down and decided to ask for help. I am working to automate many of the more medial and repetitive tasks as work, and stumbled upon AutoIt, I love the tool. anyway, Today's task is the export of a slew of tables and queries from Access 2007 in a few different formats. mostly CSVs some Tab delimited, and a couple of dBase DBFs and DBTs. now none of this is all that difficult and in fact the person who previously held my position created about a hundred Macros in the mdb that export the tables. seems to me that he fell well short of hastening the process as you still have to run each macro. I am looking to create an autoit script that will export the correct tables in the correct format to the correct place with the correct name. doesn't seem like it should be that difficult.
so thus far I have been imagining using ADO to tell Access to export which table in which format and where. but I cannot seem to find the necessary commands needed to do that. I also figured that perhaps, at least with the text based formats (CSV, txt, tab) I could read each record out of a given table or query and then build the text file myself in autoit, not the simplest way of doing it, but it could work. The problem arises when trying to create the dBase file, I haven't a clue where to begin with that.
I am open to using JAVA, AutoIt, PHP, or Perl to accomplish my task.
I should note that I am fairly new to ADO. the syntax in ADO seems to elude me frequently. so, any and all help is appreciated, please refrain from the "Just google it" responses. if you have a link to share, or a resource that you have found helpful please post that as well, I am not allergic to reading or doing research. Sometimes it just makes more sense to ask for help.
Thanks,
Kyle
If you are open to using VBA, you could probably make it work with only a little code and the DoCmd-Object.
To export as CSV, have a look at DoCmd.Transfertext
To export to dBase, have a look at DoCmd.TransferDatabase
If you have questions about using those, just ask in the comments and I will provide more information.
This is a sort of bonkers idea, but if you already know Java, you may be able to get this to work with the JDBC-ODBC bridge. You'll first have to register your particular Access database as a named ODBC data source, as the bridge does not appear to support on-the-fly ODBC. I don't have a Windows machine on hand and don't remember the exact sequence of steps to do that, but it should be available from the ODBC driver manager.
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Currently I am working on a program that will assist me for making decisions when trying to bet on sports. My goal is for the program is that each day I would like to retrieve things like weather, past games, player/team stats etc. then aggregate it all so that I can see which teams make the most sense to bet on.
I'm not exactly sure if it's even possible to do on IntelliJ, the text editor I'm using, because I do not think its connected to the internet on its own. I think one approach would be to use a separate program (not IntelliJ) to automatically go to each website and copy the appropriate information into an excel document; then I could copy the file into my project each day before I run it. Something like that is what I have in mind, but I would appreciate some help if anyone knows which strategy I could use to move past this obstacle.
I've recently learned how to and created a GUI to navigate my program a little easier than through the console; therefore, my work ethic is not an barrier in this instance. I've taken one programming class in college and would consider myself an apprentice (one step above a novice).
You can use jsoup for scraping data from a website, Then you can use Apache POI to add it to an excel file.
Heres the website https://jsoup.org/
Heres a good tutorial about apache POI https://www.baeldung.com/java-microsoft-excel
I've made a code which displays an array which shows traffic lights flashing, should I save externally as script files or embed it into the HTML.
I also need to explain why I've done this.
Please I've got until over Christmas to finish this, I've looked everywhere and can't find much, so I'm turning to this where apparently experienced programmers are and who have done all this before.
Please don't close the question, I really need help. Thanks
What is the ultimate goal?
Code maintainability - use external script
Reuseability - use external script
Downloadtime/network i/o - a bit better if embedded.
Want the HTML/CSS redone by designer later - use external script
The more I think of it, the more reasons I see to put it extern.
And tge one I listed pro embed - that's nullified at second load (script from cache)
Revering to the MVC-Pattern I'd put it in an extra file. It's just better structured and better to read.
Another advantage is that you can reuse your code. Like if you'd have a second page which uses this code you would just need the include it there, too.
I have really low knowledge on Java and JasperReports, barely used those to play around, nothing too serious. A friend of mine has been trying to get someone to develop him an application that will generate PDFs with information from an access database for each of his clients, however, after 6 months and 7 developers who ditched him, he has found none, so he asked me if I could help him to which I said I'd give it a try.
What I have been able to do so far:
So far I've managed to successfully (Everything has been done separately, I have like 8 projects in total so far):
Use Jaspersoft Studio/iReport to create a single PDF with the required client information on each sheet.
Create a separate JasperReports project with a input field to get a pdf with a single client information.
Create a Java App with a JFrame to launch the report generation.
Create a Java App to connect to the access database through ucanaccess and validate the search criteria
Questions:
Now, after a few days on Google up and down I havnt managed to successfully achieve everything that I'd like to achieve, and I'd love if someone could either point me into good noob-proof guides or (if willing) provide a noob-proof answer so I can continue to move on.
Create a Java App where you can choose to generate all client's report or a single report for a specified client (I am assuming this isn't too complicated since it'd just be a matter to embed both Jasper reports into the java app), however I'd need to pass the input value into jasper report field to generate a single report (Not sure if this one was clear enough), and run the query for the data-set based on that field's value.
Ideally though not highly needed, pass yet another variable as a field to set a date range.
Since this is being done on a MS Access Database -*.accdb- (Don't blame me, I've been telling him to move to MySQL/SQL for quite a while now), I'd love to know if its possible to make JasperReports do a query based on a UCanAccess JDBC connection (Tried a few options, none worked).
Finally, I need to generate in the report a date range (Something like: "Between 1/Jan/2014 and 1/Feb/2014")
I feel like I've made a decent amount of progress so far, but since I am no pro on either JasperReports nor Java, I am getting stuck in a point where more knowledge is required to create a more decent and practical piece of software and I'd love if someone could point me into a better direction (Either if something is impossible or just a few links to help me get thru)
-Remeber to add ucanaccess jar and all dependencies jars in the Driver Classpath, while creating the Data Adapter
-You have to set Showschema=true:
e.g.
jdbc:ucanaccess://c:/db/database.accdb;Showschema=true
In this way Jasper Studio will be able to navigate the metadata of your database, and you'll find your tables under the PUBLIC schema.
Then you'll be able to create your reports as usual.
I will develop a game in java which is about chemistry experiments that include quizzes and lessons . I need to store only two things in my game which is
Score of the quiz
the experiments that the user finished in order to put some sign or change color or whatever to indicate that this one you have already finished it in the experiments menu
Do I need a database ? I read about XML and it used to store simple things . But as I far as I know that XML work with web and my game is offline, how am I going to use it in my case ?
Also , someone told that I can use simple text-based format . But how ?
If you're not planning on making the game online, then you don't 'need' to use a database. You can use an XML (which can be used offline as well as online), or you can use SQLite.
On the text based format thing, it might seem easier to use, but it will cause you trouble on the long run. My suggestion would be to go with XML.
You can learn about XML here as well as how to parse them.
XML should work fine and would probably be my approach to this problem. It's not tied specifically to the web. It's an extensible format for data that has many existing libraries in many different languages including java.
You also have other options like CSV files.
You can use a file-based local database like SQLite but it sounds like overkill for what you've described.
I have a application which is created on ZK Framework , i want to give user a functionality where user can open a saved file in edit mode and then again saved the changed in database can any one know which API can help me to do this?
You could use Google Apps to do so and set Google Docs to edit your DOC, PDF or even XLS extension files. For more help on setting it up, feel free to ask again. :)
The problem you're posing doesn't have a simple answer, unfortunately.
There are two general approaches you could take..
The low hanging fruit is to provide an interface for the user to download a file and upload it after they make edits using whichever editing software they choose / is appropriate.
The other approach would be to provide a GUI to edit files. Regardless of the web framework you are using, this is a daunting task to say the least. As #userRandom mentioned, this is a large part of what Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) is attempting to solve.. but even Google's solution is not perfect and very much a work in progress.
I would strongly suggest evaluating the scope of your project before proceeding.
If you choose to move forward, consider a simple solution that works for .txt files. Then, consider how you might handle .doc files. Then, PDF files, XLS files, etc.
Folks here will be able to answer specific questions.