Displaying Pop-up Field Descriptions for Column Titles

How to:

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You can have pop-up field descriptions display in an HTML report when the mouse pointer is positioned over column titles. Field description text displays in a pop-up box near the column title using the default font for the report. Pop-up text appears for report column titles including titles created with ACROSS phrases and stacked column titles created with OVER phrases.

The pop-up text displayed for a column title is defined by the Description attribute in the Master File for the corresponding field. If a column title has no Description entry in the Master File, then no pop-up box is generated when your mouse is positioned over the title.

For more information about the Description attribute, see Null or MISSING Values: MISSING in Describing an Individual Field in the Describing Data With WebFOCUS Language manual.
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Syntax: How to Use the POPUPDESC Command
SET POPUPDESC = {ON|OFF}

where:

ON
Enables pop-up field descriptions when your mouse pointer is positioned over column titles.
OFF
Disables pop-up field descriptions when your mouse pointer is positioned over column titles. OFF is the default value.
Example: Using the POPUPDESC Command

The Master File referenced by the report contains the following:

FIELD=UNITS, ALIAS=E10, FORMAT=I08, TITLE='Unit Sales',
 DESC='Number of units sold',$

The code used to create the report is:

TABLE FILE GGSALES
SUM UNITS
BY REGION
BY PRODUCT
WHERE REGION EQ 'Midwest'
ON TABLE SET POPUPDESC ON
END

The following image shows the report output and the pop-up field description text that displays when your mouse pointer is positioned over the Unit Sales column title.
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Reference: Distributing Reports With Pop-up Field Descriptions Using ReportCaster

Distributing an HTML report containing pop-up field descriptions with ReportCaster requires the use of JavaScript components located on the WebFOCUS Client. To access these components from a report distributed by ReportCaster, the scheduled procedure must contain the SET FOCHTMLURL command, which must be set to an absolute URL instead of the default value. For example, 

SET FOCHTMLURL = http://hostname[:port]/ibi_html

where:

hostname[:port]
Is the host name and optional port number (specified only if you are not using the default port number) where the WebFOCUS Web application is deployed.
ibi_html
Is the site-customized Web server alias pointing to the WebFOCUSxx/ibi_html directory (where ibi_html is the default value). xx is the version number.

For more information about coding reports for use with ReportCaster, see the Tips and Techniques for Coding a ReportCaster Report appendix in your ReportCaster manual.

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