Tick Symbol

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Hi All,

Is it possible to have a Tick (&#10003:wink: symbol in Webi report columns. I am trying to put a Tick (&#10003:wink: symbol using Alerter. I tried copying the symbol in to the Alerter formula bar, but it isnt accepting. If there is a way, please let me know.
Thanks…

JohnJustus :us: (BOB member since 2007-06-25)

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Not possible in WebI.
The only working place is DeskI wirh WEBDING font type

KhoushikTTT :us: (BOB member since 2005-02-24)

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Hi,

Thanks for the information. Is there any other symbols I can use instead of Tick?
Thanks…

JohnJustus :us: (BOB member since 2007-06-25)

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Work around - What are even going to do without this tantra

Save jpeg images of the sysmbols you are going to utilize in your alreters in a shared network folder.

  1. Create new variable objects for your symbols
tick mark=\\Path to shared folder\tick.jpg
Closed mark=\\Path to shared folder\closed.jpg

  1. Define your alerter and in operands section click the three dots to browse for objects and variables and select the [tick mark] variable and vice-versa.

  2. set the cell format to read as “Image URl”

PS: I tried with a cell content to display company logo in the report. Above steps are recommendation for conditional image display, havent tried it myself. Give it a try and let us know.

KhoushikTTT :us: (BOB member since 2005-02-24)

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Maybe it’s just me, but the square root symbol looks pretty much like a tick – and it’s available in the default Arial font.
Would that do?

TomH :uk: (BOB member since 2008-09-17)

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You can copy various symbols from charmap and paste in your webi report. Probably you can find tick mark there too

pawan8785 (BOB member since 2008-09-09)

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Hi Tom,
I would try that. I am on the alerter page and selected Arial , but how do I put the square root symbol in the formula editor.
Thanks…

JohnJustus :us: (BOB member since 2007-06-25)

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On your Windows start menu go to Accessories -> System Tools -> Character Map.
Scroll down and you’ll see the symbol.
Highlight it and click on ‘Select’ and then ‘Copy’. It is then in your clipboard ready to be pasted wherever you need it.

TomH :uk: (BOB member since 2008-09-17)

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Hi Tom, That worked great, thanks…

JohnJustus :us: (BOB member since 2007-06-25)

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Hi,

The character font ‘Wingdings 2’ has the TicK symbol.

For that, please type the P(use upper case) in the cell and change the font to Wingdings 2. This has the tick symbol.

I hope this helps you…

s.sridhar :india: (BOB member since 2010-04-22)

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Can you explain where Wingdings 2 is in the Webi font list?

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Hi,

By default that font won’t be there, I think you need add the information about the font in the defaultfont.xml file located inside the subfolder of Business Objects installation folder.

S_Shetty (BOB member since 2010-07-15)

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Exactly - the solution isn’t as straight forward as appears, especially if Wingdings 2 does not exist on the server.

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a simple solution would be to use the below symbol in the webi variable.

="√"

It works.

(thats a squareroot symbol MS Word though)

Muna :india: (BOB member since 2008-08-05)

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Hi,

We were experiencing the same issue and your solution work perfectly using the supplied code √ and formatting as HTML

I’d like to know what each of the components stand for.

Is the & and indicator that this is hex code?

Is the # and indicator that the code starts here?

What is the 8730?

Am I on the right path or just so hopelssly lost.

Any help and explanation would be gratefully received.

Regards
Zinger

aardvarck :australia: (BOB member since 2007-09-17)

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Hi,

Check the HTML symbols and their codes for example here:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_symbols.asp

Marek Chladny :slovakia: (BOB member since 2003-11-27)

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Thank you Marek,

Way off the mark with my ass_umptions.

aardvarck :australia: (BOB member since 2007-09-17)