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rc
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Has anyone been ablt to get this example to work?
http://techsupport.informationbuilders.com/sps/20232074.html
 
Posts: 72 | Registered: April 03, 2006Report This Post
N.Selph
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Yes. There was only one trick to it in my environment. Our hub server is Unix, and on a Unix box the template file should not be created mixed case. It must be all lower case. However in the fex it is referenced as upper case.
 
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K TEMPLATE 'TEMPLATE_EXAMPLE' SHEETNUMBER 1


Where the file is called template_example.mht and is in the same app folder on the hub server. It has 2 worksheets (must be more than 1 according to the doc).


(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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rc
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Would you mind sharing the code with me. I can't seem to get it running.
 
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0 NUMBER OF RECORDS IN TABLE= 18 LINES= 18
0 EXL2K FILE SAVED ...
0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE 22 IN PROCEDURE ADHOCRQ FOCEXEC *
(FOC003) THE FIELDNAME IS NOT RECOGNIZED: TABLE
BYPASSING TO END OF COMMAND
(FOC009) INCOMPLETE REQUEST STATEMENT

This is the error I'm getting.
 
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0 NUMBER OF RECORDS IN TABLE= 18 LINES= 18
0 EXL2K FILE SAVED ...
(FOC3289) EXL2K TEMPLATE FILE: Error opening file
(FOC009) INCOMPLETE REQUEST STATEMENT
BYPASSING TO END OF COMMAND

Was missing an "ON" below is the code

APP FI COMPXLSH DISK SMT1.MHT

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT DCOST
-*-* Using HOLD instead of PCHOLD and referencing ORIGINAL template file (.mht).
-*-* Note that the HOLD AS name is FILEDEF'd or APP FI'd to a file with .mht
-*-* extension.SmartBokerTemplate
ON TABLE HOLD FORMAT EXL2K TEMPLATE 'SMT' SHEETNUMBER 2
-*ON TABLE PCHOLD AS COMPXLSH FORMAT EXL2K TEMPLATE 'SMARTBOKERTAMPLATE' SHEETNUMBER 2
-*ON TABLE PCHOLD AS COMPXLSH FORMAT EXL2K TEMPLATE 'SmartBokerTemplate' SHEETNUMBER 2
END

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT MODEL
-* Since this is the last request, PCHOLD is used instead of HOLD.
-* Note that the template filename is the HOLD file (.mht file) from prior
-* request.
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K TEMPLATE 'COMPXLSH' SHEETNUMBER 3
END
-RUN

trying to keep it a simiple as possible, ust to get it to work.
 
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N.Selph
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When you HOLD the file, even though the extension is xht, it has errors. So you may not be able to HOLD a file with WebFocus, and then use the output as input again as a template. In my example I didn't try to do that.


(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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My ultimate goal is to send a compound report to an excel template. My definition of a compound report is where you have multiple quires i.e. On table print field on pchold.. on table print field on pchold..

Most of our excel books have multiple sheets. Each sheet populated with different data. Example sheet 1 has sales, sheet two has customer info, etc.
Any ideas
 
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rc
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Were you able to run the above code?
 
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InsideTGT
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In your APP FI command, make the entire filename lowercase - (smt1.mht). Or did you try that already?
 
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rc
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I tried that. Keep the ideas coming
 
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Tony A
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RC,

I have an APP folder on the reporting server with two files, one .fex and the other .mht. Because they are in the same folder I do not require a filedef as the .mht file is picked up from the APP PATH at runtime.

To create the .mht file, I created a new Excel workbook with three worksheets. I then saved this as 'EXCELTEMPLATE.mht' to the target directory as a "single file web page". The .fex I ran was -
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM  RETAIL_COST
     DEALER_COST
 BY  COUNTRY
SUM  RETAIL_COST
     DEALER_COST
 BY  COUNTRY
 BY  CAR
SUM  RETAIL_COST
     DEALER_COST
 BY  COUNTRY
 BY  CAR
 BY  MODEL
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
-* Uncomment the following line to get the verbose content.
-*ON TABLE SET BYDISPLAY ON
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K TEMPLATE 'EXCELTEMPLATE' SHEETNUMBER 2
END
-RUN


Worked straight away - no problem.

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,

Sing run like this works great but what I want to do is similar to below

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT DCOST
ON TABLE HOLD AS COMPXLSH FORMAT EXL2K TEMPLATE 'SmartBokerTemplate' SHEETNUMBER 2
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT MODEL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K CLOSE TEMPLATE 'COMPXLSH' SHEETNUMBER 3
END
-RUN

My ultimate goal is to send a compound report to an excel template. My definition of a compound report is where you have multiple queries i.e. On table print field on pchold.. on table print field on pchold..
 
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Tony A
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rc,

I'm not sure you will be able to do that using the template method as it would basically mean opening up a new copy of the web archive for the second output.

Have you considered using BYTOC? This works in a similar manner to RC where the output is split on the first by field. With BYTOC using EXL2K the split is sent to individual worksheets.

T


In FOCUS
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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No. This is my first webfocus report, learning as I go. Any documentation you can point me to?
 
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Piipster
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Try this one:
http://techsupport.informationbuilders.com/sps/12012126.html

It looks like your ON TABLE HOLD statment is missing an AS phrase.

ON TABLE HOLD AS COMPXLSH FORMAT EXL2K TEMPLATE 'SMT' SHEETNUMBER 2

-* note in the table request
-* the template filename is the HOLD file (.mht file) from prior
-* request.
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K TEMPLATE 'COMPXLSH' SHEETNUMBER 3


ttfn, kp


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