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patjohnson
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I have 4 differnt reports (iframes) in the HTML layout and I need to print the entire 4 reports as one print job. I tried copying the 4 reports to one iframe to print but the printed output said "No Query information to decode" even though I could see the report information in the iframe. Can someone please help me (a newbie to WebFocus) figure out how this can be done? Below is one version of javascript code that I thought should work but doesn't:

function button1_onclick(ctrl) {
var printHtml='';
printHtml += document.report1.document.body.innerHTML;
printHtml += document.report2.document.body.innerHTML;
printHtml += document.report3.document.body.innerHTML;
printHtml += document.report4.document.body.innerHTML;
printHtml += '';

document.report1.open();
document.report1.write(printHtml);
document.report1.close();

document.report1.focus();
document.report1.print();
}


WebFocus Version = 7.1.4
OS.Platform = Windows XP 5.1
Expected OUtput = HTML, Excel and PDF
 
Posts: 13 | Registered: July 23, 2007Report This Post
Darin Lee
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I'm not much for Javascript, but is the function you included part of the larger HTML page that would know about each separate frame or is it within one of the frames? I don't know if you can reference the content of the other frames within the function tied inside of on of the frames (but could easily be mistaken).
If nothing else you could add a link to a fex which would -INCLUDE all of the procedures and run them consecutively into the same frame.


Regards,

Darin


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patjohnson
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I created 4 seperate fex files using report painter. I then used HTML Layout Painter to create the layout, which displays each report on the screen in quadrant-fashion. The Javascript comes into play because when I try to add an "on click" event handler, the HTML Layout painter dumps me into the Javascript portion of the HTML code. The HTML code does have reference to all 4 reports and if I merely set the focus [i.e., document.report1.focus()] to the specific report and then request print [i.e. document.report1.print()] I can get each report to print. The problem is that using this "focus-print" method for each report causes the print pop-up window (the one that asks for what printer, how many pages, etc.) to appear 4 times. My users only want to see the print pop-up window once.


WebFocus Version = 7.1.4
OS.Platform = Windows XP 5.1
Expected OUtput = HTML, Excel and PDF
 
Posts: 13 | Registered: July 23, 2007Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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What you're asking for and doing in the JavaScript is far from normal WebFOCUS programming.

Have you tried the web browser Print button? How does it behave?


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
Posts: 10577 | Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Registered: April 27, 2005Report This Post
patjohnson
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I've tried the web browser print menu item, the print button and the javascript command of window.print(). For each method, the only thing that gets printed is what is visible on the screen. Each of the 4 reports has at least 2 pages of info, so the majority of each report does not get printed using the browser print capabilities.


WebFocus Version = 7.1.4
OS.Platform = Windows XP 5.1
Expected OUtput = HTML, Excel and PDF
 
Posts: 13 | Registered: July 23, 2007Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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Then you're not going to be able to print all four quadrants in one shot - it's just not proper web browser behaviour and has nothing to do with WebFOCUS. You have the choice of creating one HTML page with all four reports within in it, one report in each of four TD cells within an HTML TABLE, or using DHTML DIV if you want to get more sophisticated.

Cheers.


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
Posts: 10577 | Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Registered: April 27, 2005Report This Post
patjohnson
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Okay...I figured it out (only took all day!!!) The following code combines all the text from the 4 reports and writes it to a new browser window. The user can now use the browser print capabilities to print out the data. Thanks all for your help!!

function button1_onclick(ctrl) {
var printHtml='';
printHtml += document.report1.document.body.innerHTML;
printHtml += document.report2.document.body.innerHTML;
printHtml += document.report3.document.body.innerHTML;
printHtml += document.report4.document.body.innerHTML;
printHtml += '';

var printerWindow = window.open("about:blank");
printerWindow.document.write(printHtml);
}


WebFocus Version = 7.1.4
OS.Platform = Windows XP 5.1
Expected OUtput = HTML, Excel and PDF
 
Posts: 13 | Registered: July 23, 2007Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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Pat,

That's very interesting. Thanks for the DHTML JS code.

Cheers.


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
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