Stylesheets: 33 is the magic number

Inevitably, I sometimes create reports that contain up to 40-45 individual reports within one big report.

Each report is a normal webfocus report containing css. Apparently, internet explorer has a maximum number of stylesheets that it can process. It seems to be around 33. After the 33rd stylesheet in the report processes, the remaining reports just look like unformatted plain text. Is there any way around this issue?

-Brian

Webfocus v7.6.1 on Windows XP

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Tony A

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Brian,

I take it from your example code that ALL your reports are HTML based? If so then why not use external stylesheets referenced once in the HTML and using -

ON TABLE SET STYLE *
......
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=columnname, CLASS=cssstylename, $
etc.
ENDSTYLE

in your reports.

That way all your styling should be perfect across all reports no matter how many there are.

T

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Thanks Tony.

Actually, I'm not sure how to do that. I've never used an external stylesheet with webfocus reports. Im not even sure where I would store the stylesheet...

But I'll do some looking via help.

-Brian

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-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Report Viewer</TITLE>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/approot/eqp/eqreport.css">
</HEAD>

<BODY>
!IBI.FIL.OUTPUT1;<BR>
!IBI.FIL.OUTPUT2;<BR>
!IBI.FIL.OUTPUT3;<BR>
</BODY>
</HTML>
-HTMLFORM END
-EXIT

Put your CSS file in one of your application folders.

Francis

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brian, are you using servlet? or cgi? or isapi?
I have found that , in addition to T and Francis's suggestion to simplify your style sheeting, that servlet will work, when i put out a report with 160, say, separate tables, but that isapi will choke. I don't know why,
but isapi also will choke if i use z-index along with abs positioning, so there are times i'll use servlet.

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quote:
Originally posted by susannah:
brian, are you using servlet? or cgi? or isapi?
I have found that , in addition to T and Francis's suggestion to simplify your style sheeting, that servlet will work, when i put out a report with 160, say, separate tables, but that isapi will choke. I don't know why,
but isapi also will choke if i use z-index along with abs positioning, so there are times i'll use servlet.

I am using servlet...or at least the URL shows http://yadayada.edu/ibi_apps/WFServlet

-Brian

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Hi Brian,

As per PM - forgive me if this is too basic.

An external stylesheet to WebFOCUS is a cascading stylesheet (or CSS file) to most Web coders. It combines the styling code in one place rather than distribute it about the file on each individual page component. You would normally see the component's styling like this (using an IMAGE tag as an example) -

<IMAGE STYLE="TOP:10px; LEFT:10px; WIDTH:200px; HEIGHT:150px; ... etc.">

To centralise the code from individual components, a style section is placed in the code (normally between the HEAD tags) and a reference is made to the style name given -

<HEAD>
<STYLE>
  .image1 {TOP:10px; LEFT:10px; WIDTH:200px; HEIGHT:150px;}
</STYLE
</HEAD>
...
<IMAGE CLASS=image1>

It can be placed into a web page in a couple of ways, the two most popular are instream and linked.
Instream is how WebFOCUS achieves the styling and is shown in the above code, linked will reference an external file and is achieved -

<link rel="stylesheet" href="url goes here" type="text/css">

As you will tell from this, this file has to be available as a web resource. This could be a www address if you wanted provided that the end User had access to the internet of course! It could be placed in the IBI_HTML directory of the client which is available via a web browser as - http://[servername]/IBI_HTML - and is sometimes the easiest location to use. I tend to use the apps folders on the client machine which are available as - http://[servername]/APPROOT/[app directory name] - where I tend to use BASEAPP for the app directory name.

WebFOCUS will include a link to an external CSS file as a result of using the environment variable CSSURL (yes, really!), so including -

SET CSSURL = /approot/baseapp/mystyles.css

in your code will allow you to access the contained styles in your style section -

ON TABLE SET STYLE *
  TYPE=HEADING, IMAGE=/approot/baseapp/web.gif, CLASS=image1, $
ENDSTYLE

One advantage of using a single external CSS file to apply your styles is that you can include as many reports in your single output without any fear of getting conflicting styles. Therefore greater control over your output.

I hope this helps,

Regards

Tony

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Brian,

One thing I forgot to mention is that when you are holding your output as HTMLFORMs and including them as per your example, then you should use Francis' method of including the stylesheet. That way you're only referencing the CSS file once and M$ IE shouldn't misbehave!

The only thing I would add to Francis' post is that when he says add it to your APPs folder, then he is refering to the ones on your client (or web) server. If you try to use the ones on your reporting server then they will not be found.

This, of course, refers to client and reporting server set-up on different machines

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T

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