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<Prarie>
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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

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susannah
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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.
 
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<Prarie>
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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.
 
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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....
 
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susannah
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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.! Wink
 
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webfocuspgm
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Do you think he'd be interested in publishing it under the Focus on Developers section of our main Focal Point page ?
 
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AFS-Skier
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Where can you get the magical little office icons to use on forms?


WebFOCUS 7.6.11, Windows XP, Excel, HTML, PDF
 
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Francis Mariani
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Just right-click and save.


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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Francis Mariani
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This is one way to set up Excel and PDF buttons for all reports:

HTML Report with Excel and PDF options


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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Shruthi Joshi
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Hi,

Choose the output format to be User then you will get the option for the report to be displayed in HTML,PDF,EXCEL...

Hope this will help,

Thank you


WebFocus 7.6.8
Data Migrator 7.6.8
Windows XP
HTML,Excel
 
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AFS-Skier
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Thank you Francis & Shruthi


WebFOCUS 7.6.11, Windows XP, Excel, HTML, PDF
 
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susannah
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here's a really really simple way;
1) put francesco's icons on your server in your vis directory; grab an Active Reports icon and make yourself a back ararow gif while you're at it.
2) DEFINE them
-IF &WFFMT.EXIST EQ 0 GOTO end.deficons ;
PDF/A100    = IF '&WFFMT'   IS 'HTML' THEN
  '<IMG TITLE="PDF" SRC="/ibi_html/vis/pdf.gif" style="border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;" >'
   ELSE ' ';
EXCEL/A100  = IF '&WFFMT'   IS 'HTML' THEN
  '<IMG TITLE="EXCEL" SRC="/ibi_html/vis/excel.gif"  style="border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;"> ' ELSE ' ';
ACTIVE/A200 = IF '&WFFMT'   IS 'HTML' THEN
  '<IMG TITLE="Active Report" SRC="/ibi_html/vis/activereport.jpg"  height=18 style="border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;"> ' ELSE ' ';
-TYPE launch exists &LAUNCH.EXIST &LAUNCH
-IF &LAUNCH.EXIST EQ 0 GOTO end.finpmdef ;
BASE/A200   = IF '&LAUNCH'  EQ 'DEFAULT' THEN ' ' ELSE IF '&WFFMT' IS 'HTML' THEN
  '<a href="javascript:history.go(-1)">' |
  '<IMG TITLE="click to go back" SRC="/ibi_html/vis/arrow_back.gif" height=18 style="border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;"> ' |
  ' </A> ' ELSE ' ';
-end.deficons


3) in your fex:
HEADING
"<BASE<PDF<EXCEL<ACTIVE"

...
4) in your style sheet
TYPE=HEADING,LINE=1,ITEM=2,FOCEXEC=myfex(WFFMT='PDF' ...rest of your parms),$
TYPE=HEADING,LINE=1,ITEM=3,FOCEXEC=myfex(WFFMT='EXL2K' ....la de da), $
you get the idea, yes?



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