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ChannyS
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So after working with this for a bit I finally understand (or so I think) why you can not use Excel 2007 for the templates feature of WebFOCUS.

WebFOCUS requires you to save your template to a .mht file and leave it one sheet in that file where it will write the WebFOCUS data too. It will wipe out anything you have in that sheet. Therefore, you need to have another sheet with all the styling, graphs, preferences, etc. that you really want and have a macro that loads up the sheet with your preferences with the report data that showed up on the other sheet. However, what I have found out is that Excel 2007 does not save VBA for .mht files.

So, if I got that correct, and your organization has migrated to Office 2007, does that mean you're out the WebFOCUS Excel Templates feature?!?

If anyone has any insight on this I would greatly appreciate it.

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<JG>
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WebFOCUS reports using EXL2K TEMPLATE works fine for clients using Excel 2007.

HOWEVER the template MUST be created in Excel 2003.

The reason is that Microsoft nolonger support saving templates in .mht format.
 
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ChannyS
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Right - my question was what to do if your organization doesn't want to keep Excel 2003 around anymore...


Release: WebFOCUS 7.6.8
OS: Windows
Output formats: HTML, PDF, Excel, csv
 
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Jason K.
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Is there any new information on this?

We're trying to figure the impact of Excel 2007 on our webfocus reports.


Prod: Single Windows 2008 Server running Webfocus 7.7.03 Reporting server Web server IIS6/Tomcat, AS400 DB2 database.
 
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Francis Mariani
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I would open a case with Information Builders. It is in their best interest that features in current releases of WebFOCUS keep up with current releases of Microsoft Office. I just started enjoying the use of Excel templates and shudder at the thought of an upgrade to MS Office messing up the application.


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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N.Selph
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We did upgrade to Office 2007, and I opened a case at that time about creating templates in Excel.
Upshot is that we have to keep some copies of Excel 2002 around to maintain our existing templates (should changes be required).
It really impacts our ability to use this feature, as it is not really feasable to create new reports with Excel Templates.


(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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Francis Mariani
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Dare I say that that's a pretty cheesy solution?


Francis


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j.gross
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yeah, as in Limburger.
 
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Tony A
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Well I for one will always have a laptop with Office XP on it so Templates will not be a problem for me or my Clients.

Of course, this does mean that there could be a market opening Wink provide the specs and I'll quote you a price Smiler Razzer

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