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Dan Morphis
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Is it possible to display text in a HTML "PRE" tag?

I have text like this in the DB (Hope it shows up correctly):
ABMZ   DIAMETER                      18.000INCHES NOMINAL


However it shows up like this:
ABMZ DIAMETER 18.000INCHES NOMINAL


Test: XP / WF 7.1.1
 
Posts: 22 | Registered: November 21, 2005Report This Post
Mikel
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Try this:

PRETXT/A250 = '<pre>' || TEXT || '<pre>' ;

Regards,
Mikel


WebFOCUS 8.1.05, 8.2.01
 
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Dan Morphis
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PRETXT/A250 = '<pre>' || TEXT || '<pre>' ;

Regards,
Mikel


Mikel,
I tried your suggestion, and it works fine, except for when the column is of oracle type LONG. I'm using the oracle 9.1.2 JDBC driver.

The error message I get from WF is
(FOC280) COMPARISON BETWEEN COMPUTATIONAL AND ALPHA VALUES IS NOT ALLOWED


The LONG type in oracle is a blob. I've tried doing some transformations on the data, but Oracle prevents you from doing anything (including to_lob) unless you are inserting that data into a table. Any ideas on how to force WF to treat the column as a ALPHA? It is typed as an alpha in the master file.

Here is the relevant line from my MAS file:
  FIELD=DETAIL, ALIAS=DETAIL, USAGE=A4096V, ACTUAL=A4096V


Test: XP / WF 7.1.1
 
Posts: 22 | Registered: November 21, 2005Report This Post
Mikel
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Another way to prevents from collapsing sequences of whitespace (=pre tag) is using css styles (CSS white-space: pre; property)

I think this way will works with your blobs fields.

Example:

TABLE FILE CAR
  PRINT
    COUNTRY
    COMPUTE CARMODEL/A40 = CAR | MODEL ;
  ON TABLE HOLD AS REPORT FORMAT HTMTABLE
  ON TABLE SET STYLE *
    TYPE=DATA, CLASS=pre, $
END
-RUN

-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<style type="text/css">
  .pre {
      font: 1em courier new, monospace;
      white-space: pre;
    }
</style>
!IBI.FIL.REPORT;
-HTMLFORM END


Regards,
Mikel


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Tony A
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Mikel,

Didn't work for me Frowner what browser versions is it supported on? I'm on MSIE 6.0.2900.2180.

Dan,

How about changing the USAGE option in the master file to get rid of the variable aspect of it? Not sure whether it will work as I don't have access to similar data, but it's worth a try?
quote:
FIELD=DETAIL, ALIAS=DETAIL, USAGE=A4096, ACTUAL=A4096V


T


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since 1986		WebFOCUS Server 8.2.01M, thru 8.2.07 on Windows Svr 2008 R2  
WebFOCUS App Studio 8.2.06 standalone on Windows 10 
 
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Tony A
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A little bit of digging and it appears that MSIE 6 needs to be forced to parse CSS code in a particular mode of "strict".

There are two modes (apparently?) strict and quirks. To get the strict mode to work in Mikels example I had to modify the HTML code like this -
-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
	"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Rendering modes - white-space (strict)</title>
<style type="text/css">
  .pre {
      font: 1em courier new, monospace;
      white-space: pre;
    }
</style>
</head>
<body>
!IBI.FIL.REPORT;
</body>
</html>
-HTMLFORM END
and then I could see the result.

If you would like to know more then check out this site.

T


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since 1986		WebFOCUS Server 8.2.01M, thru 8.2.07 on Windows Svr 2008 R2  
WebFOCUS App Studio 8.2.06 standalone on Windows 10 
 
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Dan Morphis
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Mikel and Tony,
Thank you so much for your help! Worked like a charm!

Tony, to address this
quote:
How about changing the USAGE option in the master file to get rid of the variable aspect of it? Not sure whether it will work as I don't have access to similar data, but it's worth a try?


It doesn't make a difference if I do that Frowner

But, using what Mikel did, and you built upon I have what I needed!

Thanks,
dan


Test: XP / WF 7.1.1
 
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