James, That's if you want to use an RGW. If you just want to import a file use GATEWAY IMPORT CSV .vFileName CREATE CSVImportTable
In my case, the excel sheet always has the same columns but the rows can change. Jan -----Original Message----- From: "Jim Belisle" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:31:25 -0500 Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: CHECK FOR VALUES Jan, I In the Help section it states: The import must be performed once using the graphic user interface and saved using the "Specifications.." button. The specifications will be stored in a file with the .RGW file extension. One of the specs is the ending row. Is this not necessary when setting up a spec file? James Belisle From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jan johansen Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 7:14 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: CHECK FOR VALUES James, It's still pretty early for me. Why does it matter how many rows? Jan -----Original Message----- From: "Jim Belisle" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:09:40 -0500 Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: CHECK FOR VALUES At the present time, I use a specification file in Gateway to import into my tables from an EXCEL file. If I go to a TEMP table scenario, I would like to use code to do the import, rather than having the GATEWAY box popup. The problem I foresee is in the number of rows imported since it is almost always different. All the other items will remain the same. I know I can create a var at the start of the code asking for the number of rows to import. How would I go about using the spec file but changing the number of rows imported? Here is the code thus far: (ask for the number of rows to import and put into var) GATEWAY IMPORT XLS + Workinfo.xls APPEND + tworkinfoday + SHEET_INDEX 0 + OPTION SPECIFICATION_FILE_NAME worktemp.RGW James Belisle From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary Wendike Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 10:39 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: CHECK FOR VALUES I agree with Jan on using the temp table approach. I also load many files from xls, csv and access format a day and use a temp file to process, check and adjust the data before I ever load to the permanent table. I never load directly into my permanent table. Gary From: [email protected] [mailto: [email protected]] On Behalf Of jan johansen Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 3:50 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: CHECK FOR VALUES Jim, I think you should import the XLS into a TEMP table to do your evaluations on. If the evaluations pass, APPEND to the permanent table. Jan -----Original Message----- From: "Jim Belisle" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:25:44 -0500 Subject: [RBASE-L] - CHECK FOR VALUES Everyday we import into RBASE to files from EXCEL. One is a file with the time in and out for the whole day. (one per day per employee) The other has punches for specific work done for the day. (many punches per day) Certain employees, because their job is the same each day fail to punch in for the second file. What I want to do is check the excel file as it imports into RBASE for those employees and add a row with specific information. Any ideas as to the best way to accomplish this would be appreciated. James Belisle
