Parse File Action
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parse File Action Node
The purpose of this node is to convert data found within a file into a dataset.
The files that we can convert are:-
- RTF Table
- RTF
- Text
- HTML
- HTML Table
- CSV Table
Parsing HTML or RTF Tables
Once we have chosen the type of file we are going to parse, and the url we can hit populate.
This pre parses the table in the file and returns a list of available cells.
You then probably need to delete the cells you aren't interested in, along with the cells that contain data as opposed to the cells that contain fields.
We can then get the parser to search for a cell by giving it either a location, such as pt(0,0) or text to search for, such as TEAM NAME.
When it finds this cell it will then return:-
Cell Above
Cell Right
Cell Below
Cell Left
Chars At Cell
Given the the rtf file we have below, let us say we want to extract the 2 Contact Telephone Numbers, the Team Name and the Team Location.
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Notice that "Repeat" is selected for "telephone Numbers"
This is because we know there is more than one telephone number and so we'd like Presence to keep returning them.
By editing the repeat options, we can relate each telephone number to a new row in the datatable or a new column (in the form of TEL_1,TEL_2 etc).
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Here are the results
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Chars Before
Chars After
Chars Between
Chars At Positions
Explanation of Search Type options
- Cell Above
- Cell Right
- Cell Below
- Cell Left
- Chars Before
- Chars After
- Chars Between
- Chars At Positions
- Chars At Cell
- Chars On Line Before
- Chars On Line After
- Chars On Line Between