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IronMaiden
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I have a report that has a 3 trier drilldown to it State, City, Muni. Is there a way to allow the user to drill down to any level (via HTML) and then select an output option (EXCEL, PDF,PRINTER)?

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Francis Mariani
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Check this out:

HTML Report with Excel and PDF options


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There really isn't a way to "two-step' this process, but here are two different ways to accomplish what you want:

Give them a multidrill option where each option and each format is provided. Could look ugly because you have to have an option for every possibility (State/Excel, State/PDF, City/Excel, City/PDF, etc.) (BTW, there isn't an output option for PRINTER - that would probably just be PDF). My approach would probably be to run it in whatever the current output format is (say HTML) and then put a couple links on the drill down report to re-run itself passing the same parm values, only changing the output format to either Excel or PDF.


Regards,

Darin


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susannah
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grab a few icons off the web, or off your desktop, for adobe and excel and activereports and stick them in your ibi_html/vis directory on your server.
Then define these icons:
PDF/A100    = IF '&WFFMT'   IS 'HTML' THEN
  '<IMG TITLE="PDF" SRC="/ibi_html/vis/pdf.gif" style="border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;" >'
   ELSE ' ';
EXCEL/A100  = IF '&WFFMT'   IS 'HTML' THEN
  '<IMG TITLE="EXCEL" SRC="/ibi_html/vis/excel.gif"  style="border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;"> ' ELSE ' ';
ACTIVE/A200 = IF '&WFFMT'   IS 'HTML' THEN
  '<IMG TITLE="Active Report" SRC="/ibi_html/vis/activereport.jpg" 
 height=18 style="border: 1px solid #FFFFFF;"> ' ELSE ' ';


In your report, plop these icons in the 1st row of your heading
HEADING
"<PDF<+0><EXCEL<+0><ACTIVE"

then write ordinary drilldowns
TYPE=HEADING,LINE=1,ITEM=1,FOCEXEC=thisfex(WFFMT='PDF' \
...all the others you need
),$
TYPE=HEADING,LINE=1,ITEM=3,FOCEXEC=thisfex(WFFMT='EXL2K' \
...etc...you get the idea. Darin said all this..i just added some color...



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Darin Lee
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Thanks for the color commentary Smiler

That's exactly what I was talking about - was just too lazy to spell it all out I guess.


Regards,

Darin


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IronMaiden
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Susannah when you say Define these icons where would that be? In the fex file?


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yes



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IronMaiden
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I put it at the top of the code and it bombs out. Are there certain tags that need to go around it? DOes it need to be placed in any particular order?


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susannah
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sounds to me as though you need a basic course in the language and its structure.
that would be your next stop.
-s



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OK I got all the code in place. I defined my virual fields for the two icons. Then I placed them on the heading and set up the two TYPE=HEADING calls just like Susannah suggested. It works but it took a one second query and changed it into about 2 minutes. Any ideas why this would happen? The sql is doing a sum and only returning 12 records.


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Francis Mariani
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Then your SQL is not efficient, probably because the virtual fields were not defined in the correct location. If you defined them in the section of the program that extracts data from the DBMS tables, the virtual fields are defined for each input row, not just for the output rows. The virtual fields should be defined after the extracted data is sent to a hold file.

By the way, did you take a look at my previous suggestion regarding "HTML Report with Excel and PDF options"?


Francis


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Francis,
I am trying to use you code. I have a html page that is calling the (external) procedure that I have used your code in. I get the html display but when I run the others I get page not found. The New Url is
http://someserver.com/ibi_apps...=P&RANDOM=somenumber. Any suggestions?


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Francis Mariani
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IM,

It looks like the form that originally submitted the request has a METHOD of POST, therefor the URL does not contain the name of the FEX, nor the passed variables. I suppose my technique is now a little old-fashioned as it will only work on URLs where the form that submits the request has a METHOD of GET.

JavaScript or AJAX could probably be used to resubmit the original request, changing the Output format form field

My apologies.


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Check out this post: DEFINE Breaks SQL Aggregation


quote:
Originally posted by IronMaiden:
OK I got all the code in place. I defined my virual fields for the two icons. Then I placed them on the heading and set up the two TYPE=HEADING calls just like Susannah suggested. It works but it took a one second query and changed it into about 2 minutes. Any ideas why this would happen? The sql is doing a sum and only returning 12 records.


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