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SLU Will
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I wish to do a dialogue manager statement that allows the user to select which format (PDF or EXCL2K) he/she wants and then the correct portion of the report will run. The code I am using is below but it will not work correctly if I select EXL2K. It works when I choose PDF.

-DEFAULT &WFFMT = '';
-IF &WFFMT EQ 'PDF' GOTO PDF1;
-IF &WFFMT EQ 'EXL2K' GOTO EXL2K1;

-********* PDF OPTION ******
-PDF1

TABLE FILE ...
...
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT &WFFMT
END

-********* EXCEL OPTION ******
-EXL2K1

TABLE FILE ...
...
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT &WFFMT
END
-EXIT
 
Posts: 18 | Location: Saint Louis | Registered: April 01, 2005Report This Post
pruittlr
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Try putting a semicolon at the end of the default and if statements. Supposedly the semicolon is required. Maybe that's why it's not recognizing the next statement.


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Posts: 31 | Location: Oklahoma City, OK | Registered: September 11, 2003Report This Post
TexasStingray
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It is importance to try and state what version of the product you are using because wit WebFOCUS 5.3 and up you no longer have to have seperate sections of code to choose the output format. What you are aksing for can be done with the below code:
]ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT &WFFMT.(,,,,).Select type of display output.[/code]

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Posts: 865 | Registered: May 24, 2004Report This Post
Roy Nelms
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Will
try doing this in Dialogue Manager:
-SET &OUTFMT = &WFFMT.(HTML,EXCEL,PDF).Select type of display output.;
-IF &OUTFMT = 'HTML' THEN GOTO SETDISPLAY1;
-IF &OUTFMT = 'EXCEL' THEN GOTO SETDISPLAY2;
-IF &OUTFMT = 'PDF' THEN GOTO SETDISPLAY3;
-SETDISPLAY1
-SET &DISP_FORMAT = 'HTML';
-GOTO END_FORMAT
-SETDISPLAY2
-SET &DISP_FORMAT = 'EXL2K';
-GOTO END_FORMAT
-SETDISPLAY3
-SET &DISP_FORMAT = 'PDF';
-END_FORMAT
Then in your report style section you can use
-IF &DISP_FORMAT NE 'HTML' THEN GOTO HTMLDONE;
...style for HTML
-HTMLDONE
-IF &DISP_FORMAT NE 'PDF' THEN GOTO PDFDONE;
...style for PDF
-PDFDONE
$
-IF &DISP_FORMAT NE 'EXL2K' THEN GOTO EXLDONE;
... style for EXL2K
-EXLDONE
then
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT &DISP_FORMAT

This works for me!
 
Posts: 3 | Location: Nevada Texas | Registered: September 13, 2004Report This Post
reFOCUSing
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Here is another way of doing it:

-SET &OUTPUT_CMD = DECODE &WFFMT(
- 'HTML' 'ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT HTML'
- 'PDF' 'ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT PDF'
- 'EXL2K' 'ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K'
- 'EXL2K FORMULA' 'ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K FORMULA'
- 'EXL2K PIVOT' 'ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K PIVOT'
- 'EXL97' 'ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL97'
- 'EXCEL' 'ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXCEL'
- ELSE ' ') ;[/code]

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Posts: 406 | Location: Canada | Registered: May 31, 2004Report This Post
SLU Will
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Sorry about the version issue. We're using WF 5.2.3, but next week we're supposed to upgrade to 5.3. If that's the case, I can wait a week if it'll be that much easier to do in 5.3.

Thanks for your input. I'll try it out and see what happens.
 
Posts: 18 | Location: Saint Louis | Registered: April 01, 2005Report This Post
susannah
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Will, make sure that at the end of your PDF paragraph, you GOTO some endofjob label.
If your user picks pdf, your program does both.
you might also want to default your output to something other than a blank.
or...
-DEFAULT &WFFMT = 'HTML';
-SET &OUTPHRASE = DECODE &WFFMT
- ('PDF' 'ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF'
- 'EXCEL' 'ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K'
- ELSE '' );
TABLE FILE CAR
...
&OUTPHRASE.EVAL
END
 
Posts: 3811 | Location: Manhattan | Registered: October 28, 2003Report This Post
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