Good Day;

I am doing some conditional formating in the repot header of a report in the GUI. I am trying to fomat text with a strikethrough format. I have searched and the only information I have found is to do it in the HTML layout painter and that is for the lunch page. I want the format to occur in the report itself. Any suggestions?

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kfr,

There is not an option for using strike through within Report Painter, but if there was it would be accessible from the "style" tab within "Options".

If your output is -

• HTML - then you may be able to add CSS styling to your output.
  
• PDF - then check out Warren's (Waz) excellent method of controlling the PDF output.
  
• EXL2K - hmmm, not sure.

T

Thank you for the info. Is there a way then to make text not appear with the condition. I orrigianly made the text white, but it still printed when it was sent to the printer...


Thanks

There is a post on conditional text in the Forum as I remember posting an answer. You can use a DEFINE with an IF condition to set the contents of a field which you then put in the header. If your condition is true, the text will appear; if false, it will not.

DEFINE FILE filename
HDRLINE/A50=IF CONDITION EQ 'TRUE' THEN 'THIS IS MY HEADING TEXT' ELSE ' ';
END
TABLE FILE filename
HEADING
"<HDRLINE"
...rest of program
END  

Remember the above example is pseudo-code. You must customize it to your needs.

And please do some searching before posting.

Thanks...

As Tony says, HTML do it with CSS styling. With Excel, you should be able to to do the same with some of the techniques in this forum, requires the use of CSS.

For PDF, you could try this

TABLE FILE CAR
HEADING
"TEXT<+0>————"
PRINT COUNTRY
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
 TYPE=HEADING, LINE=1, OBJECT=TEXT, ITEM=1, POSITION=1,$
 TYPE=HEADING, LINE=1, OBJECT=TEXT, ITEM=2, POSITION=1,$
ENDSTYLE
END

its not elegant, but works

Waz,

Nice use of style! I guess we'd have to be careful on the use of overstrike character to get a clear output.

T

Tony, you are so right.

But, the nice thing with this technique is you can change the colour of the overstrike, make it bold, etc.

The only issue is proportional fonts, matching the number of characters may make the overstrike longer than the text.

If your desired output is HTML, you can apply it in your DEFINE, like:

 NEWFIELD/A50 = '<strike>'||FIELDNAME||'</strike>'; 

Or with HTML5:

 [CODE] NEWFIELD/A50 = '<del>'||FIELDNAME||'</del>'; 

[/CODE]

Hopefully this solves your issue after five years...

Bye

i use this

.myline {text-decoration:line}

in my -HTMLFORM section
and put
TYPE=HEADING,ITEM=2,CLASS=myline, $
or somesuch in my fex.

i also put different class features, for fun, such as:

<STYLE>
a,a:visited {color:#456496 ; text-decoration:none}
a:hover, a:active{color:#BF0D23 ;  text-decoration:underline}
.domino {text-align:center; font-family:ARIAL; font-size:9pt;font-variant:small-caps; color:#000000; background-color:#F0F0F0;}

</style>

domino is my personal fav, it puts the text in smallcaps which is quite elegant delicious for titles.

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