ExcelRange input for Expressions?

RE: ExcelRange input for Expressions?

Christiaan Post — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 05:59:43 GMT

Hi Wayne,

Thanks now it's working, it Seems I had the wrong value I needed only this one "excelRange1.Value"

Thanks

//Christiaan

RE: ExcelRange input for Expressions?

Wayne Dickerson — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 21:56:55 GMT

Hi Christiaan,

I have attached an excel file and a dgn with the example.

You may have to re-link the excel. I had is located in C:\Temp folder.

The file has 2 examples, first(in blue) just a single series taken from the values in excel.

The second (in orange) uses a series function but has a slider so you can select different rows in excel. Starting from 0(Row 1 in the example excel) up to 9.

hope that helps

Thanks

Wayne

communities.bentley.com/.../Series.xlsx communities.bentley.com/.../Excel_2D00_Series.dgn

RE: ExcelRange input for Expressions?

Christiaan Post — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 08:00:08 GMT

Hi Wayne,

If it's possible to give me an example file this will be helpful for me.

//Christiaan

christiaan.postATSweco.nl

RE: ExcelRange input for Expressions?

Wayne Dickerson — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 06:30:32 GMT

Hi Christiaan,

I think the error is in the way you are trying to target the data from excel.

I notice you don't have anything in the excelRange2 RangeAddress.

maybe this should be "A3:C3"

Then you could update the Series to Series(excelRange2.Value[0],excelRange2.Value[1],excelRange2.Value[2])

I think of the excel node as just grabbing the data from excel and placing it into a list or an array.

In the case of "A3:C3" it would be a simple list.

For example it might return from excel {1,10,2}

Then you target it with the index of each item in the list, for example number 1 would be index 0, number 10 would be index 1 and number 2 would be index 2.

Hope that helps.

Maybe I could send you an example file for you to reference.

Thanks

Wayne

RE: ExcelRange input for Expressions?

Christiaan Post — Tue, 26 Nov 2019 19:47:25 GMT

Hi Wayne,

Just keep struggling with the range, I think I do something wrong or I put it in the wrong fields

Try to make this series form my excel sheet.

Series(excelRange2.Value[A3],excelRange2.Value[B3],excelRange2.Value[C3])

RE: ExcelRange input for Expressions?

Wayne Dickerson — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 09:12:24 GMT

Hi Christiaan,

A couple of things I can think of.
In the expression I believe you need to target you want the value.
so you can put in excelRange1.Value.

That however would not work the way you would like if you have mixed content like Series(x,x,x). It will he returned as a string from excel.
I recall there was a way to remove the string from mixed content but I can’t recall at the moment. ToInt works for values but not in mixed I believe.

However you have all the information you need in excel. Columns A,B,C has the building blocks for the series function.
so you could just use those values directly.

Series(excelRange1.Value[0],excelRange1.Value[1],excelRange1.Value[2])

That should do the job if you wanted a single Series from an excel range say ”A1:C1”

You could also skip the expression node as well but sometimes it is nice to see the values :)

hope that helps

Wayne