[SOLVED ISSUE] Excel Template and document composer
Has any one been able to get an Excel template to work inside Document Composer. I get an error message when trying to do this.
When I attempt to import it says FOC3289 and 3296 Error Opening file and Error found in Coordinated Compound Report. can this be gotten around?
I have used multiple Excel reports inside document composer previously without issue.
But, because of some unique formatting issues re: rounding of numbers a template would resolve this for me.
However if it is not possible for an Excel template and document composer to co-exist then I need to pursue other solutions. As a stand alone the template delivers the correct numbers and formatting , however I need to deliver it with another report on a single page formatThis message has been edited. Last edited by: Geoff Fish,
Why not using FPRINT function in a DEFINE and assign proper display format depending on the row ? It should avoid the need of a template
Something such as
DEFINE FILE CAR
NEW_RETAIL /A11 = IF COUNTRY EQ 'ITALY' OR 'ENGLAND' THEN FPRINT(RETAIL_COST, 'D7', 'A10') || '$' ELSE FPRINT(RETAIL_COST, 'D7', 'A10');
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT RETAIL_COST
NEW_RETAIL
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=NEW_RETAIL, JUSTIFY=RIGHT, $
END
WF versions : Prod 8.2.04M gen 33, Dev 8.2.04M gen 33, OS : Windows, DB : MSSQL, Outputs : HTML, Excel, PDF In Focus since 2007
September 08, 2017, 03:58 AM
Tony A
You can also use a dynamic format to retain your fields as numeric. Especially important if you want subtotals - not sure how you would deal with a grand total in the example below as it would be irrelevant
Note that the result of the dynamic format must be 'A8'. It can be any standard format with edit options, see this link
DEFINE FILE CAR
NEWFMT/A8 = DECODE COUNTRY ('ENGLAND' 'D12.2!L' 'JAPAN' 'D12.2!Y' ELSE 'D12.2!E')
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT RETAIL_COST/NEWFMT
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
END
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WebFOCUS Server 8.2.01M, thru 8.2.07 on Windows Svr 2008 R2
WebFOCUS App Studio 8.2.06 standalone on Windows 10
September 08, 2017, 09:16 AM
J.L. Hinds
If I understand the problem correctly, try this...
ON TABLE HOLD AS &PPT_HOLD FORMAT XLSX TEMPLATE 'my_ppt_data.xlsm' SHEETNUMBER 1
That's the first report/tab in Excel. The next one will use the previous "&PPT_HOLD" as the template file.
And finally ON TABLE HOLD AS &PPT_HOLD FORMAT XLSX TEMPLATE &LAST_HOLD SHEETNUMBER 2
WebFOCUS 7.6 Windows, All Outputs
September 08, 2017, 10:05 AM
Geoff Fish
J.L. That looks interesting and I will try it soon. An additional part of the problem that i uncovered is that web focus does not round like excel does. My customer had handed me a spreadsheet with MACROS both down and across . all was well except that he was only displaying 2 decimal places but in fact the calculations of the percent differential was more decimal places than that.
Also I may have left out that the SQL outputted the field as an A20
So this is the solution (abbreviated) that I came up with Sorry it may be awkward and I don't have time to do it against the car file but it works for now
