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    Question Excel Manual report updating on demand?

    Hello,

    Looking for opinions. We track on time delivery for our customers. We typically run one report at the beginning of the day so that we can track the transaction throughout the day. We have to send out the updated report at various times throughout the day and alert the customers if there is anything that is going to be late.

    I see a terrible inefficiency in updating the report throughout the day. We already have this data in our system, but as soon as we export the initial report we're locked in with static data. Throughout the day we will find the transaction ID that we wish to update on the report, then look it up in our record systems to get the updated information that we're looking for, then type that information manually into the report.

    I'm looking for a way to enhance the process. I thought about exporting multiple reports throughout the day instead of just once in the system and then using macros to reformat the data. I've also thought about getting database access and linking the excel sheet with out database then we could just hit the refresh button throughout the day.


    What're your thoughts/suggestions?

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    Re: Excel Manual report updating on demand?

    There are many ways to do this. Without knowing your system hard to recommend which route is best suited to your need.

    1. Have scheduled report run on your system. Send email with attachment to specific address. Have job/flow that captures attachment and deposits to designated location (network drive, or OneDrive etc). Then use PowerQuery to merge and transform data. This is suitable, on some 3rd party vendor managed system that you can't get API/db access to.

    2. If you can get db access, use PQ to query data using native query statements (make use of parameter or IN (list) statement as needed). Transform and report.

    3. If API is present, use PQ -> From Web -> Advanced to get info leveraging API. Keep in mind to do all necessary query string construction within same query (in M) to avoid Formula Firewall issue.

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    Re: Excel Manual report updating on demand?

    Hi,
    My first idea is if you have the data in your system why not just a query to that system that updates the Excel file on demand?
    You can achieve this by just recording a macro that retrieves data an places it in a worksheet, you can even tell it where you want each field.
    Choose to either refresh on open or you add a button to force the data refresh.
    You haven't told us what system the source system is but I'm sure you know

    Give this a thought
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    Re: Excel Manual report updating on demand?

    You see more minds similar ideas

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