My Manager said she saw a WebFocus demo that Showed AFTER a report was run...you could select different kinds of Output...Excel, PDF, HTML.
Anyone have an example of this code? She wants me to put this on our Website. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

most likely, in the demo your manager saw, drilldowns in a header offered different output formats, however in each case the fex is re-run with a different output format passed as a paramter from the drilldown, overriding the HTML default.
So the "AFTER" concept is an illusion. In every case the fex is re-run. Even if you have a win2k+ environment, and you use RCXX (right click export to excel), you are still rerunning the fex.

Thanks...I was wondering...how this could happen..a good selling illusion..always good...
Guess I'll have to create and illusion of my own.

Prarie,
Don't you just love demos. There should be laws that demos must have the code available to managers to bring back with them - Because you know they're going to ask us to do those same 'illusions' .........

I built the illusion in a couple of my small reports because I too couldn't figure out how to do it without just re-running the fex...... If you find a neat trick let us know....

Chris Banks at IBI does a very swell demo with this feature and he uses cute little icons for a printer, a pdf file and the green excel icon.
and he's very generous with his code and his little icon things. ITs the little icons that give wings to the Illusion...very effective. I must admit to using them everywhere myself once i saw Chris's demo.!

Do you think he'd be interested in publishing it under the Focus on Developers section of our main Focal Point page ?