Sequential stream filter

Did some searching but didn't know the right wording. I have a stream filter to allow through the proper data to be exported to excel. Theres a few more stream filters after this to allow the proper heading, fonts, fills, sheeet and locations at well but theyre all linked to the original stream filter. Right now it works fine for exporting 1 sheet at a time however I'd like to set up an option to export all sheets at once. Without getting too crazy with entwining all these headings, formats, and data all together I was wondering if there was something that would just run stream "0-5" in order right after each other.

Did some quick searching and I don't know if hoopsnake is too much for something seemingly simple?

Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Armin Seltz on June 19, 2016 at 4:08pm

If you want something to happen "one after the other", you wont be able to avoid something like hoopsnake or anemone. Saying that, once you know how to set it up, its very quick to do. With anemone its like 3 or 4 components to do that and you can leave the "manual" way intact easily.

I am pretty sure it doesn't support that, but it would be nice to have a stream filter where you can send it several inputs at once and it merges the outputs. Like a selective merge. It kind of depends what kind of data structure you have in those inputs 0 - 5.

If you upload a file, i'll give it a go.

Permalink Reply by Shaun on June 20, 2016 at 7:15am

Armin thanks for the reply. I'm going to try and play around with hoopsnake to see what I can learn but good to know I'm looking in the right direction. Thanks again!

Permalink Reply by Armin Seltz on June 20, 2016 at 8:04am

Here is an example of doing it in anemone (I think Hoopsnake is very similar). It just outputs the current step of the repeat (I like to refer to it as the current frame, like in an animation). This can be used to drive whatever you want and using remapping and so on, can be used to drive pretty much anything.

Since the loop will wait till the complete recalculation is done, you can loop through anything really. For example I use it to build animations and it exports every frame as an .obj file before going to the next.

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Permalink Reply by Shaun on June 20, 2016 at 8:09am

Interesting. I was a little nervous that the time it would take to export to excel before running the next gate would interfere with the next export going through however this seems to solve it. I'm going to give this a try. Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Armin Seltz on June 20, 2016 at 8:14am

Yeah I was thinking the same before I tried it, but the next step in the loop wont start till everything is done, no matter how long it takes. Sometimes the steps take close to a minute for what I am doing, but it works just fine even for several thousand steps.

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