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George Patton
Master
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Consider:
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
SALES AS '$ SALES'
DEALER_COST AS '$ COST'
BY CAR
ACROSS COUNTRY AS ''
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
  INCLUDE=PROBLUE,
$
ENDSTYLE
END


And the result is:



Now consider a single field (SALES) in the across:
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
SALES AS '$ SALES'
BY CAR
ACROSS COUNTRY AS ''
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
  INCLUDE=PROBLUE,
$
ENDSTYLE
END


And the column title for SALES does not appear!



Does anyone have a clue why this occurs? I've messed around with this and as long as more than one across field is specified the titles appear. But with a single field in the across the title does not appear.


WebFOCUS 7.7.05 Windows, Linux, DB2, IBM Lotus Notes, Firebird, Lotus Symphony/OpenOffice. Outputs PDF, Excel 2007 (for OpenOffice integration), WP
 
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FrankDutch
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In PDF only or in all output formats

And how was this your former version of webfocus ?
I am rather sure this is not working this way in version 7.7.03

A bugfix or upgrade ?




Frank
prod: WF 7.6.10 platform Windows,
databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7
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Dan Satchell
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Same happens in release 7.7.03, for all output formats. I'm sure it's a bug. A work-around is to add a reformat to the field, which, for some reason, causes the title to appear.

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
SALES/D8 AS '$ SALES'
BY CAR
ACROSS COUNTRY AS ''
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
END


WebFOCUS 7.7.05
 
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Danny-SRL
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George,

When you have one (1) field in an ACROSS, the rule has always been not to show the title. And this since the very early days of FOCUS on the M/F. When you have more than one, the titles appear.
So when you reformat your single field, under the covers WF has issued a COMPUTE statement, hence 2 fields, hence titles.
Logical, no?


Daniel
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Wep5622
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quote:
So when you reformat your single field, under the covers WF has issued a COMPUTE statement, hence 2 fields, hence titles.
Logical, no?


No indeed! An invisible field should not impact formatting.


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George Patton
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Thank you Dan and Danny ! Smiler

Boo to IBI for not fixing what is obviously a long-standing bug Mad

They could at least document this behaviour with the work-around. I'm with Wep on this one. Let's face it - in every other situation where you DON'T want a title you issue a command like AS '' - why should it be different here?

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