Tips n Techniques
Jenny Lalik
Report Styling Enhancements for 7.7
Accordion By Row
Excel 2007 Output Format
Hide Null Across Columns
Pass dates to EXL2K
Control the “FOCUS” underline
Display Across Titles
MultiDrill list box
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Accordion BY TreeAdd a tree control to BY fields
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An interactive HTML tree interface to data aggregated at multiple sort levels.
Initial view presents highest dimension sort field and aggregated measures.
Click to open each sort key value and view the next dimension and the associated aggregated measures.
Accordion By RowSET EXPANDBYROW = {ON/OFF/ALL/N}
SET EXPANDBYROW = ONTABLE FILE GGSALESSUM GGSALES.SALES01.BUDUNITS GGSALES.SALES01.UNITS GGSALES.SALES01.BUDDOLLARS GGSALES.SALES01.DOLLARSBY LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.REGIONBY LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.CATEGORYBY LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.PRODUCTON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTMLON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ONEND
•Sets subtotals (LAST BY-1) •Sets subtotals above the data•Turns off features not supported:
•Page Numbers•Report Totals•Borders
•Presents open at any level •ON/ALL / N
Accordion By RowStyling Features Not Supported
EXPANDBYROW is set OFF in reports with: Multi-verb requests. PRINT/LIST. OVER. TABLEF. ROW -TOTAL. ON field RECAP. FOR. IN. SEQUENCE. PAGENUM. SUBHEAD.
Any BORDER keywords are ignored.
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Accordion By Row Demo
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Excel 2007 Output Format (EXL07)Production in Release 7.7.02
Excel 2007 Workbooks & Templates
Core Styling Features
Templates
From .MHT to .XLTX
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What WebFOCUS generates for FORMAT EXL07
Workbooks - .XLSX XML component files define the workbook characteristics
Zipped into single binary .XLSX file Done by JAVA layer
WebFOCUS Client (Servlet) – default Reporting Server (JSCOM) – supports secured servers
Define location in WebFOCUS Administration Console (IBIF_excelservurl) in FEX with SET EXCELSERVURL
Workbooks based on Templates based on Excel 2007 .XLTX template files Supports native Excel 2007 formulas, tables, graphs, images, cell
formatting.
Hide Null Across ColumnsSET HIDENULLACRS = {ON|OFF}
Hide ACROSS columns
that are completely empty (null / missing)
within each sort key page break.
{ON|BY} fieldname PAGE-BREAK
Designed to support page oriented formats
PDF / DHTML / PPT / PSDemos well in the table based formats
HTML / EXL2K / EXL07
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Hide Null Across Columns Standard HTML Across Report (DEFAULT)
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Hide Null Across Columns HTML Across Report with SET HIDENULLACRS = ON
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EXL2K: Dates As Formatted Values OR TextSET EXL2KTXTDATE = {TEXT|VALUE}
Pass dates to EXL2K as values with formats rather than text
FOCUS Date formats translated into Excel format masks
Date Components that remain translated text Dates Without a Day Component Quarter Formats Date Components for Use in Excel Formulas
EXL07 works with VALUE by default
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EXL2KTXTDATE: TEXT vs VALUE
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Control the “FOCUS” UnderlineSET TITLELINE = {ON|OFF|SKIP}
FOCUS Underline inserted in PDF, PPT, PS & DHTML
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Controlling the “FOCUS” Underline
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SET TITLELINE=OFFTABLE FILE GGSALESSUM GGSALES.SALES01.UNITS GGSALES.SALES01.DOLLARSBY LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.CATEGORYBY LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.PRODUCTON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD ON TABLE NOTOTALON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDFON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ONON TABLE SET STYLE *$TYPE=REPORT, FONT='TREBUCHET MS', SIZE=10, COLOR='BLACK', STYLE=BOLD,$ENDSTYLEEND
Controlling the “FOCUS” Underline
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SET TITLELINE=SKIPTABLE FILE GGSALESSUM GGSALES.SALES01.UNITS GGSALES.SALES01.DOLLARSBY LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.CATEGORYBY LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.PRODUCTON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD ON TABLE NOTOTALON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDFON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ONON TABLE SET STYLE *$TYPE=REPORT, FONT='TREBUCHET MS', SIZE=10, COLOR='BLACK', STYLE=BOLD,$ENDSTYLEEND
Move the Across Titles (PDF Only)SET ACROSSTITLE={ABOVE/SIDE}
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SET ACROSSTITLE = SIDETABLE FILE GGSALESSUM UNITSBY REGIONACROSS CATEGORYACROSS PRODUCTWHERE CATEGORY NE 'Gifts';ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDFON TABLE SET STYLE * BORDER=LIGHT, FONT='TREBUCHET MS', SIZE=10, $ENDSTYLEEND
ABOVE
SIDE
Multidrill control file for colors/fonts
Edit and change highlightedproperty for the background
color to match yourweb portal colors
Found in ibi\WebFOCUS77\ibi_html\javaassist\ibi\html\js\multidrill.css
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