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Latigresa
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I have an excel spreadsheet that changes from month to month. In this spreadsheet I have policy numbers I need to grab and check to see if another table has them Is there any way to convert this excel spreadsheet automatically every month and run the fex to compare the poicy numbers? Right now I am maually inputting all the policies myself.

Thank you in advance for any and all help..

God Bless...

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Francis Mariani
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Latigresa, how about saving a hold file containing the same information as the spreadsheet - then you would have the data readily available every month.


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Latigresa
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It's a huge database and they perfer we only give them the policy number that do exist in the table. :-( I thought about that too but they want less work time out of this.


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Darin Lee
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Here are a couple of ideas.

Save/Export the spreadsheet as a CSV or flat file and then create a master to read it. From there, you can join or match to get what you need.

You could also just export the list of policy numbers to a flat file and then use WHERE fieldname IN FILE (if it's not too big - there are limits to the size of the external file. the IF syntax has higher limits).

You can also set up the spreadsheet as an ODBC data source (if you're just using DevStudio - or you're licensed for an ODBC adapter on your server) and then it can read the spreadsheet without having to export/convert anything.


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Brian Suter
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BID and Devstudio have an upload data file facility that converts an Excel file to a CSV and makes a master file... very handy when the server is on Unix.


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Latigresa
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I created a HTML launch page for them to input the policy number themselves and check the database for now. :-) I'm going to get with the lady that runs the query where she gets the policy numbers to begin with and see if I am able to use that instead of the final excel sheet.


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