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Tips n Techniques Jenny Lalik

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Jenny Lalik. Tips n Techniques. 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 . Accordion BY Tree Add a tree control to BY fields. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Tips n TechniquesJenny Lalik

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Report Styling Enhancements for 7.7

Accordion By RowExcel 2007 Output FormatHide Null Across ColumnsPass dates to EXL2KControl the “FOCUS” underlineDisplay Across TitlesMultiDrill 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.

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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

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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 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 Feature Table

What is supported in Release 7.7.02 Future Development

Demos 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

Workbooks based on Templates based on Excel 2007 .XLTX template files Supports native Excel 2007 formulas, tables, graphs, images, cell

formatting. Zipping the .XLSX

Done by JAVA layer WebFOCUS Client (Servlet) – default Reporting Server (JSCOM) – supports secured servers

Defined location in WebFOCUS Administration Console (IBIF_excelservurl) in FEX with SET EXCELSERVURL

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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 / PS

Demos well in the table based formatsHTML / 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

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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

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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

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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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Thank You

For more help visithttp://techsupport.informationbuilders.com/

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