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ChannyS
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When I put a FOOTING on a report and run the report in Excel, I only get that footing at the very end of the report as opposed to being able to get it on every printed page of the Excel document. Is there any way to do this in FOCUS or do I need to create an Excel template which includes a real footing?


Release: WebFOCUS 7.6.8
OS: Windows
Output formats: HTML, PDF, Excel, csv
 
Posts: 256 | Registered: July 21, 2008Report This Post
Darin Lee
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That's because it isn't a true footing when it outputs to Excel. It's just dumped into a cell at wherever the page break occurred. Also the length of page (and printing functions) are handled much differently in Excel than in HTML or PDF output. If you're controlling you page-breaks in the WF code, it DOES work as in the following code:

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM  CAR
BY COUNTRY PAGE-BREAK
FOOTING
"PAGE FOOTING FOR COUNTRY: <COUNTRY"
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT EXL2K
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
     UNITS=IN,
     SQUEEZE=ON,
     ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
     GRID=OFF,
     FONT='TIMES NEW ROMAN',
     SIZE=10,
     COLOR='BLACK',
     BACKCOLOR='NONE',
     STYLE=NORMAL,
$
ENDSTYLE
END


However, when it outputs to Excel, who determines what a page is and where those page-breaks should occur? It's all Excel functionality from there--


Regards,

Darin


In FOCUS since 1991
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ChannyS
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That's why I figred I'd need to do it by creating an .mht file that has an Excel footing. I tried that though and I'm still having problems because apparently the sheet that Excel writes to wipes out everything you put in there (in which case what is the point of using the file?). If anyone has any insight on this it would be greatly appreciated!


Release: WebFOCUS 7.6.8
OS: Windows
Output formats: HTML, PDF, Excel, csv
 
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