Variable data binding in Excel

Hi guys,
how can I use data binding in Excel planning solutions? In WAD data binding works perfect getting values from a userexit variable to an input ready user variable.
How to do the same in Excel?
We have the problem that the values of our user exit variable may change between two executions of the planning sequence. Nevertheless the planning sequence works with cached values of the variable.
Regards
Stefan

Thanks for the advice, but it is not quite the thing I am looking for.
I would like to use the same planning sequence in different scenarios , so the filter of the seqence contains input ready variables, which are used without variable screen. In WAD I can use userxit variables as source for input ready variables. How to do the same in Excel? Especially variables with multi single values.
Regards STefan

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Can Xcelsius deal with variable data

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Variable data in Illustrator

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Report data binding error

I have created a banded report split into departments. Each
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calculated field to the banding, I get the following error:
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How do I create an interactive PDF file with variable data

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Can anyone point me to a tool to use for this?
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Network shared variables lose binding

Hello,
I am developing an application in LabVIEW that uses network shared variables to transmit data between two PC's on the same subnet. The shared variables work fine when running the VI's in development mode, however, when i build the vi's into an executable I find that they no longer work. Here is what I have found so far:
I deploy the shared variable library on the publisher machine (also happens to be the development machine) through an invoke node in the executable. NI distributed system manager confirms that this does deploy and indeed updates as it should.
For the executable on the subscriber PC I created a second shared variable library (same project) with the same shared variables and bound them to the respective shared variables from the first library by selecting enable aliasing, then bind to PSP URL and browsing to the shared variable I wish to bind it to (e.g. \\hallnet-ellm2\shared variable library\serial Number). The machines listed under browse were listed by name so when I tried this initially and it did not work I manually changed the name of my machine in the URL box to the IP address of the publisher hoping that would fix it in case the subscriber could not resolve the publishers machine alias. So now my bind URL read \\192.168.0.1\shared variable library\serial Number.
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Attachments:
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Hi Lee,
I hope you are well. Thank you for your post. Your application sounds very interesting.
Looking at your issue I was wondering, have you tried lowering your firewalls, as this may be causing the problem.
Also, another option would be to setup a private network. Do you have access to any routers that you could use to link the two machines independent of your IT's infrastructure?
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Kind regards,
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Hi,
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my sql results to a CF Report Builder 7.02 PDF report and it works
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anyway. I checked to make sure that none of the dates were null.
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I know i can bind a property, as seen here http://help.sap.com/saphelp_uiaddon10/helpdata/en/91/f0f3cd6f4d1014b6dd926db0e91070/content.htm, but how can I map whole arrays?
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I want to create a custom table control in SAPUI5 (as the default one doesn't provide the neccessary options and properties I need), but I can't seem to find an example how to bind "rows".
There has to be a way to do this properly. All I can think of now, and implemented, is, passing the name of the variable in the model...
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...my JSON/model looks like:
{ "status": [ {"FIRST_COL": "a" , ...}, {"FIRST_COL": "b", ... }, ... ], ... }
(which should translate into /status/0/FIRST_COL, /status/1/FIRST_COL, ... AFAIK)
... and then I use this variable name by getting the application-wide model and use the variable passed as key for the model... (please note, this code is just a snippet)
       var sapCore = sap.ui.getCore();
            if (sapCore !== undefined) {
             var model = sapCore.getModel().getObject();
             if (model === undefined || model == [] || model == null){ } else {
              $.each(model, function(idx, item){
               $.each(oControl.getColumnsRows(), function(idx, item2) {
                $.each(item2.getColumns(), function(idx, item3){
                 var content = item3.getContent();
                 if (content !== undefined && content != ""){
                  outpLine = outpLine + "<td>" + model[idx][content] + "</td>";
...which still leaves me with the problem of to get an event to react to re-render on changes within the data model, as well as when there would be just an control-specific model, or just a sub-node within a model etc.
So my question is:
Is there a way/best practice to define data binding in a custom control and have a way to react on it, and how to react on data changes within a custom control?
Thanks & KR
Chris

I create a entirely new control, from sap.ui.core.Control.
sap.ui.core.Control.extend("my.controls.complex.table",{... });
I did define a aggregation...
        aggregations : { columnsRows: {type : "my.controls.complex.columnRow", multiple : true, visibility: "public"}     },
...yet I'm still unclear how I work with this aggregation and databinding. I know we can use the bindAggreation functionallity, but since the aggregation is a object (my.control.complex.columnRow) I don't know how my JSON model should be able to bind to that aggregation (as well as how would one be able to cascade a aggregation like this down futher? For example if there is an aggregation in the object of my aggregation?), plus it still doesn't solve my problem of how I can react (for example redraw) on model changes.
Thanks in advance,
Chris

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