I'm not sure if this is the exact place for this question, but I saw that other Altium questions had been posted here.
My team is using Altium to work on this project, but not all of us are familiar with Altium. In fact, really only one team member has the skills to do the bulk of the work.
Setting aside the issues of cross-training, etc., the rest of us want to do our best to further the work. To that end, can Altium accept CSV files? Like, if we had a CSV of the BoM for a PCB, could we import that so that we don't have to manually input all of the desired information into Altium?
Additionally, are there other areas where we could use CSVs? Like, could we import a schematic that was generated by another piece of software?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I suspect you cannot use CSV files without scripting. However, there are quite a many components available. Unfortunately, they are not consistent, and some modifications are needed before saving them to your own library.
You can import schematics (and layouts) from some other sw vendors. File>Import Wizard. Some of them require external license, and format can be fixed. Check Extensions and Updates to make sure you have needed plugins available.
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I have literally hundreds of slides created with python-pptx. Many of these slides have charts I would like to use in a docx file. So what I would like to do is use python-docx to import these slides/charts into a docx file. Is that possible?
No, not with the current python-pptx or python-docx APIs.
Such a thing is possible of course, since the Word application will allow you to "paste" charts from PowerPoint and in fact the charts themselves are specified in DrawingML, an XML vocabulary that is shared between PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
But to make this work with Python, you'd have to dig quite deep into the internals of both python-pptx and python-docx (although their architectures are much the same). You would probably also need to learn more about the respective XML vocabularies than you really wanted to know. So you might want to consider alternate approaches such as using win32com support for this sort of thing, especially if you are running on Windows and this is a one-time job and does not need to be hosted on a server for ongoing use.
If you thought you did want to tackle it, a good first step might be to inspect the XML related to a PowerPoint chart (located in both the slide and the chart-parts of the PPTX package) and also inspect the corresponding XML that appears in a Word (.docx) file that includes a chart. That will give you an idea of what needs to come over from the PPTX package, what transformations it may need to undergo (namespace changes perhaps) and where it would need to be added into the DOCX package, including updating relationship files and perhaps updating certain ID values to make them unique in the target package.
I need to push an object to prismic.io. For example, I want to send a simple object like a string to the CMS.
I don't see any hints in the documentation that can help me achieve this. I'm using angular 7.
I already made my custom type, I can get the data I created with the CMS with prismatic predicates but can't send any data.
(full disclosure I'm working at Prismic ;) ) So the answer is: you can import data into Prismic. But it's not through a write API.
We want to introduce this at some point, but we also believe we can bring better solutions then just a write API for specific cases (like importing legacy content, connecting Prismic with an external data base, or with a translation service, etc.)
So our plan is to solve the most common use-cases of a "write API" in a more adapted/cleaner way, and then provide a write API afterwards.
Two solutions were already implemented:
1/ If you're looking to migrate existing content from another system into Prismic, you should check out our Import/Export feature: https://intercom.help/prismicio/import-export
2/ If you have content that lives in another system or in a custom API, it is possible to integrate this with Prismic using our Integration Fields feature: https://intercom.help/prismicio/integration-fields
3/ If what you want to do is not covered by these two solutions please let me know, that would be super helpful!
no you can not do a write api. Its a read system, the only way to input is via their writing room or import (which is in writing room as well)
My basic problem is finding a way to import from an ARIS model to Rational System Architect. From what I understand from searching the IBM website and Google, it looks like it does not support loading 3rd party tools from XML (although the article is 5 years old and I cannot find anything newer). I have the export of ARIS and the DTD file to go along with it. However when I attempt to import into System Architect I get the following error...
The input contained no valid objects.
Which in my opinion makes sense - if its not setup to import from other products. But with that being said, does anyone know a way to achieve this? Searching online has yielded very little or poor results thus far.
Update - As an additional thought, I have been looking into DDL files. System architect seems to say it will work with them, however I have not been able to find out anything about how to create one using ARIS, or how they are used in general. This may end up being the solution, but sadly I am not well versed in this area yet.
The answer seems to have come down to two options.
Use a 3rd party tool to mediate the process, and convert it. Basically there is a number of other tools out there (such as ToolBus - which is the only one I found that worked for me) that convert from various applications to a single common model. From there it can be exported back to any application.
Depending on the models, the newer versions of SA can import BPMN models directly. Mind this only works for those - nothing else.
I have a parameter and, on F4, we can choose the directory. I'm trying to figure out how to choose a folder and read the content of all the files in it (the files are in .CSV) to an internal table. I think I have to use TMP_GUI_DIRECTORY_LIST_FILES function. Hope I'm explaining myself. Thank you.
You'll have to do this manually: first read the list of files, the go through each file and process its contents. There may be some odd function modules to read CSV files, but be aware that many of them are broken - for example, they just clip the lines that exceed a certain length. Therefore I won't recommend any of them - personally, I'd implement the CSV import part myself.
If you have access to the transaction KCLJ in your system you could analyze the coding behind it. This tool has an option to interpret CSV files so you might find interesting function modules that might help you with your tasks.
EDIT: I looked at it very quickly and the piece of coding you could reuse is reconvert_format from include RKCDFILEINCFOR. An example how to call it is located starting from line 128 in the same include.
I need to figure out what is going on inside a client's .ppt files. What is a good way to get started?
My eventual hope is to convert it to HTML. But if I just export the .ppt to HTML, I get a lot of images (as opposed to text), which is not a Good Thing.
EDIT: software that automatically converts .ppt to HTML would be terrific, provided that it preserves as much information as possible in text format. If that doesn't exist, the next best thing would be to understand the innards of the .ppt and write my own code to do a partial conversion.
EDIT: I used OfficeConvert as recommended by Michiel Leenaars. It got me text all right. My 50-page, 8MB test file turned into 40MB of text. The fact that I got text is good. The fact that the amount went way up is moving in the wrong direction. And there is an awful lot of repetition in there. The word "style" appeared 410815 times; the word "draw" appeared 351229 times.
I think a safe way would be to use OfficeConvert to automatically convert to ODF programmatically with Microsoft Office. Run it with /? to get help. There are some dependencies (see below).
Then use a good ODF library like lpod to look inside it.
You can view some interesting code examples here.
Dependencies:
Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x86)
Primary Interop Assemblies for Office 2007 or Office 2010 (whichever you are using).
I like the Aspose products. (I'm not associated with them other than as a customer.) I've used the PPT one specifically to write code that pokes around in the insides of a PPT. Overkill if you just want to convert it to HTML, but invaluable for the sorts of things I use it for.
If you know Java, Apache has the POI project which lets you take a look at the inners of a PPT project. Could get all the info you want about the project (images, text) and then convert it to html however you like.
Its free too.