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 Tree
Add a tree control to BY fields
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 Row
SET EXPANDBYROW = {ON/OFF/ALL/N}
SET EXPANDBYROW = ON
TABLE FILE GGSALES
SUM
GGSALES.SALES01.BUDUNITS
GGSALES.SALES01.UNITS
GGSALES.SALES01.BUDDOLLARS
GGSALES.SALES01.DOLLARS
BY LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.REGION
BY LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.CATEGORY
BY LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.PRODUCT
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
END
•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 Row
Styling 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 Columns
SET 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 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 Text
SET 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” Underline
SET TITLELINE = {ON|OFF|SKIP}
 FOCUS Underline inserted in PDF, PPT, PS & DHTML
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Controlling the “FOCUS” Underline
SET TITLELINE=OFF
TABLE FILE GGSALES
SUM GGSALES.SALES01.UNITS
GGSALES.SALES01.DOLLARS
BY LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.CATEGORY
BY LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.PRODUCT
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
$
TYPE=REPORT,
FONT='TREBUCHET MS',
SIZE=10,
COLOR='BLACK',
STYLE=BOLD,
$
ENDSTYLE
END
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Controlling the “FOCUS” Underline
SET TITLELINE=SKIP
TABLE FILE GGSALES
SUM GGSALES.SALES01.UNITS
GGSALES.SALES01.DOLLARS
BY LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.CATEGORY
BY LOWEST GGSALES.SALES01.PRODUCT
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
$
TYPE=REPORT,
FONT='TREBUCHET MS',
SIZE=10,
COLOR='BLACK',
STYLE=BOLD,
$
ENDSTYLE
END
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Move the Across Titles (PDF Only)
SET ACROSSTITLE={ABOVE/SIDE}
ABOVE
SET ACROSSTITLE = SIDE
TABLE FILE GGSALES
SUM UNITS
BY REGION
ACROSS CATEGORY
ACROSS PRODUCT
WHERE CATEGORY NE 'Gifts';
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
BORDER=LIGHT,
FONT='TREBUCHET MS',
SIZE=10, $
ENDSTYLE
SIDE
END
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Multidrill control file for colors/fonts
 Edit and change highlighted
property for the background
color to match your
web portal colors
 Found in
ibi\WebFOCUS77\ibi_html\javaassist\ibi\html\js\multidrill.css
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Thank You
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