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bug
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My client wanted to display hyphen "-" instead of zero values in an Excel report. I can only find the zero-suppressing format, which just display nothing in the cell. So here is the question:

1. Is it possible to do this natively in WebFOCUS?

2. If #1 is no, can I pass an Excel cell formatting string from WebFOCUS to the output spreadsheet?

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Ram Prasad E
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Change zeros to missing values and set NODATA to hypen("-"). Hope this should work.

Thanks,
Ram


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Ram Prasad E
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Here is the sample code.
SET NODATA = -
-RUN
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
SALES
COMPUTE NEW_COL/D12 MISSING ON = IF SALES EQ 0 THEN MISSING ELSE SALES;
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE HOLD AS EXL1 FORMAT HTMTABLE
END
-RUN
SET HTMLFORMTYPE='XLS'
-RUN
-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<HTML>
<BODY>
!IBI.FIL.EXL1;
</BODY>
</HTML>
-HTMLFORM END


Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Ram


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bug
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Thanks Ram! This may work for non-monetary data. When the numbers are dollar amount, a left-justified dollar sign ($) is required. If I define the missing data as "$ -" then the dollar sign is not justified with other non-zero value amounts. Any work around for this?


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Ram Prasad E
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yes, you are correct. If you require $ and space with proper alignment, then use FTOA instead of NODATA. Here is the sample code.
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
SALES
COMPUTE NEW_COL/A80 = IF SALES EQ 0 THEN '$ &|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;&|nbsp;-' ELSE FTOA(SALES,'(D20M)','A40');
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE HOLD AS EXL1 FORMAT HTMTABLE
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=NEW_COL, JUSTIFY=RIGHT, $
ENDSTYLE
END
-RUN
SET HTMLFORMTYPE='XLS'
-RUN
-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<HTML>
<BODY>
!IBI.FIL.EXL1;
</BODY>
</HTML>
-HTMLFORM END

Hope this helps.

Thanks,
Ram


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Alternate method is to use Excel Template. With this you can create your own customized report templates.


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FrankDutch
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Ram
If you do it this way I wonder if you still are able to ad the sum to that column, since it now is a string that looks like a value
In excel I am rather sure it won't give you a god result.

The template is the better solution




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databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7
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Thanks for the input, I'll close this.


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