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  • Author: Appian Corporation
  • Type: Plug-in (Function & Smart Service)
  • Support: This plug-in or utility is not supported by the author. The content is free to use with a licensed product, but it is made available as-is and Community supported.
  • Industry: All Industries
  • Compatible Version(s): 23.2+
  • First Released:
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  • Cost: Free
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Excel Tools

Overview

Provides the following custom smart services and functions for handling data in Excel.

Key Features & Functionality

Smart Services included are:

  • Merge Excel Documents
  • Import CSV to Database
  • Import Excel to Database
  • Load CSV to Database
  • Convert HTML to CSV  
  • Convert Excel to CSV
  • Encrypt Excel with Password

Functions included are:

  • Read Excel File Paged
  • Read Excel Cell by Name
  • Read Excel Cell by Number
  • Query Appian Logs
  • Export Datasubset to Base64
  • Validate Document Headers
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  • in reply to Mike Schmitt

    Hi,

    The latest version of excel tools is now live on the App market
    Release notes are as follows:
    2.2.7 Release Notes

    Functionality Updates:
    • The “Import Excel to DB” smart service no longer errors if no value is passed for the inputs “New
    • Columns” and “New Columns Values”
    • The “Import CSV to DB” smart service now returns a readable error message if there are extra blank
    • columns in the CSV file
    • The “Query Appian Logs” function no longer skips the first row of data is the input “hasHeader” is passed
    • as false
    • The “Convert Excel To CSV” smart service has been updated to utilize the inputs
    • “numberOfColumnsToReadInRow” and “rowNumberToReadFrom”
    Documentation updates:
    • Documentation has been re-added to the AppMarket listing
    • For “Import Excel to DB”, the accepted formats for dates and date times in the sheet are now clearly
    • documented
    • For “Import CSV to DB” and “Import Excel to DB”, the descriptions and example values for the smart
    • service inputs have been updated
    • For “Query Appian Logs”, the passing of inputs by order is explained and an example function call has
    • been added
  • in reply to johnh0008

    Hi,

    The latest version of excel tools is now live on the App market
    Release notes are as follows:
    2.2.7 Release Notes

    Functionality Updates:
    • The “Import Excel to DB” smart service no longer errors if no value is passed for the inputs “New
    • Columns” and “New Columns Values”
    • The “Import CSV to DB” smart service now returns a readable error message if there are extra blank
    • columns in the CSV file
    • The “Query Appian Logs” function no longer skips the first row of data is the input “hasHeader” is passed
    • as false
    • The “Convert Excel To CSV” smart service has been updated to utilize the inputs
    • “numberOfColumnsToReadInRow” and “rowNumberToReadFrom”
    Documentation updates:
    • Documentation has been re-added to the AppMarket listing
    • For “Import Excel to DB”, the accepted formats for dates and date times in the sheet are now clearly
    • documented
    • For “Import CSV to DB” and “Import Excel to DB”, the descriptions and example values for the smart
    • service inputs have been updated
    • For “Query Appian Logs”, the passing of inputs by order is explained and an example function call has
    • been added
  • in reply to Sidhant Behura

    Hi,

    The latest version of excel tools is now live on the App market
    Release notes are as follows:
    2.2.7 Release Notes

    Functionality Updates:
    • The “Import Excel to DB” smart service no longer errors if no value is passed for the inputs “New
    • Columns” and “New Columns Values”
    • The “Import CSV to DB” smart service now returns a readable error message if there are extra blank
    • columns in the CSV file
    • The “Query Appian Logs” function no longer skips the first row of data is the input “hasHeader” is passed
    • as false
    • The “Convert Excel To CSV” smart service has been updated to utilize the inputs
    • “numberOfColumnsToReadInRow” and “rowNumberToReadFrom”
    Documentation updates:
    • Documentation has been re-added to the AppMarket listing
    • For “Import Excel to DB”, the accepted formats for dates and date times in the sheet are now clearly
    • documented
    • For “Import CSV to DB” and “Import Excel to DB”, the descriptions and example values for the smart
    • service inputs have been updated
    • For “Query Appian Logs”, the passing of inputs by order is explained and an example function call has
    • been added
  • in reply to Steven Miccile

    Thanks for confirming - as far as I remember, I'd tried it both ways (i figured dictionary syntax wouldn't work but also didn't produce specific errors).  

    Also as a side note, Community doesn't seem to send any sort of notification of a reply here even though you had replied directly to me (this seems to hold true for any sort of comment activity within the App Market space).

  • in reply to April Schuppel

    Hi April.  When I execute the excel import task in my work flow, it errors out with the above mentioned error.  The error hints at the smart service not correctly reading the column names in the first row of the excel.  Similar to trying to run this query on a DB: select "" from [table].

  • in reply to johnh0011

    Hi - can you please provide some more context for when you're getting this error and what's not working?

  • in reply to Vadivelan

    Hi - this should work with any supported databases.

  • Is there an issue with the excel import smart service in 19.4?  Was working fine in 18.2.  I get the following error:  ???ORA-01741: illegal zero-length identifier
    ???

  • in reply to Sanchita Gupta

    - Added LOAD CSV to DB Smart Service - fast CSV import for MySQL database that are not hosted on Appian Cloud

    Does that mean Load CSV to DB Smart Service will work only for databases that are not hosted on Appian Cloud? 

  • in reply to Mike Schmitt

    So the first issue here is the syntax for calling the function. You cannot use keyword syntax when calling a plugin, you must use position syntax: docs.appian.com/.../Expressions.html

    An example syntax would be queryAppianLogs("select * from login-audit",null,{"String", "String", "String","String","String","String"},null,false) to fill out the inputs for sqlStatement, subFolder, columnTypes, timestampFormat, and hasHeader respectively.

    Testing using this syntax produces more expected results however passing false for hasHeader seems to skip the first row of data in the file so we will look into fixing that. In the meantime, the Log Reader plugin can also pull csv data.

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