How to loop through columns in an excel row

[pooja.pakanati]

Hey Guys,

I am new to UI Path and would like to know how to achieve the following requirement.

1. Loop through all the columns in a an excel row.
   I have to loop through all the columns in a row and read page count and split PDF
   My data is like the following:
   Ticket no A B C
   1234 1-4 5-6 8-19

[Srini84 (Srinivas Kadamati)]

@pooja.pakanati

Welcome to forums

For looping through excel columns

Use Read Range activity->output vairable datatable

You can use For Each activity and write as Datatable.Columns
Inside Foreach you can place message box / write line, so that you can get the output as the column name

and what do you mean by page count and split PDF ?

give me details on that

Thanks

[pooja.pakanati]

Table1.xlsx (8.9 KB)
Thank u for the reply. As you can see in the attached Excel sheet, I will have a PDF document for each ticket number mentioned in the Excel Sheet. I will have to loop through all the rows and read page count from each column and split the PDF.
But i am not able to read the page ranges from the excel(as they are columns and not rows).

[pooja.pakanati]

I followed as per your instructions but i can read is the first row.

OUTPUT.

TicketNumber
Doc_Type_2
Doc_Type_3
Doc_Type_4
Doc_Type_5

[Srini84 (Srinivas Kadamati)]

@pooja.pakanati

Are the columns are fixed?

Then use For Each row activity and give the split range as below
row(“Doc_Type_2”).ToString etc.,

You can call the range directly

Hope this may help you

Thanks

[pooja.pakanati]

Yes the columns are fixed.

I am able to split as per the page range in columns. But I have to use Extract PDF Page Range activity for each column. Is there a way i could use one and loop all the values?

[Srini84 (Srinivas Kadamati)]

@pooja.pakanati

Check is your columns have the duplicate or it’s by mistake?

because the column name Doc_Type_3 is duplicating

Also you can keep a For Each activity inside the For Each row activity, as below

and in range write as row(item.ToString)

Hope this may help you

Thanks

[pooja.pakanati]

Hi,

That was by mistake. Columns are unique here. I tried the following logic:

1. Put all the page ranges in a list and tried to loop through them.
   PageCountList =New List(of string) from {pageRange1, pageRange2,pageRange3,pageRange4}
   
   

But the issue i face here is… when any column has null value, the values are getting mixed up…
How could I check if column name is “XXX”, and the value of that column is not empty, then split PDF and name the PDF as “TicketNumber_XXX.pdf”.
Please help!

[Srini84 (Srinivas Kadamati)]

@pooja.pakanati

You can use if condition for that

item.toString <> " " and Item.ToString = “XXX”

Hope this may help you

Thanks

[pooja.pakanati]

Thank you for your help! I tried this way and it helped!

[Srini84 (Srinivas Kadamati)]

@pooja.pakanati

I suggest to click mark as solution to close this thread and if you feel you are struck some where then suggest to start a new thread instead of continuing the old thread

Happy Automation

Thanks