Applescript in Automator - Loops and Variables

Hi to everyone!
I'm trying to create an Automation with a Loop action in which workflow there is an Applescript Action too. What I need to do and I couldn't find anywhere on the net is how to make a variable increase in 1 each times it makes a loop. I will try to explain it again, in case it's not clear.
First Action
Applescript
N=1
Second Action
Loop
So each time it loops, the N variable increases 1 number. First loop, N=1, second loop N=2, third loop N=3 and so on.
Any ideas.
Thank you!

well, it's easy enough to wrap a one-shot applescript in a repeat loop, but...
the Get Text From Webpage action is not a script - it's a small cocoa plugin for automator. There's no direct way to get webpages from applescript. normally you use applescript to fetch them in Safari and then read the source from there. however, if you want to do it directly you can use the following:
set webpageText to do shell script "curl http://www.weppage.com"
All together it would look something like:
set webList to {"http://www.weppage1.com", "http://www.weppage2.com", "http://www.weppage3.com"}
repeat with thisURL in webList
set webpageText to do shell script "curl " & thisURL
--process webpageText
end repeat

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Any help would be much appreciated! Thank you!
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First ask the person who gave this asignment as to why do you require two classes for this , you can have only the Sales.java class with main method in it . Anyways.
Let Main.java have a main method which instanciates a public class Sales and calls a method named say readVal() in Sales class.
In the readVal method of sales class define two arrays i.e ids and sales. Start prompting the user for inputting the id and sales and with user inputting values keep storing it in the respective arrays .. Limit this reading to just 5 i.e only 5 salesPerson.
Once both the arrays are populated, call another method of Sales class which will be used for all computations and output passing both the arrays.
In this new method say Compute() , read values from array and keep calculating total,average and whatever you want by adding steps in just this loop. You can do this in readval method too after reading the values but lets keep the calculation part seperate from input.
You must create the working application and a web page to provide the applications information (i.e., a page with links to the source code, the javadoc and an object model) to get full credit. You can use the example.html's from the last two labs to help you remember how to do this. I think this is ur personal stuff , but if you want to use web page , you probably will require to use servlet to read values from the html form passed to the server.

Bad query plan for self-referencing CTE view query and variable in WHERE clause. Is there way out or this is SQL Server defect?

Please help. Thank you for your time and expertise.
Prerequisites: sql query needs to be a view. Real view is more than recursion. It computes location path, is used in JOINs and returns this path.
Problem: no matter what I tried, sql server does not produce 'index seek' when using variable but does with literal.
See full reproduction code below.
I expect that query SELECT lcCode FROM dbo.vwLocationCodes l WHERE l.lcID = @lcID will seek UNIQUE index but it does not.
I tried these:
1. Changing UX and/or PK to be CLUSTERED.
2. query OPTION(RECOMPILE)
3. FORCESEEK on view
4. SQL Server 2012/2014
5. Wrap it into function and CROSS APPLY. On large outer number of rows this just dies, no solution
but to no avail. This smells like a bug in SQL Server. I am seeking your confirmation.
I am thinking it is a bug as variable value is high-cardinality, 1, and query is against unique key. This must produce single seek, depending if clustered or nonclustred index is unique
Thanks
Vladimir
use tempdb
BEGIN TRAN
-- setup definition
CREATE TABLE dbo.LocationHierarchy(
lcID int NOT NULL ,
lcHID hierarchyid NOT NULL,
lcCode nvarchar(25) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL,
lcHIDParent AS lcHID.GetAncestor(1) PERSISTED,
CONSTRAINT PK_LocationHierarchy_lcID PRIMARY KEY NONCLUSTERED (lcID ASC),
CONSTRAINT UX_LocationHierarchy_pltID_lcHID UNIQUE CLUSTERED (lcHID ASC)
-- add some data
INSERT INTO dbo.LocationHierarchy
VALUES
(1, '/', 'A')
,(2, '/1/', 'B')
,(3, '/1/1/', 'C')
,(4, '/1/1/1/', 'D')
--DROP VIEW dbo.vwLocationCodes
GO
CREATE VIEW dbo.vwLocationCodes
AS
WITH ru AS
SELECT
lh.lcID
,lh.lcCode
,lh.lcHID
,CAST('/' + lh.lcCode + '/' as varchar(8000)) as LocationPath
-- to support recursion
,lh.lcHIDParent
FROM dbo.LocationHierarchy lh
UNION ALL
SELECT
ru.lcID
,ru.lcCode
,ru.lcHID
,CAST('/' + lh.lcCode + ru.LocationPath as varchar(8000)) as LocationPath
,lh.lcHIDParent
FROM dbo.LocationHierarchy lh
JOIN ru ON ru.lcHIDParent = lh.lcHID
SELECT
lh.lcID
,lh.lcCode
,lh.LocationPath
,lh.lcHID
FROM ru lh
WHERE lh.lcHIDParent IS NULL
GO
-- get data via view
SELECT
CONCAT(SPACE(l.lcHID.GetLevel() * 4), lcCode) as LocationIndented
FROM dbo.vwLocationCodes l
ORDER BY lcHID
GO
SET SHOWPLAN_XML ON
GO
DECLARE @lcID int = 2
-- I believe this produces bad plan and is defect in SQL Server optimizer.
-- variable value cardinality is 1 and SQL Server should know that. Optiomal plan is to do index seek with key lookup.
-- This does not happen.
SELECT lcCode FROM dbo.vwLocationCodes l WHERE l.lcID = @lcID -- bad plan
-- this is a plan I expect.
SELECT lcCode FROM dbo.vwLocationCodes l WHERE l.lcID = 2 -- good plan
-- I reviewed these but I need a view here, can't be SP
-- http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/tonyrogerson/archive/2008/05/17/non-recursive-common-table-expressions-performance-sucks-1-cte-self-join-cte-sub-query-inline-expansion.aspx
-- http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/22d2d580-0ff8-4a9b-b0d0-e6a8345062df/issue-with-select-using-a-recursive-cte-and-parameterizing-the-query?forum=transactsql
GO
SET SHOWPLAN_XML OFF
GO
ROLLBACK
Vladimir Moldovanenko

Here is more... note that I am creating table Items and these can be in Locations.
I am trying LEFT JOIN and OUTER APLLY to 'bend' query into NESTED LOOP and SEEK. There has to be nested loop, 2 rows against 4. But SQL Server fails to generate optimal plan with SEEK. Even RECOMPILE does not help
use tempdb
BEGIN TRAN
-- setup definition
CREATE TABLE dbo.LocationHierarchy(
lcID int NOT NULL ,
lcHID hierarchyid NOT NULL,
lcCode nvarchar(25) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL,
lcHIDParent AS lcHID.GetAncestor(1) PERSISTED,
CONSTRAINT PK_LocationHierarchy_lcID PRIMARY KEY NONCLUSTERED (lcID ASC),
CONSTRAINT UX_LocationHierarchy_pltID_lcHID UNIQUE CLUSTERED (lcHID ASC)
-- add some data
INSERT INTO dbo.LocationHierarchy
VALUES
(1, '/', 'A')
,(2, '/1/', 'B')
,(3, '/1/1/', 'C')
,(4, '/1/1/1/', 'D')
--DROP VIEW dbo.vwLocationCodes
GO
--DECLARE @Count int = 10;
--WITH L0 AS (SELECT N FROM (VALUES(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1),(1)) N (N))-- 10 rows
--,L1 AS (SELECT n1.N FROM L0 n1 CROSS JOIN L0 n2) -- 100 rows
--,L2 AS (SELECT n1.N FROM L1 n1 CROSS JOIN L1 n2) -- 10,000 rows
--,L3 AS (SELECT n1.N FROM L2 n1 CROSS JOIN L2 n2) -- 100,000,000 rows
--,x AS
-- SELECT TOP (ISNULL(@Count, 0))
-- ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)) as Number
-- FROM L3 n1
--SELECT Number as itmID, NTILE(4)OVER(ORDER BY Number) as lcID
--INTO dbo.Items
--FROM x
----ORDER BY n1.N
--ALTER TABLE dbo.Items ALTER COLUMN itmID INT NOT NULL
--ALTER TABLE dbo.Items ADD CONSTRAINT PK PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED (itmID)
CREATE TABLE dbo.Items (itmID int NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, lcID int NOT NULL)
INSERT INTO dbo.items
VALUES(1, 1)
,(2, 3)
GO
CREATE VIEW dbo.vwLocationCodes
AS
WITH ru AS
SELECT
lh.lcID
,lh.lcCode
,lh.lcHID
,CAST('/' + lh.lcCode + '/' as varchar(8000)) as LocationPath
-- to support recursion
,lh.lcHIDParent
FROM dbo.LocationHierarchy lh
UNION ALL
SELECT
ru.lcID
,ru.lcCode
,ru.lcHID
,CAST('/' + lh.lcCode + ru.LocationPath as varchar(8000)) as LocationPath
,lh.lcHIDParent
FROM dbo.LocationHierarchy lh
JOIN ru ON ru.lcHIDParent = lh.lcHID
SELECT
lh.lcID
,lh.lcCode
,lh.LocationPath
,lh.lcHID
FROM ru lh
WHERE lh.lcHIDParent IS NULL
GO
-- get data via view
SELECT
CONCAT(SPACE(l.lcHID.GetLevel() * 4), lcCode) as LocationIndented
FROM dbo.vwLocationCodes l
ORDER BY lcHID
GO
--SET SHOWPLAN_XML ON
GO
DECLARE @lcID int = 2
-- I believe this produces bad plan and is defect in SQL Server optimizer.
-- variable value cardinality is 1 and SQL Server should know that. Optiomal plan is to do index seek with key lookup.
-- This does not happen.
SELECT lcCode FROM dbo.vwLocationCodes l WHERE l.lcID = @lcID-- OPTION(RECOMPILE) -- bad plan
-- this is a plan I expect.
SELECT lcCode FROM dbo.vwLocationCodes l WHERE l.lcID = 2 -- good plan
SELECT *
FROM dbo.Items itm
LEFT JOIN dbo.vwLocationCodes l ON l.lcID = itm.lcID
OPTION(RECOMPILE)
SELECT *
FROM dbo.Items itm
OUTER APPLY
SELECT *
FROM dbo.vwLocationCodes l
WHERE l.lcID = itm.lcID
) l
-- I reviewed these but I need a view here, can't be SP
-- http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/tonyrogerson/archive/2008/05/17/non-recursive-common-table-expressions-performance-sucks-1-cte-self-join-cte-sub-query-inline-expansion.aspx
-- http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/22d2d580-0ff8-4a9b-b0d0-e6a8345062df/issue-with-select-using-a-recursive-cte-and-parameterizing-the-query?forum=transactsql
GO
--SET SHOWPLAN_XML OFF
GO
ROLLBACK
Vladimir Moldovanenko

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kernel changelog wrote: The double delimiter check that allows a comma in the password parsing code is
unconditional. We set "tmp_end" to the end of the string and we continue to
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Budget Report to show the fixed and variable split for Materials

Hello Gurus,
Could you tell me if there is a budget standards report that will show the fixed and variable split for Materials? Example: Labor, Equip., QC and Overheads?
I need it for the correctly rolled-up 'final material number' step. The report that does this now (without fixed and var split) is the Indented BOM Comparison (sret - cost mgmt-product costing - cost mgmt-customized reports - cost estimate comparison - costed multilevel compare rpt - Indented BOM Comparison).
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data : begin of itab occurs 0,
slno type i,
<other fields>
end of itab.
after filling the data in itab.
loop at itab.
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modify itab.
endloop.
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regards
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hi,
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