Comments on: Miscellanea for 8 May 2009

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sun, 10 May 2009 01:25:35 +0000

Well, you could use GetOpenFilename to let the user browse to and select a file. Or if the code is in the workbook that needs updating, name the file directly: ThisWorkbook.Path & “MyFile.csv”.

By: derek

derek — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:49:38 +0000

That's what I hoped might be possible, and feared feared would be necessary. It may not just be me, as I see that Microsoft's own support pages suggest it used to be a known problem, and they supplied a bit of VBA that might help. But it has hard coded directories, when I'd rather a button that searched out the directory in which the Excel pivot table currently resides, and assumes the CSV file is in the same place.

By: Debra Dalgleish

Debra Dalgleish — Sat, 09 May 2009 20:55:32 +0000

Sorry Derek, I can’t recreate the problem. Could you add a bit of programming to let the user select a file, and change the connection string based on their selection?

By: derek

derek — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:10:55 +0000

I wish that was what would happen! It’s what I would expect. What actually happens is that another error box comes up saying “Problems obtaining data”.

More news on the “Get Data” in pivot table wizard method. I played with it a bit just now, and I have found that after it tells me I can’t edit the query, it opens the query, and indeed things like View.. Tables and Add Tables are grayed out. But if I open the SQL, I can edit the path by hand in that box, or if I succeed in removing all SQL instructions, I can then rebuild the Query by hand (but see my remark about hoop-jumping; this is not a workable solution).

By: Debra Dalgleish

Debra Dalgleish — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:44:11 +0000

Thanks Jon, we’ll try to keep the noise down. ;-)

Derek, what happens if you click OK in that error message? For me, it opens a Select Directory dialog box.

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:04:43 +0000

Here’s fine.