Mickey Grackin IT Specialist National Institute of Standards and Technology WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 2 Agenda PDF versus HTML Discussion Traditional FOCUS Language Behavior General Formatting GRIDs and BORDERs SPACES and GAPs SQUEEZE and WRAP Live Demonstrations Other keywords Disclaimer: This presentation should in no way be construed as indicating that WebFOCUS or Information Builders, Inc. are endorsed by NIST or are recommended by NIST or that they are necessarily the best materials, instruments, software or suppliers for the purposes described.

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML PDF versus HTML Discussion

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 4 PDF versus HTML Discussion They are two different animals HTML Format What’s a page? I am a “living” document Dynamic Document Half Baked Document from WebFOCUS PDF Format Must be a page! I am a “Permanent” document Static Document Fully Baked Document from WebFOCUS WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML

General Formatting

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 6 General Formatting – Default Behavior WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML TABLE FILE CAR PRINT DEALER_COST RETAIL_COST SALES BY COUNTRY BY CAR BY MODEL BY BODYTYPE ON TABLE SET PAGE NOPAGE ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML or PDF END

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 7 GeneralFormatting – Default Behavior General Formatting – Default Behavior HTML Format One “page” GRID around TITLEs and DATA No SPACE between columns Dynamic column widths PDF Format Two pages No GRID around TITLEs and DATA GAPs between columns Fixed column widths WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML

8 General Formatting – WebFOCUS Style Sheet WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML ON TABLE SET STYLE * TYPE=REPORT, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE,$ ENDSTYLE FOCUS Language keywords to control formatting of the report elements WebFOCUS Style Sheet is NOT a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML GRIDs and BORDERs

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 10 General Formatting – GRIDs and BORDERs WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML TYPE=REPORT, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, GRID=ON,$ GRID keyword controls border lines around report elements PDF versus HTML with GRID look different VGRID and HGRID keywords BORDER keywords added in later releases (will discuss this later)

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML SPACEs and GAPs

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 12 General Formatting – SPACES and GAPs Traditional FOCUS Behavior SPACES – Places N spaces between columns Column width depends on length of the Field Format and Title values Very rarely used (if at all) in WebFOCUS SPACES setting Only works with STYLEMODE=FIXED WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML

13 General Formatting – SPACES and GAPs HTML Format SPACES setting has no affect Cell Spacing and Cell Padding Columns are only as wide as necessary PDF Format SPACES setting has no affect GAPs separate columns Columns as wide as Field Format or Title SQUEEZE and WRAP change the column width rules for both HTML and PDF formats WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML

SQUEEZE and WRAP

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 15 General Formatting – SQUEEZE and WRAP SQUEEZE=ON Removes unnecessary blanks HTML default behavior SQUEEZE=OFF Mimics traditional column width behavior PDF default behavior May be applied to the entire report or on specific report columns for both HTML and PDF formats SQUEEZE=[number] is also possible WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML

16 General Formatting – SQUEEZE and WRAP WRAP=ON Allows text to word wrap HTML default behavior with GRID=ON WRAP=OFF Does NOT allow text to word wrap HTML default behavior when SQUEEZE=OFF or GRID=OFF PDF default behavior WRAP=ON or OFF very rarely used WRAP=[number] is also possible WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML

17 General Formatting – SQUEEZE and WRAP ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON Allows full usage of SQUEEZE and WRAP for HTML format Translates WebFOCUS Style Sheet to Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) settings Has no affect on PDF format WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML

18 General Formatting – SQUEEZE and WRAP – HTML WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML TABLE FILE CAR PRINT DEALER_COST RETAIL_COST SALES BY COUNTRY BY CAR BY MODEL BY BODYTYPE ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON ON TABLE SET PAGE NOPAGE ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML ON TABLE SET STYLE * TYPE=REPORT, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, GRID=ON,$ ENDSTYLE END

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 19 General Formatting – SQUEEZE and WRAP – HTML WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML ON TABLE SET STYLE * TYPE=REPORT, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, GRID=ON,$ TYPE=REPORT, COLUMN=CAR, SQUEEZE=2,$ ENDSTYLE END SQUEEZE=[number] and HTML format Acts like maximum width setting It still WRAPs if necessary

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 20 General Formatting – SQUEEZE and WRAP – HTML WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML TYPE=REPORT, COLUMN=CAR, SQUEEZE=2, WRAP=OFF,$ SQUEEZE=[number], WRAP=OFF and HTML format Locks width of the column Column will not wrap

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 21 General Formatting – SQUEEZE and WRAP – HTML WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML TYPE=REPORT, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, GRID=ON, WRAP=OFF,$ TYPE=REPORT, COLUMN=CAR, SQUEEZE=2,$ TYPE=REPORT, COLUMN=MODEL, SQUEEZE=2,$ TYPE=REPORT, COLUMN=MODEL, WRAP=2,$

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 22 General Formatting – SQUEEZE and WRAP – PDF WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML TABLE FILE CAR PRINT DEALER_COST RETAIL_COST SALES BY COUNTRY BY CAR BY MODEL BY BODYTYPE ON TABLE SET PAGE NOPAGE ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF ON TABLE SET STYLE * TYPE=REPORT, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, GRID=ON,$ ENDSTYLE END

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 23 General Formatting – SQUEEZE and WRAP – PDF WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML ON TABLE SET STYLE * TYPE=REPORT, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, GRID=ON,$ TYPE=REPORT, COLUMN=CAR, SQUEEZE=2,$ ENDSTYLE END SQUEEZE=[number] and PDF format Locks width of the column It will truncate if necessary

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 24 General Formatting – SQUEEZE and WRAP – PDF WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML TYPE=REPORT, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, GRID=ON, SQUEEZE=2,$ TYPE=REPORT, COLUMN=MODEL, WRAP=2,$ TYPE=REPORT, COLUMN=MODEL, SQUEEZE=2,$ TYPE=REPORT, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, GRID=ON, WRAP=1.5,$

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML GAPs Revisted

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 26 General Formatting – GAPs WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML TABLE FILE CAR PRINT DEALER_COST RETAIL_COST SALES BY COUNTRY BY CAR BY MODEL BY BODYTYPE ON TABLE SET PAGE NOPAGE ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF ON TABLE SET STYLE * TYPE=REPORT, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, GRID=ON,$ ENDSTYLE END

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 27 General Formatting – GAPs WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML GAPs are the space between the column values and the gridlines that surround them on PDF format reports LEFTGAP, RIGHTGAP, TOPGAP and BOTTOMGAP Can be used for HTML format when: ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON TYPE=REPORT, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, GRID=ON, LEFTGAP=0,$

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 28 General Formatting – GAPs WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML TYPE=REPORT, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, GRID=ON, LEFTGAP=0, BOTTOMGAP=.25,$ ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML ON TABLE SET STYLE * TYPE=REPORT, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, GRID=ON, LEFTGAP=1, BOTTOMGAP=.25,$

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML BORDERs Revisted

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 30 General Formatting – BORDERs WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML TABLE FILE CAR PRINT DEALER_COST RETAIL_COST SALES BY COUNTRY BY CAR BY MODEL BY BODYTYPE ON TABLE SET PAGE NOPAGE ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML or PDF ON TABLE SET STYLE * TYPE=REPORT, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, SQUEEZE=ON,$ ENDSTYLE END

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 31 General Formatting – BORDERs WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML Alternative to GRID BORDER keywords allow better control of gridlines (borders) Consistent look between HTML and PDF Can change border STYLE, COLOR and thickness of each border line TYPE=REPORT, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, SQUEEZE=ON, BORDER=LIGHT,$

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 32 General Formatting – BORDERs WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML TYPE=REPORT, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, SQUEEZE=ON, BORDER-LEFT=HEAVY, BORDER-LEFT-STYLE=DASHED, BORDER-LEFT-COLOR=RGB( ),$ TYPE=REPORT, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, SQUEEZE=ON, BORDER=HEAVY, BORDER-STYLE=DASHED, BORDER-COLOR=RGB( ),$

WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML 33 Summary WebFOCUS Report Design: PDF vs. HTML This is just the tip of the iceberg WebFOCUS offers tremendous flexibility and control over report design for both the HTML and PDF formats Find this and more on Information Builders Developer Center  Tips and Techniques WebFOCUS Report Design – Part 1 WebFOCUS Report Design – Part 2

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