Hello!
I am searching for a way to directly import search results into Excel.
I don't want to use the manual Export -> Excel option but for example a direct URL to a search and get a text based XML or CSV file back as result which can be imported into Excel. And this search result should contain the EPMDocument number of each search result.
The standard search window cannot be imported to Excel since it contains Javascript elements and it is not showing up the EPMDocument number (or is this just a setting?)
My goal is to import this text into Excel with a macro and generating direct URLs to Creo View so the user can interact from Excel, gets a list of different versions and can directly open them in Creo View.
This means that the search routine should be some kind of translator from the search keyword to the internal EPMDocument number which seems to be the unique database number which is needed for Creo View, right?
I also thought of connecting directly to the Oracle database and perform the search there but I know that PTC advises users against connecting directly to the database with 3rd party software.
If you have any tips how to manage this, I would be glad.
Thanks!
Regards,
David