I was messing around with data connections and importing stuff from a network in real time. Cool stuff. But everytime I open ANY excel worksheet on this computer, it tells me "file cannot be found" and refers to one of the first files I used for this. this happens no matter what workbook I am opening.
When I click data --> connections its empty.
With Excel 2010 a yellow warning bar is shown when opening a file with data connection. I don't want to show this warning to other users who will be opening the file, especially when they won't be able to update anything since the original data is on my computer. The logical way would be to remove or disable the connections before sending the file out. But when removing the data connections through Connection window all the pivot tables are converted to static tables, which is not acceptable. Is there any other solution to this? Maybe use a macro?
PS: I know that these warnings can be turned off though Trust Center, but I am not interested in changing these settings for other users.
If I run this vba it removes the external data connection to the pivot table:
ActiveWorkbook.Connections("EXAMPLE").Delete
When I attempt to drill down into the pivot table it states the data connection was removed.
Is there a way to remove the data connection but preserve the data in the pivot cache?
It's probably possible to store the data somewhere else in the document and link the pivot table up to it but that seems cumbersome.
I have a VBA application that uses data from a sheet in the excel workbook. It accesses this data with an ADO connection. On workbook open I open this connection--I declare it as public variable so I can continue to use it throughout the session. My problem is that the connection really doesn't ever dissappear. I have the problem that once I close the workbook, the project still exists in the VB Editor. How do I get rid of the connection? I am stuck because I declared it as public? I want to keep it open, rather than opening every time I want to use it, because it is faster to keep the connection open.
My code is below.
Option Explicit 'requires variable declaration
'declare global connection
Public cn As ADODB.Connection
Sub OpenDBConnection()
'open db connection
'this happens on workbook open
If cn Is Nothing Then
Set cn = New ADODB.Connection
With cn
.Provider = "Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0"
.ConnectionString = "Data Source=" & WCHSBook.FullName & ";" & _
"Extended Properties=""Excel 8.0;HDR=Yes;"""
.Open
End With
End If
End Sub
I created a slick little excel sheet with the data coming in automatically via Access query. It has been working fine for months. Now all of the sudden there are a bunch of cells with missing data. The weird part is it's not as if whole columns are missing data, more like 90% missing. When I go to Access and run the query all cells are populated as the should be. There have been no changes to the query at all during this time.
btw...I am running Office 2010
A web query I am trying to use to bring an online data table into my worksheet is broken. Now, instead of returning the data table nicely into my worksheet, it imports the code of the webpage, instead, and turns my worksheet into a mess.
The query used to work but there was recently an "upgrade" to the program that populates the web table and the query no longer works and just returns the code for the page, instead. I can see the html code for the table in all of the code it returns but I really need the table to import cleanly into excel.
I can't talk to the people who changed the web program.
I'm having problems with date parameter for a web connection. I can provide the parameter and type the parameter via message box ... but when I want to reference a cell the query errors out.
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1. I would like to be able to group by month but the grouping fiction is grayed out
2. How can we convert the timestamp to only date format. I am able to select only Date for that column but it seems that it keeps the time, even though it only shows the date in the pivot table the bar above shows date and time.
I have an Excel workbook that has a data connection to a Sharepoint List. I have 4 columns showing the quaterly status of a project. I want to apply conditional formatting based on the value in the column. I have 5 possible choices so I have to use VBA code to accomplish this because of the limit of 3 option in Excel. I am using this
Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range)
Dim rng As Range
Set rng = Intersect(Target, Range("X:AA"))
If rng Is Nothing Then
Exit Sub
Else
Dim cl As Range
For Each cl In rng
Select Case cl.Text
Case "1"
cl.Interior.ColorIndex = 4
Case "2"
cl.Interior.ColorIndex = 6
Case "3"
cl.Interior.ColorIndex = 3
Case "4"...............................
if it's possible to break the connection between a pivot table and the data source whilst still maintaining the data in the table? I could try copy/paste special/paste values but thought there migth be a 'proper' way to preserve the data.
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For this example let's use May (C3) and 2013 (C4)
C3 and C4 are used as parameters for the SQL query, so if I change the month to January and the Year to 2010, data is refreshed to bring in that data.
Works smashingly.
I then want to add 11 more sheets (12 total), so each sheet is a month. The value in cell C3 on each sheet will be the month name.
If I just copy this sheet 11 times, Excel adds 11 extra data connections; 1 for each sheet. As the query in each sheet needs to be exactly the same, I don't want this. I want the 12 sheets to use the same data connection, only with the specified parameters at the sheet level.
Otherwise, if I need to add or remove a column, or change a column name, rather than just doing it once, I'd have to do it 12 times.
This can't be right, surely, as that would be the most ridiculous design flaw I've ever seen in a piece of software. How can having the same query 12 times be a good thing?
I'm a bit concerned that googling 'excel data connections multiple sheets' always wants to be 'excel multiple data connections one sheet' - I want 'excel multiple sheets one data connection'
I am simply trying to have some code that would allow me to run relatively simple SQL Queries on Excel Data. This data however will be in a table format within Excel and I will only be needing to query on table at a time; meaning that I don't need relational database features or SQL Joins at all. At most, the SQL Statements will involve WHERE and SORT statements. So, my method is relatively simple:
1. Select an Excel Range (The table being Queried)
2. Provide an SQL Statement
3. Provide an Output range to print the results
After my recent research, I concluded that ODBC/ADODB was the best route. I am very new to ODBC Connections though. Basically, I just set up an ODBC Connection and DataSource using the Control Panel/Administrative Tools. After that, following some templates of others I constructed the following
Sub getData(SQL As String, outRange As Range)
Dim conn As Variant
Dim rs As Variant
Dim cs As String
Dim outCell As Range
Set outCell = outRange.Range("a1")
Dim row As Integer
Dim col As Integer
Set conn = CreateObject("adodb.connection")
Set rs = CreateObject("adodb.recordset")
cs = "DRIVER=Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls);UID = admin;UserCommitSync = Yes;Threads = 3;SafeTransactions = 0;ReadOnly = 1;PageTimeout = 5;MaxScanRows = 8;MaxBufferSize = 2048;FIL=excel 8.0;DriverId = 790;DefaultDir=F:2008Cell PhoneCall Details;DBQ=" & ThisWorkbook.Path & "" & ThisWorkbook.Name...............................
I have an excel table that connects to an external sharepoint site.
When I refresh (via external data connection), the "start date" and "end date" column formats change. The only way I can correct this is to copy those columns to notepad, and then paste them back into the spreadsheet.
I have several calculated cells based upon these date fields. Once refreshed, the data is incorrect until I copy and paste those dates as stated above.
This removes the functionality of simply "refreshing" the data resulting in a manual process.
I've about 10 pivot tables in Excel that are populated via an External Query link to Access. In each case I have pre-written views with all the columns I need so that the query can just pick them up. Nine of the ten queries work perfectly, but one doesn't - reporting "Too Few Parameters - Expected 1" when I try and click on the "Return Data to Excel" in the import wizard.
I can see the column headers in Excel to select; so I'm assuming that it can parse the SQL but no results are being returned. Just to confirm though - results are returned (>8000 of them) in Access.
SQL code below:
Code:
SELECT z.pathdurationhours AS PathHours, Count(z.pathdurationhours) AS Paths,
Count(z.pathdurationhours)/(select count(*) from (select [activity date],
[conversion ID], count(*) from tbl_dfa_p2cdata group by [activity date], [conversion ID]) ) AS PCT
FROM (SELECT a.[activity date], a.[conversion ID], val( max(a.[interaction time])-min(a.[interaction time]) )
*24 AS PathDurationHours FROM tbl_dfa_P2CData AS a WHERE a.[interaction time]
"" GROUP BY a.[activity date], a.[conversion ID]) AS z
GROUP BY z.pathdurationhours;
I'm trying to build a workbook (2007) with multiple worksheets where each worksheet corresponds to a different query/dataset pulling data from the one database.
I would have expected that you could define the one data connection object and then specify the SQL that each worksheet table will invoke. The apparent structure of having the query coupled to the connection object is confounding me. I'm therefore trying to set up a separate connection for each of the worksheets and Excel is getting tied up in knots.
I open a spreadsheet or workbook that has links to other workbooks I am notified by the message bar that content has been blocked. I click Options > Enable this content > OK. Even if I don't make any changes I'm prompted to save changes when I close the file. If I hit Yes or if I hit No, I will still be prompted to enable content in the message bar the next time I open the same file.
I have changed the External Content settings in the Trust Center to "Enable all data connections (not recommended)" and "Enable automatic update for all workbook links (not recommended)" but I still get the messages.
My Message Bar is set to "Show the message bar in all applications when content is blocked" because I read on Microsoft KB that the other option of "never show information about blocked content" will still block the content, just not tell you about it, which doesn't fix my issue.
The files I'm opening and the files linked to and from them are all on the same shared drive on a file server in the office. Is there a way to tell Office '07 that our file drive is a trusted source by default?
How to convert "Excel table" to a range without loosing data connection to access?
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I have 4 workbooks, all of them contain data that is managed by other teams at my company. I need to take all of this data, organize, and concatenate it into one sheet for myself, that I will then reference in other workbooks to various OTHER departments in our company that need the data for certain projects. I have the organization laid out in a lot of very complex formulas so that most of this is automated, and not manual.
I need a solution that can pull data from the 4 workbooks without locking them for use, to allow me to keep my document open all the time, and they can update theirs at their leisure. Everything works fine, until I hit the refresh button. Once this is hit, all of the linked documents are locked and cannot be opened, even in "Read Only" mode. Once I close the master document, the files are free to be opened. I know a workaround for now is that i can not "refresh" the document, but rather close and re open it for changes.
Some steps I have already tried :
1. Create an intermediary file that no one uses, and can be locked all day without a problem. This doesn't work for me since the intermediary file needs to be open to refresh, which locks the original source doc, leaving me in the same place as before.
2.Modify the connection string to display "Mode=Read;" instead of "Mode=Share Deny Read"
3.Create a new connection with "Read" only selected in the Advanced Tab
to retrieve the data from MS access table in to the DB Grid at user form through MS SQL Query.
I am trying to use ADO for the same.
i have two workbooks that use a identical worksheet which is called products (this sheet contains rows of over 19000 products ). The problem is i cannot merge the two workbooks together because they are just too big in size.
Also these workbooks have similar userforms and macros that rely on this product databases (worksheets).
My problem is when i add a new product to of one product databases i have to also add it to the second product database again. Is there a way where i can update both worksheets together without opening both workbooks.
I have three userforms that rely on this worksheet from both workbooks:
frmNewProduct - To add a new product to the worksheet.
frmProductUpdate - To edit, replace or delete products in the worksheet.
frmSearch - To search for products inside the worksheet.
I have also got other define names, worksheets and formulas that rely on these product database worksheets.
I'm trying to connect to SAP R/3, and I think I'm not sure which references (Tools --> References) I'm supposed have checked.
All I want to do for now is the following:
Dim sapConn As Object
Set sapConn = CreateObject("SAP. Functions")
Unfortunately, I am getting a "Run-time error '-2147024770 (8007007e)': Automation error. The specified module could not be found."
I have read somewhere random on the internet that I should add "SAP:Remote Function Call: COM Support 1.0 Type Library" which links to the SAPGui Provided library librfc32.dll. However, this alone doesn't seem to work...
I have a series of external database connections that I run in Excel, connecting to a Server based DB and running some SELECT statements. (ingres). We may have up to dozen of client machines accessing the ingres DB at any time. All is good at this point but when excel goes to INSERT some calculated data back to the main database, it appears that my Excel spreadsheet connection is locking the database when it connects, keeping other people from using their client connections.
first question: Does anyone know if the connection excel uses to run sql statements via external database connection will indeed prevent other users from connecting to the main database?
second question: if so, is there a setting or something that can make excel more "passive"?
This file connects to a weather API. The laptop I am using connects through a VPN connection. For some reason whenever I am on the VPN if I try to refresh the information I will get an error and the macro will fault out. Other than that the macro works perfectly fine.
Attached is the file in question : Weather Forecast Spreadsheet Draft V12.xlsm
When debugging the error goes to:
How can I place in an error management instead of the code just getting blocked out.
i have a ADO Connection. My query is like this:
select [C1] from [values$]
It works, but my problem is to write this values.
Why?
Cause i work with my workbook open (not that from connection) and i have something like 55,000 rows to change value. A complex range:
D2,D11:D12,D14:D20,D32,D42,D52,D62,D72,D82,D92,D101:D102,D104:D112...
I have a loop for each cell in this range, but this process is very slow.
Imagine:
For Each rng In rng
rng.Value = objRecordset(0)
objRecordset.MoveNext
Next rng
55,000? So slow...
I saw something about QueryTable,
Sub WebQuery()
Dim strSearch As String
strSearch = "abc"
With ActiveSheet.QueryTables.Add(Connection:= _
"URL;http://www.xyz.com/&=" & strSearch & "", _
Destination:= Range("A1"))
.Name = "search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=" & strSearch & ""
.FieldNames = True
.RowNumbers = False
.FillAdjacentFormulas = False
.PreserveFormatting = False
.RefreshOnFileOpen = False
.BackgroundQuery = True
.RefreshStyle = xlInsertDeleteCells
.SavePassword = False
.SaveData = True
.AdjustColumnWidth = True
.RefreshPeriod = 0
.WebSelectionType = xlAllTables
.WebFormatting = xlWebFormattingAll
.WebPreFormattedTextToColumns = True
.WebConsecutiveDelimitersAsOne = True
.WebSingleBlockTextImport = False
.WebDisableDateRecognition = False
.Refresh BackgroundQuery:=False
End With
End Sub...
I'm trying to run som e query using VBA. How can I open a database connection to mySQL?
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