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Tomsweb
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I have created a launch page to allow users to create in HTML,PDF or EXL2K display format.

The report that is launched allows for drilldown to two other (summary and detail
reports in the DIVISION column. I have noticed that the html page allows drill to either
summary or detail reports via a hover link but the excel and pdf format reports do not.

Is there any special conditions I must code for to provide multi drill from the excel and pdf
reports?

Thanks! Confused


Tomsweb
WebFOCUS 8.1.05M, 8.2.x
APP Studio, Developer Studio, InfoAssist, Dashboards, charts & reports
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Posts: 573 | Location: Baltimore, MD | Registered: July 06, 2006Report This Post
N.Selph
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I believe you can only multi-drill from HTML format. Frowner


(Prod: WebFOCUS 7.7.03: Win 2008 & AIX hub/Servlet Mode; sub: AS/400 JDE; mostly Self Serve; DBs: Oracle, JDE, SQLServer; various output formats)
 
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Tom Flynn
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TomsWeb,

Here is am example of drilldown's in PDF:



ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,
PAGESIZE='SCREEN',
LEFTMARGIN=0.000000,
RIGHTMARGIN=0.000000,
TOPMARGIN=0.000000,
BOTTOMMARGIN=0.000000,
SQUEEZE=ON,
ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
FONT='ARIAL',
SIZE=9,
COLOR='BLACK',
BACKCOLOR='NONE',
STYLE=NORMAL,
RIGHTGAP=0.125000,
TOPGAP=0.013889,
BOTTOMGAP=0.027778,
$
TYPE=DATA,
COLUMN=N16,
FOCEXEC=app/fbm091.fex(FISCAL_YEAR=N1 CHART_OF_ACCOUNTS=N2 ORGANIZATION_CODE=N3 FUND=N4 ACCOUNT=N10 FISCAL_PERIOD=N18),
$
TYPE=DATA,
COLUMN=N14,
FOCEXEC=app/fbm093.fex(FISCAL_YEAR=N1 CHART_OF_ACCOUNTS=N2 ORGANIZATION_CODE=N3 FUND=N4 ACCOUNT=N10 FISCAL_PERIOD=N18),
$
TYPE=DATA,
COLUMN=N10,
FOCEXEC=app/fbm092.fex(FISCAL_YEAR=N1 CHART_OF_ACCOUNTS=N2 ORGANIZATION_CODE=N3 FUND=N4 ACCOUNT=N10 FISCAL_PERIOD=N18),
$

The COLUMN=NXX after DATA is the drilldown link, the others are to run the fex using those parameters.


Hope this helps...Tom


Tom Flynn
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Tony A
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Tom,

As N Selph mentions, multiselects are only possible from HTML. This is due to the fact that a mouseover event trigger is used to execute JS to build the small menu.

You could COMPUTE two addtional columns to contain, maybe, an S and a D and then hyperlink these instead. Not quite a hoverover menu but it would still provide both drill options no matter what output format.

T


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Kerry
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Hi Tomsweb,

I ran some search on Information Builders' online documents and came to the understandig that, Multiple DrillDown is only supported for HTML or HTMLTABLE as stated in the Help File (No multiple DrillDown capability for PDF or Excel: http://techsupport.informationbuilders.com/sps/90631016.html). The following topic on multiple drilldowns may be of interest as well:

Restrictions of creating multiple drilldowns in a report

Hope this helps. Smiler

Cheers,

Kerry


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