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Ifra
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Hi, I'm using WebFocus 7705 and trying to do indentations on specific rows and I'm having trouble doing so.

Currently what I'm writing is--
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COUNTRY
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
END
-RUN

and it looks like--

COUNTRY
-----------
ENGLAND
JAPAN
ITALY
W GERMANY
FRANCE

but I want it to look like

COUNTRY
-----------
ENGLAND
JAPAN
ITALY
W GERMANY
FRANCE

where the data rows will be indented. I've tried to use the code below, but the problem is that the column header gets indented as well.

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COUNTRY
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN, PAGESIZE='A4', TOPMARGIN=0.000000, SQUEEZE=OFF, ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT, $
TYPE=REPORT, COLUMN=P1, LEFTGAP=1, $
END
-RUN

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MartinY
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Hi Ifra,

Assuming that is the expected result:
COUNTRY
-------
        ENGLAND
        JAPAN
        ITALY
        W GERMANY
        FRANCE


Here is a easy solution:
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT COMPUTE DUMMY/A8 = ''; AS 'COUNTRY'
      COUNTRY AS ''
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
END
-RUN


But may not be the proper one depending of what you need.


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
 
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Ifra
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Hi Martin,

Your assumption was correct that is what I want the output to look like. The only problem with the presented solution is that the end goal is to create a heirachy-like look where some elements will indented like--

COUNTRY
---------
++ENGLAND
JAPAN
++++ITALY
++W GERMANY
FRANCE

where the pluses are the indents.


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MartinY
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What would be the rule the determine if it must have no indent, two or four (as per your example) ?

If you have such a rule, you can add space to mimic an indent similar to this:
DEFINE FILE CAR
DUMMY1 /A30 = IF COUNTRY EQ 'ENGLAND' OR 'W GERMANY' THEN '  '   | COUNTRY
         ELSE IF COUNTRY EQ 'ITALY'                  THEN '    ' | COUNTRY ELSE COUNTRY;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT DUMMY1  AS 'Country'
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
END
-RUN

You'll have to play around with it and even make it more dynamic. This is just a starting point.


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Ifra
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Such a simple solution I didn't come up with! That solves my problem. Thanks, Martin.


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Ifra
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Just out of curiousity--is there not a way to just add some type of left padding onto the data cells? I tried searching, but wasn't able to find anything.


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MartinY
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As far as I know : No


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susannah
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lookup LEFTGAP and RIGHTGAP,
eg: LEFTGAP=.5, RIGHTGAP=.5,

except it doesn't work...it can adjust the column, the entire column, but not the content within it...
I'm going with Martin's answer

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MartinY
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Haven't thought about it Susannah, good call

This one can also be a good option: Position/Gap


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Nice Susannah, I was about to suggest that till I saw that you just did Smiler
quote:
ookup LEFTGAP and RIGHTGAP,
eg: LEFTGAP=.5, RIGHTGAP=.5,




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Originally posted by Doug:
Nice Susannah, I was about to suggest that till I saw that you just did Smiler
quote:
Lookup LEFTGAP and RIGHTGAP,
eg: LEFTGAP=.5, RIGHTGAP=.5,




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