Report Painter Limitations

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The following topics describe several features that are available in the WebFOCUS language, but are not supported in Report Painter.


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Parsing Limitations

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Report Painter cannot currently parse reports (FOCEXECs) with the following WebFOCUS verbs, phrases, or logical relations used for record selection in WHERE and IF expressions.

If you attempt to open or edit a report that contains syntax that Report Painter cannot parse, a message box will appear indicating the error.



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Unsupported Verbs

Report Painter cannot parse the following verbs:

LIST
ADD


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Unsupported Phrases (Parsing)

Report Painter cannot parse the following phrases and syntax:

SUP-PRINT

Report Painter cannot parse the following phrases and syntax that use AND. These phrases are supported if AND is not used.

[AND] ROW-TOTAL
[AND] COLUMN-TOTAL
ON TABLE [PAGE-BREAK AND] SUBHEAD
ON TABLE [PAGE-BREAK AND] SUBFOOT
ON TABLE RECAP


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Unsupported Logical Relations in WHERE and IF Expressions

Report Painter cannot parse the following logical relations used for record selection in IF or WHERE expressions:

EXCEEDS
IS-MORE-THAN
IS-LESS-THAN
SIMILAR

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Report Painter Syntax Limitations

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Report Painter does not currently support the syntax described in the following topic. However, it does recognize these verbs and phrases and parse reports (FOCEXECs) containing them, without displaying a message.

If you attempt to open or edit a report that contains syntax that Report Painter recognizes but does not support, that syntax will be removed from the FOCEXEC in Report Painter.



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Unsupported Phrases

The following phrases and syntax are not currently supported by Report Painter and will be omitted from the FOCEXEC:

BY ROWS OVER
ACROSS COLUMNS
FOR OVER

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Report Painter Features Not Supported by HTML

Since your browser controls the interpretation of HTML commands, a few of the standard report styling features found in Report Painter are not supported in the HTML document output. However, several of these features (noted with asterisks *) are supported if you turn on the Cascading Style Sheets option in the Report Options Features tab.

For related information on StyleSheets, see the Creating Reports With WebFOCUS Language manual.


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