I have one prompt page, one html report output page and one xls report output page. On prompt page, I have a prompt that selects Output Format(HTML/XLS) and a generate button that generates the report. The generate button needs to display the output page in the correct format.
The 'Generate' button just does promptAction('finish'). The thing is that no matter what i select in the format (XLS,PDF etc),promptAction('finish') always generates the HTML output.
So is there a way to call something like promptAction('finish', varFormat)?
I normally do this the other way around - use native Cognos functionality to run it in the format required (i.e. using run with options). Then use a variable to detect the format that was applied then apply conditional formatting. In your case the would be rendering the XLS page if XLS was selected and render the HTML page if HTML was selected.
I remember having this problem with HTML vs PDF page rendering. I don't have Cognos in front of me but what i found out is that i had to update my conditional style/format because the following would not work right... it was a strange problem but i did come up with a workaround
old pseudo code that wouldnt' work.
Created Variable that says
Case RENDER_TYPE
When PDF
THEN PDF
WHEN HTML
THEN HTML
End
then i put on a conditional style using this variable to make the page visible or not... and this would not work.
what i had to do was this...
Case
When RENDER TYPE = 'HTML'
Then 'HTML'
Else 'PDF' <- or in your case EXL
End
of course its only good for two formats but for some strange reason trying to use any other value than HTML created weird behavior.
Thanks,
If Render Type <> 'HTML' then render PDF otherwise render HTML...
i had problems anytime referring to the render variable with anything other than HTML. So basically i just had to test when HTML then HTML else other format.
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I am working with Jodit editor on a react project. When I create a note and send to database, and displays the note, it displays fine, but when I try to edit the content and save, the rendered text/content now contains some html tags and this "<p><". I have tried using renderHTML to convert it to only plain text, but that doesn't seem to work. I really need help on converting to plain text alone. The render renderHTML works fine when creating a new note, but doesn't convert to plain text when I try to edit the content.
Before you use the Jodit contents in a non-Jodit environment, you'll need to use a utility that converts the HTML tags.
One library that does this already is html-to-text.
On the backend, the actual code is as simple as
const { conversion } = require('html-to-text');
let adjustedText = conversion('<p>Your string of HTML code here</p>');
... unless you want to feed optional parameters to the conversion() function, like wordwrap. See html-to-text documentation for that.
I have a simple one page report for quoting an opportunity from Acumatica ERP which is working fine.
However, my customer has a standard boilerplate page for terms and conditions. They would like that to be appended to all quotes being generated. But, I don't see a way of adding a pre-formatted page to a report at execution time.
I can do it in code. Create a button that calls the report, and then through .NET code add the conditions page that way. But it seems like this functionality might exist within the report writer itself.
Does it?
In the report footer section, this is the appropriate place to add the boilerplate page. Report footer prints as the last page. You could create a PNG file, in case your boilerplate page has graphics. Then embed the image file into the report footer section.
Be sure to set Page Break property as true
I am trying to add a print button to a Cognos report to print the whole report which when run is delievered as HTML pages. I used an HTML item and used the code:
<button type="button"onClick="window.print();return false;">Print Report</button>
This only prints the first page even after I select to print all pages. How do I make it to print all the pages?
That is the expected behavior of the code you've written. It's printing the HTML page. Cognos doesnt return all the results - it pages to 20 rows by default. The extra rows are not hidden on the page. Don't try to reinvent the wheel here. HTML was not designed for printing. Export to PDF and print from there.
I'm a coldfusion developer working on a reporting application to display information from a CFSTOREDPROC process. I've been able to get the data from my query to display correctly in a CFGRID, and I'm really happy with the display of the data. The grid saves a lot of time because it avoids using the CFOUTPUT tag and formatting the data in HTML for hundreds of reports.
All I would like to do is add a simple Disk Icon somewhere on the datagrid control that would save the contents of the datagrid and export it into an XLSX(2010) file that an end user could then manipulate in a spreadsheet program. This is important because the data needs to have a 'snapshot' at certain times of year saved.
Solutions Tried:
I looked into having a link from the report options page that would fire into a report_xls.cfm page but designing a page that catches all of the report options a second time seems dumb and would add thousands of CFM's to the website.
CFSPREADSHEET seems not to work for a variety of reasons. One is that the server seems to constantly fight me with the 'write' function in this tag. Another is that I don't know how to make the javascript work for this button to get the output that I want.
I also looked into doing this as a Javascript button that would fire based on the data entered. Although the data from a CFSTOREDPROC will display correctly if I use a CFOUTPUT block, CFGRID seems to have a hard time with all output styles except HTML. This has caused some difficulty with these solutions because the application doesn't spit out a neat HTML table but instead sends a javascript page section.
Raymond Camden's blog contains an entry Exporting from CFGRID that we used in our project.
The example in the article exports to PDF, but it is rather simple to modify the download.cfm file to export to Excel files as well:
You modify the file to generate the <table>...</table> HTML from his example in a <cfsavecontent variable="exportList"> tag, so that the #exportList# variable contains the table that will be shown in the spreadsheet.
Next we have a URL parameter mode that determines whether it is exported to PDF or Excel.
So the end of our download.cfm looks like the following:
<cfif url.mode EQ "PDF">
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="inline; filename=report.pdf">
<cfdocument format="pdf" orientation="landscape">
<cfoutput>#exportList#</cfoutput>
</cfdocument>
<cfelse>
<cfcontent type="application/vnd.ms-excel">
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="report.xls">
<cfoutput>#exportList#</cfoutput>
</cfif>
I have seen webpage with a PDF icon, where you could click on it to print the content of that webpage.
The page i am intending to add the print feature is designed in JSF, so is there anyway where i could add a print button, to get the webpage printed ?
No, you must do this yourself. Get some PDF library (for example iText), then get web page output (plain HTML). Then you will have to iterate thru HTML and create PDF version (for example build iText document). You will probably have to do this yourself, because some elements (javascript powered) will need to turn into static content. Nobody but you knows how the output should look like.