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Rhonda
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We have an application where we want to display a portal title name that is longer than the 25 character limit. This occurs as the portal is being loaded. The name gets truncated and the last two letters in the title are not displayed. Any one know how to change it and make the box wider? We have standards in place so that is why we cannot swap between the TITLE and NAME.

Any ideas are appreciated.

Rhonda

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Tamra,


WebFOCUS & ReportCaster 8.1.05, 7.7.03 - AIX/LINUX, FOCUS 7.6.13 MVS, Output PDF, XLS-XLSX, DOCX and HTML
 
Posts: 146 | Location: Atlanta, GA | Registered: May 31, 2007Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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How did you enter a title with more than 25 characters? I cannot do it from the web interface. The only way I see to enter more more than 25 characters is to enter it in the database table BIP_NLS using SQL.

To show the Portal title in a banner in BIP, we created an HTML file containing some JavaScript that parses some BIP parameters to determine the title. This HTML file is added to the BIP top banner using the BIP editor.

If you did not use SQL to enter more than 25 characters for the title, or if you feel this is too drastic a technique, you may wish to ignore my post, but this seems the only way to take control of the portal title.

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

    <head>

        <title></title>

        <style>
            body { padding:0px; margin: 0px; }

            #bipBannerTitle {
                width: 98%;
                font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
            }
        </style>

        <script>
            window.onload = function ()
            {
                var pTitle = "";
                var pAlign = "left";
                var pFontSize = "18px";

                var pBipName  = "";
                var pBipTitle = "";

                // capture BIP Name and Title
                var w = (window.opener) ? window.opener.top : window.top;
                if(w.hasOwnProperty('NewPageViewName'))
                {
                    pBipName  = w.NewPageViewName;
                    pBipTitle = w.NewPageViewTitle;
                }

                // capture window's URL and parse parameters looking for P_TITLE
                var mainURL = window.location.href;
                var comps = mainURL.split("?");

                // see if there are actual URL parameters
                if (comps.length > 1) {
                    var params = comps[1].split("&");

                    for (var i = 0; i < params.length; i++) {
                        var p = params[i].split("=");

                        // capture specific parameters
                        if ("P_TITLE" === p[0]) {
                            pTitle = decodeURIComponent(p[1]);
                        } else if ("P_ALIGN" === p[0]) {
                            pAlign = decodeURIComponent(p[1]);
                        } else if ("P_FONTSIZE" === p[0]) {
                            pFontSize = decodeURIComponent(p[1]);
                        }
                    }
                }

                var bipBannerTitle = document.getElementById('bipBannerTitle');

                // set the BIP title
                if (bipBannerTitle != null)
                {
                    if (pTitle === "") bipBannerTitle.innerHTML = pBipTitle; else bipBannerTitle.innerHTML = pTitle;
                    bipBannerTitle.style.textAlign = pAlign;
                    bipBannerTitle.style.fontSize  = pFontSize;
                }

            }
        </script>

    </head>

<body>

    <div id="bipBannerTitle"></div>

</body>

</html>


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
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Tamra
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Rhonda,

The following may help you out with this question as well.


In the Portal, there is a 24 character limit when you display by Title. If you
display by Name, the limit is 64 characters.

You can right click the Content Folder and change the view from "Display by
Title" to "Display by Name".

Thank you for participating in the Focal Point Forum.

Kindest regards,
Tamra Colangelo
Focal Point Moderator - Information Builders Inc.
* Summit 2016 – June 13-17 in Reno, Nevada  - http://www.informationbuilders.com/events/summit


WebFOCUS 8x - BI Portal, Developer Studio, App Studio, Excel, PDF, Active Formats and HTML5
 
Posts: 487 | Location: Toronto | Registered: June 23, 2009Report This Post
Rhonda
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Hi Tamra,

Unfortunately we cannot sort by name. It goes against the standards set up for the application. Thanks for your suggestion.

Regards,
Rhonda


WebFOCUS & ReportCaster 8.1.05, 7.7.03 - AIX/LINUX, FOCUS 7.6.13 MVS, Output PDF, XLS-XLSX, DOCX and HTML
 
Posts: 146 | Location: Atlanta, GA | Registered: May 31, 2007Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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Rhonda, you haven't explained...
quote:
How did you enter a title with more than 25 characters?


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
Posts: 10577 | Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Registered: April 27, 2005Report This Post
Rhonda
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Hi Francis - Our standards were to have the portal title and name be the same and for Title to be displayed and not Name. Even though so far only one portal has a Title longer than 25 characters, the Title to be displayed is in the application specs.

Rhonda


WebFOCUS & ReportCaster 8.1.05, 7.7.03 - AIX/LINUX, FOCUS 7.6.13 MVS, Output PDF, XLS-XLSX, DOCX and HTML
 
Posts: 146 | Location: Atlanta, GA | Registered: May 31, 2007Report This Post
Tamra
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Rhonda,

This is a known issue and is being worked on by the IBI programming department.

Your case has been added to the project.

Thank you for participating in the Focal Point Forum.

Kindest regards,
Tamra Colangelo
Focal Point Moderator - Information Builders Inc.
* Summit 2016 – June 13-17 in Reno, Nevada  - http://www.informationbuilders.com/events/summit


WebFOCUS 8x - BI Portal, Developer Studio, App Studio, Excel, PDF, Active Formats and HTML5
 
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