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Latigresa
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I'm not sure if this is doable but I have users that want to be able to select a report to be either PDF or Excel but at different levels of the drilldown. We have 4 levels. I know how to make the variable go through all the drilldown as PDF and 2 levels on Excel. But they really want to be able to switch back and forth at every level without getting prompt to select. My HTML page has all the selection on the side.

All help is greatly appreciated. Thank you all in advance.

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j.gross
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Give the users two choices for each drilldown -- one for each output format. See "Creating Multiple Drill-Down Links".
 
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PBrightwell
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Another option is to put a link on the report allowing the user to "Export to Excel" (or PDF). Then rerun the report in that format. I have one group of reports that we present in HTML complete with headers, subtotals, logo etc. If the user clicks Export to Excel we rerun the report with only column titles so they have a sortable report.


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RSquared
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You can change the code for the output on each drilldown level to
/*
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT &WFFMT.(,,,,,).Select type of display output.

and Webfocus will prompt the user to select the output format. You can change the above line to only allow tha formats you want.


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Latigresa
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I did have it where it prompt the user to select which on on each report drilldown but thats not what they want. I'm looking into the Java format that j-gross suggested. I have never worked with Java so it's a bit challenging. I will update as soon as I have more information. But if anyone has any other suggestions please let me know. All help is greatly appreciated!!! Thanks again to all!!!


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GinnyJakes
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Global variable.


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RSquared
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My HTML page has all the selection on the side. if this is true, then you can pass all the Formats to the drilldown. eg

Format1='&format1', Format2='&format2' etc.
Each level will then pass down the Format for the lower level.


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j.gross
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Java?

I meant, just change the report's drilldown declaration in the Stylesheet from, say,
-DEFAULT &FMT='xls'

TYPE=DATA,
     COLUMN=FOO,
     ...,
     FOCEXEC=mydrilldown(FOO FMT='&FMT'),
$

to 
TYPE=DATA,
     COLUMN=N1,
     ...,
     DRILLMENUITEM='Details (Excel)',FOCEXEC=mydrilldown(FOO FMT='xls'),
     DRILLMENUITEM='Details (PDF)',  FOCEXEC=mydrilldown(FOO FMT='pdf'),
$

so the user gets to choose, at each stage, from the available formats. (That assumes a single drilldown report handles either output format, with &FMT indicating the selected format)


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Latigresa
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I'm sorry I got two of the sites I had up mixed up j.gross. :-( I was looking at what you sent me and also something else I had found and got them mixed up. I had not had a chance to look at it but I will tomorrow morning for sure. Thanks for getting me staight again. I tend to drift sometimes. :-(


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