Programming in Numbers?

Hi everyone,
Do you guys know if we can write programs in Numbers?... much like Excel where you can program in VBA. I hear something about using automator... but is there a way to do it so the program is embedded in the spreadsheet and hidden from the user?
Thanks,
Alex

Yvan, I think what your doing in applescript is great, but copying to the cipboard then run a script then paste back in only gives a very limited scope of applications.
What us programmers want is what we can do in XL using VBA. I can manipulate cells directly by "talking" directly to them, or to a range of cells. I can pull data from somewhere else and process it, placing the results inside the tables I want. I want to dynamically create sheets based upon data placed in a source table on sheet1. Creating the appropriate tables according to other data somewhere else, changing the formatting and all properties that you could do by hand, but automate it.
BTW, if you use gui scripting, couldn't the person copy the data, place the cursor in the location they want to paste, run your script, and your applescript would perform the paste for them? Just a thought. Applescipts "English" type language doesn't make a lot of sense to me coming from twenty years of programming basic/java/pascal style. It's syntax seems so backwards to me. I'm glad we have you to help write these things for us.
Thanks for all the help you give on here Yvan, I know you don't get thanked often enough.
Jason

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A: problem: program outputs numbers in scientific notation

Or upgrade to JDK 5.0 and user the new java.util.Formatter capability.
You control the rounding and get localization of the fomatted string at
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$ LC_ALL=it_IT     java A
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http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/relnotes/features.html#formatter

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I am trying to consider whether we will be able to create our own charting system in a medical clinic. In beginning to play with the idea - the first thing that I need to find out would be does a database program like numbers have the ability to create full sentences from information in a give data field? From there it becomes can you create a workflow that would take data from selected fields in a data base to populate a completed paragraph.
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Hi L.T.D.,
To only answer the question you asked, the answer is yes you can do those specific tasks you mentioned.
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Since you don't want the sentence if A2 is blank you would modify this formula to something like this:
=IF(ISBLANK(A2),"","the patient reports "&A2&" that won't leave.")
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Sometimes merged cells create difficulty in Numbers. A mix of popups and checkboxes may complicate things.
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How to make a simple program in numbers that i can use on my iphone

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I am preparing for Dental school, a very tough program, indeed, and wanted to use a powerful tool that helped me out in my undergrad:
I have developed a Visual Basic program in Excel which gives the user a few simple forms through which I can enter data (terms and definitions, or possible test information) and then take short tests, play a silly game, print flash cards and so on.
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I want help doing simple programing on numbers.

I am too lazy to try to learn it on my own. My first project would be to take the simple employee schedule template under Business in Numbers and modify it to add some sales projections. Very simple stuff. Is there a company tha

Under Numbers there is a template under Business that is labled Employee Schedule.
1. Overall the schedule is pretty good but the time for clocking in an employee only goes to 11. We are a restaurant/brewery we need clock in times as late at 9 PM and clock outs as late as 3 AM. Need that expanded.
2. I would like that spreadsheet to flood another spreadsheet immediately below the schedule that takes total gross salaries for each day. Start with Sunday thru Saturday. So whichever employee works on Sun gets added to the Sunday total. It would look like this, first column has the days of the week ie sun, mon, tues etc next column shows the expected total salaries for the day from the Employee Schedule.
3. Next column would have projected sales. This number would be filled in by the supervisor and he would guess sales volume for the day.
4. The next column would be the result of dividing total gross salaries for each day by the sales projection made by the supervisor. Top of the column would read salaries/sales.
5. There would also be a total for the week with salaries/sales as some days like Monday we will be over budget and on busy days like Friday, we would be under budget. As long as my supervisors balance to 20% I will be ok, at least for now:)
This Tool would help the supervisor to be able to set up and change sheduled hours either up or down to meet our goal of salaries not to exceed 20% of projected sales.
I can tell this is probably simple for someone that knows this stuff, but for me, hours of time and then never getting it right would be what would happen.
Thanks so much for your suggestion and I hope you or someone takes this on.
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Your posting this in the spreadsheet forum for Apples iWork program called "Numbers" on mobile devices (iOS).
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or
Looking for a premade app to do this (a different forum/website/search)
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Hi,
I have a single page spreadsheet for staff to log their working hours, and it is coming up with a fault on part of the equasion. I need someone to fix it for me, as my programming doesn't stretch that far.
It's been programmed in NUMBERS
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A

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Hint: Times in Numbers are a Date & Time format. An instant in time since midnight on the beginning of 1st January 1904. Numbers also has a Duration format (the difference between two instances in time).
Please reply with a screen shot of a small part of your screen (large shots are often difficult to read).
Wayne Contello has written a User Tip on how to post a screen shot.
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6591
If 'Insert Image' is greyed out, close the Insert Box (red cross on the top right) and click on the camera icon again. Camera icon sometimes needs a wake-up call, but works the second time.
Remove any personal details before taking the screen shot.
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Finally taking the time (and time and time......) to switch from Appleworks to Numbers. I have a list of things that don't work as I expect but here is just one but its big!
In Appleworks I can select a block of cells and just start typing numbers, pressing the enter key between each and it will fill up the row then move down to the next row, first column and continue. I can't for the life of me figure out how to do anything close to this in Numbers.
(Soapbox) It's things like this that make changing programs a BIG time waster for business folks. Is it any wonder that those of us that have a library of Appleworks spreadsheets, databases, draw documents, etc. NEVER wanted to switch? The loss of productivity over the next 2-3 months is going to kill me!!! (stepping down off soapbox)
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I do appreciate both your answers. I really do. I take it from the quick reply and the similar answer that this work around is the only way to accomplish the task.
The big deal of the difference is that both spreadsheet programs available on Mac before Numbers came out had this function available in it. For Apple to ignore the use of a ten-key pad entry style for data entry in a program called NUMBERS is crazy.
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This is what I've been going through: "Wait, was that a Tab or Return this time... Before or After the number... oops... I hit return again... now I'm 3 rows to far down... WOW. How much is the new MS Office? I need Excel!"
For a BIG Apple fan the idea of having to shift to Excel for such a simple task is mind boggling. I've been able to do this type of data entry on an Apple for years: (Apple ][+, Apple ][GS, Performa 475, Performa 638, PowerMac G3, Pismo PB, Aluminum PB, iMac 24") All the way through I used Appleworks, then ClarisWorks, then Appleworks. All 10-Key friendly.
Hey, was THAT a soapbox I was on again?
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