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KevinH
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Current ver. of WebFocus is 5.3. On free form report, when "ONLINE-FMT=PDF", one report is displayed. When "ONLINE-FMT=HTML or DOC", the report is displayed twice. Any ideas as to why this happens?? Any help is appreciated.
 
Posts: 2 | Location: Baton Rouge, La. | Registered: November 09, 2005Report This Post
dhagen
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I would like to help, but I have no idea what a free form report is! Could you please explain?
 
Posts: 1102 | Location: Toronto, Ontario | Registered: May 26, 2004Report This Post
Carol Dobson
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I think Kevin means the data is displayed in the headings of the report with text and spot markers is called a Freeform report.



WebFOCUS 7.6.6/TomCat/Win2k3
 
Posts: 428 | Location: Springfield, MA | Registered: May 07, 2003Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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dhagen,

See chapter 18 in wf_crlang_53.pdf, "Creating Reports With WebFOCUS Language, Version 5 Release 3".


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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KevinH
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Whereas tabular and matrix reports present data in columns and rows, free-form report allows a customized layout of data by utilizing spot markers. Thanks dhagen
 
Posts: 2 | Location: Baton Rouge, La. | Registered: November 09, 2005Report This Post
Jeff Elam
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I think you have a painful road ahead of you. There are many things that WebFocus does well, but free-form reporting is not one of them. I'm sure it can be done, but with extreme difficulty.


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Posts: 44 | Location: St. Louis | Registered: September 17, 2004Report This Post
suzy_smith
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If you don't mind a fixed pitch font, you can use spot markers, IN column, etc. commands, just like you had in FOCUS. You just can't use STYLESHEETs.

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR IN 50
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE SET STYLEMODE FIXED
ON TABLE SET STYLESHEET OFF
END

Suzy
 
Posts: 124 | Location: Lebanon, New Hampshire | Registered: April 24, 2003Report This Post
susannah
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kevin, i suspect that what you're experiencing has nothing to do with free-form; could you post a simplified version of your fex so we can see how the output delivery is presented?



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