I can’t find a way to save a single BOI report as just one stand-alone HTML file. I don’t want the frame at the bottom (because there is only one table/report) or the page with the link - Just that HTML file. I know it’s generated, as I can see it and access it seperately - but I want to send the report to document Agent and have that one html file sent out.
Any suggestions? Thanks in advance!!!
Lisa Main
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Lisa
Document Agent creates a folder with the name of the file, a sub folder with the name of the report within the file and the target HTML file (the one that you want) inside that folder. It also produces a file, within the first folder, which is only a link to that HTML file. I link my web pages directly to the target HTML file, bypassing the link created by Document Agent and it works OK. Like you I would like to be able to send just the one file, but it seems Business Objects needs to create the folders to cope with the possibility of having more than one report within a file.
Ron Findlay
I can’t find a way to save a single BOI report as just one stand-alone HTML file. I don’t want the frame at the bottom (because there is only one table/report) or the page with the link - Just that HTML file. I know it’s generated, as I can see it and access it seperately - but I want to send the report to document Agent and have that one html file sent out.
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Ron,
In you reply to Lisa you say-
I link my web pages directly to the target HTML file, bypassing the link
created by Document
Agent and it works OK.
We are doing something similar although there is a major problem (which I have logged as an enhancement request with BusObj) in that if you create a ‘section-by-section’ report BusObj creates all the files with n.htm names eg 0.htm, 1.htm, 2.htm etc where the n has no meaning as to the actual section/master object. Every time the report is rerun with additional data etc the files will contain different info (eg on first run 0.htm may contain the section ‘Bzzzz’ and the 1.htm the section ‘Czzzz’ but if some data is added to the database and the report rerun 0.htm could be ‘Azzzz’ and then 1.htm would be ‘Bzzzz’ etc.). The file that BusObj generates, doclinks.htm, contains the mappings but there is no easy way to use this file to find out what .htm file the external web pages should be calling through a link.
An example that we need to address is we run a report which would result in 3500 sections/masters. From another web site (or from a calling app) we need to open the specific .htm file generated by BusObj relating to a specific item. This can’t be done as far as I know without doing what we’re doing at the moment which is generating our own mapping table in Oracle by using the same SQL as the report uses and writing the results to the table with an associated sequence generator.
Have you found an easier way?
Regards
Jonathan
Project Leader
Global Medical IS
jc14547@glaxowellcome.co.uk
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In a message dated 98-06-17 14:05:41 EDT, you write:
I can’t find a way to save a single BOI report as just one stand-alone HTML
file. I don’t want the frame at the bottom (because there is only one table/report) or the page with the link - Just that HTML file. I know it’s generated, as I can see it and access it seperately - but I want to send
the
report to document Agent and have that one html file sent out.
Lisa:
When you select the Save As HTML item (interactively) from the menu, you are presented with a list of options. One of those options is to save a single report, selected reports, or all reports from the document. It is easy to select the single report that you want. However, you still get a “root” file that contains a link to the ultimate report html file which is in its own directory.
The purpose for storing the report in its own directory is to combine all of the “potential” different files that are required to create the html page. Each graph shows up as a separate gif file, for example. If you are not using graphs on your report, and if you are exporting only a single report, then the directory structure is possibly not necessary. However, I don’t know of a way to turn off this feature.
If you are using a script to do this processing via Doc Agent, then you would list only that one report in the “Save As HTML” command syntax. The unrequired files can then be deleted through the file I/O options in the scripting language. The Name function can be used to rename and/or move a file, and the Kill function can be used to remove unwanted files and/or directories. In other words, let BusObj do its thing and then clean up afterwards with your Doc Agent script.
Regards,
Dave Rathbun
Integra Solutions
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On 18 June Jonathan Cirkel replied
We are doing something similar although there is a major problem (which I have logged as an enhancement request with BusObj) in that if you create a section-by-section’ report BusObj creates all the files with n.htm names
eg
0.htm, 1.htm, 2.htm etc where the n has no meaning as to the actual section/master object. Every time the report is rerun with additional data etc the files will contain different info
Jonathan
I have not tried a report like this using Document Agent. The ones I referred to in my reply to Lisa are all fairly uncomplicated so I’m afraid I can’t offer you even a get-around solution.
Ron
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Andrea,
>> We try to generate reports in a format accessible to everyone
without the
>> need to buy BO-licenses. HTML-format seemed to be very promising
since it
>> can be generated via the DAS.
>If you invest some time in scaling the font and columns down in the
.rep file then
>export, the files should be printable from the browser.
Just an addition to Lauren’s suggestion (which is what we do) - check the
default margin settings for your browser printers and set the BusObj
settings to the same. If you then squeeze the report within the margins (ie
manually make it fit to a page) then when you export to HTML you know that
the report will fit on the ‘browser’ page as well.
Regards
Jonathan
Project Leader
Management and Commercial Systems
Global Medical, Regulatory and Product Strategy (GMRPS) IS
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All,
I have a report that I’m trying to save as html to make available via a link on our intranet. However, the report loses its format when I save it as HTML. I’ve tried various options on the save as html menu - free form, section by section, no free form no section by section. The report still loses its format. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Tim Freeman
HPSJ
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Tim,
I just got back from the User Conference. I brought with me a report that looked fine in full client but terrible in WebI when displayed as html. I finally got some help with this from a B/O tech person at the conference.
First, the conversion to html from your B/O formatting is an imperfect process. I’m not sure if this is the conversion process that B/O uses or that html just can’t handle the fancy formatting that B/O lets you do. Also, the way the report appears depends on what browser you’re using. I was using Netscape and trying to get enhanced document viewing to work. It requires a plug-in and from what I see there was a bug with this that is solved in 5.1.3. The tech person said that IE works better with enhanced document viewing. He also suggested viewing the report in PDF format instead.
Don’t know if your users have InfoView. If so, under the options when they get the welcome page is a place to set viewing settings. They can check either enhanced document viewer or view as pdf and the formatting should show up correctly. If they don’t have InfoView, it sounds like IE is the best bet, though no guarantees that your formatting will appear correctly in html.
Good luck.
Debbie Kelly
Museum Informatics Project
University of California, Berkeley
dkelly@socrates.berkeley.edu
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Hi All,
I am trying to save a business Object document as an HTML file using - Save as HTML option from file menu. After saving, when I try to open that html file from excel, it shows a blank page…
Am I doing something wrong here … or do I need to specify anything in the HTML options dialogue box that appears while saving the file ?
Thanks in advance
Anjan
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There is another html file under the directory…open the other file…
you are opening the wrong one…
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In a message dated Tue, 11 Dec 2001 5:31:47 PM Eastern Standard Time, Anjan Roy anjanroy@YAHOO.COM writes:
Hi All,
I am trying to save a business Object document as an HTML file using - Save as HTML option from file menu. After saving, when I try to open that html file from excel, it shows a blank page…
When you save as HTML, let’s say in the UserDocs directory… there will be a file called DOCUMENT1.HTML. (For example) There will also be a directory called DOCUMENT1. The main file is the frameset commands (BusObj uses frames to display HTML output), and will not have any actual data in it.
If you have a report generated “all in one page” then the file you need is in the subdirectory. If you have a report generated “section by section” then the pages will be 1.html, 2.html, 3.html… and so on for each section value.
Hope this helps…
Regards,
Dave Rathbun
Integra Solutions
www.islink.com
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That works…
But when I send a file thru BCA and save it via web server and specify the same HTML options… I can find the report in document1.html file and not documen1 folder. Why this different behaviour ?
Anjan
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There is another html file under the directory…open the other file…
you are opening the wrong one…
Hi All,
I am trying to save a business Object document as an HTML file using - Save as HTML option from file menu. After saving, when I
try to open that html file from excel, it shows a blank page…
Am I doing something wrong here … or do I need to specify anything in the HTML options dialogue box that appears while saving the file ?
Thanks in advance
Anjan
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If you want to open the report in a browswer, it works fine. The top file only contains pointers to all of the others.
If you want Excel, you have to find the specific file that contains the data. If you really want to put the report into Excel, Save as RTF or something and you’ll be better off.
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