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jammer
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I used to be able to create a fex with excel drill down to another excel drilldown just be having

TYPE=DATA,
COLUMN=N2,
FOCEXEC=app/drillrpt,
in the style sheet.

That is not working anymore for some reason (yet it does on some older fex created prior to today)
I got it to work by added the following code:


SET FOCEXURL = http://SERVER/ibi_apps/WFServlet


TYPE=DATA,
COLUMN=N2,
FOCEXEC=app/drillrpt.fex(IBIF_webapp='/ibi_apps' IBIC_server='EDASERVE' IBIWF_msgviewer='OFF' IBIAPP_app='fad_irf_target' IBIMR_drill='X,fadomain/fadomain.htm' IBIMR_random=RAND),

But I don't know why this started happening - I don't want to do it this way.

I found out that the hyperlink was not being created but a filelink was

file:///c:\ibi_apps/WFServlet%3fIBIF_webapp=\ibi_apps&IBIC_server=EDASERVE&IBIWF_msgviewer=OFF&&IBIMR_drill=X,fadomain/fadomain.htm&IBIF_ex=app\j2&CLICKED_ON=&

the hyperlink used to start with http://SERVER

Any clues what happened? (I'm on version 7.63)


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dhagen
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What version of excel?


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jammer -
I ran into the exact same issue a few months back. A mouse-over the drilldown link was displaying something like C:\.... and not the (servername\...) needed for drilldown.

The culprit turned out to be another Excel related product that was just installed. In my case it was the "SAS add-on for MS-Excel". It is a quick tool to let users get to SAS from within an excel spreadsheet, by adding a SAS option on the GUI menu across the top. Uninstalling this product restored my drill-down links.

Did you have any such s/w installed on your PC recently ? In some places, the network admins actually "push" some s/w to PCs without the user knowing about. Check it out.

Hope that helps.
Sandeep Mamidenna


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EXCEL 2003


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Sandeep

Not that I know of but it is a development server so anything is possible.

We did create a new dev server which we set up to access dev studio on the network - not sure if that could have done something.

How did you fix things?


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Jammer,

Is the spreadsheet opening in the browser or in Excel?

I've seen this behaviour when the spreadsheet has opened in Excel application itself rather than the browser add-in or when the spreadsheet has been saved and reopened.

Regards

Stuart


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jammer
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Stuart,

I think you are onto something.

On one server I get the filelink (file///) the other a hyperlink (http://) Both open in excel 2003.

I do notice the server where it works the name of spreadsheet is WFServlet ,but the server that is not working has a random name xbwjj[1].xht

Does this have something to do with redirection? Do you you know what is causing this?

Thanks
John


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