Hello,

a customer of us is using the HTML Graph Assistant of the MRE to develop diffrent diagrams. This works fine as long as they are not trying to save a file. (The customer environment is 7.6.2)

1. SCREEN-OUTPUT
If they chose output to the screen, execute the report und save it to a file (pdf,gif,png,etc), the focus titles are lost (as described in the manual) and the chart titles remain. But the chart-titles are not able to show field-values as the focus-titles did.

2. FILE-OUTPUT
If the customer choses the output to a file, enters a name, a format (png or s.th.) and executes the report, the file is saved to 'D:\ibi\WebFOCUS76\temp' with a name like 'jfxvghfv.png'. The name for the file that got entered in the Assistant is not recognized. The manual says that you should do a filedef before saving a file, BUT our customers are only using the HTML Graph Assistant from MRE.

3. PRINTER-OUTPUT
just working fine!

So the questions are:
Why is the name a customer inserts for the file not recognized? What is the sense of that save-file-function, if the user is not able to gain access to the files? Are we using it wrong?

Is there any way to get the FOCUS-Titles in a saved file or to get the field-values into the chart-titles?

Is there any way to enable our customers to save the diagrams to their hard disk only by using the HTML Graph Assistant from the MRE?
(no coding, no developer studio, no filedef)

If the HTML Graph Assistant does not contain this functionality, is there any workaround? Is there any other tool which can accomplish this task?

Thankful for every hint!
JP

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Jean-Pierre,

quote:

But the chart-titles are not able to show field-values as the focus-titles did

Jean-Pierre

You need to use the API calls to set the text values.
In an initial pass before the graph generate the values you want and read them in as Variables

 TABLE FILE CAR
SUM DCOST
ON TABLE SAVE
END
-RUN
-READ SAVE &TCOST.A7.

GRAPH FILE CAR
SUM DCOST
ACROSS COUNTRY
ON GRAPH SET GRAPHSTYLE *
setTitleString("Total Sales = &TCOST.EVAL \n Date &DATE");
ENDSTYLE
END 

the \n generates a new line

Hello together,

I opened up a case on this issue. Here is the result:
(I think some will know this already, but it may be helpful for some others)


The Focus Heading and Footing is not part of the graph. The graph is embedded in an HTML page which contains the Heading and Footing, so when the Graph is saved, the HTML code around is not saved.

If the users want to save a generated graph on their local hard disc, the only and easiest solution will be to create the graph online and from the browser to select 'Save picture as'.

Another way is to create the Graph first in a Holdfile and then incorporate the generated image in a PDF report. The second report contains the Heading and Footing then, but you will have to size the image and the position of the Heading and Footing to your needs. But this can't be done only using the Graph Assistant, a TextEditor is needed to combine it.

PowerPainter or the new InfoAssist may be used, which let's you compose complex type of reports. But both products needs to be licensed separately.


At least I'm having the answer, that this is not possible only by using the HTML Graph Assistant.

I mark the Thread as [CLOSED, but not SOLVED].

Greetings
JP