You can control the way a browser window looks in Managed Reporting with the addition of JavaScript code to the following:

• Managed Reporting logon page—mr_ie.htm is located under /ibi_html/workbnch/ on the server where WebFOCUS is installed.

  Note: This technique applies to the HTM Managed Reporting logon pages. The JSP Managed Reporting logon pages dynamically create the Managed Reporting logon page so this technique is not available if you are using the JSP Managed Reporting logon pages.

• OLAP Control Panel file—drill.html is located under /ibi_html/javaassist on the server where WebFOCUS is installed.
• Deferred Report Status Interface—xxmrchft.def is located under drive:\ibi\WebFOCUS76\client76\conf\etc on the server where the WebFOCUS Client is installed. Note that xx is the 2 letter abbreviation for the language you select when you log on to Managed Reporting.

To customize the look of a window created by WebFOCUS Managed Reporting, you must make manual changes to the JavaScript code and migrate them to any future version of WebFOCUS.

You can modify the following browser window options:

• Menu bar
• Toolbar
• Location bar
• Directories bar
• Status line
• Scroll bars
• Ability to resize the window
• Closing a child window when a parent window closes
• Width (in pixels)
• Height (in pixels)
• Screen alignment (from the left of the screen, from the top of the screen)

When using JavaScript, you must specify all the options you want in your Managed Reporting browser window. Once an option is specified, there are no default values assumed.

Caution: The first two parameters (u and t) in the window.open call are set internally by WebFOCUS and must not be changed.

The following example shows how to open a new window, called open_window, in the upper left corner of the window that displays the front page of Managed Reporting. The size of the new window will be 640x480 pixels. To accomplish this, include the following HTML code in the head of the original document:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT>
function doShowDoc(u,t)
{
t=t.replace(' ','A');
window.open(u,t,menubar,toolbar,location,directories,status,scrollbars,
resizable,dependent,width=640,height=480,left=0,top=0);
}
</SCRIPT>

WebFOCUS Managed Reporting does not create a new browser window when you:

• Right-click a drill-down link in a WebFOCUS report and select Open.
• Use the Ctrl+N sequence to create a new browser instance.
• Access the following administrator tools from Managed Reporting:
  • The ReportCaster Console. When you run a log report from the Console, the browser options cannot be controlled, since the applet does not create the browser window.
  • Two-Way Email. When you run the Job Log or Event Log from the Managed Reporting Two-Way Email option on the blue toolbar, the browser options cannot be controlled, since the applet does not create the browser window.

You can customize the look and feel of the amper auto-prompting facility by editing the launch page template file you are using. All of the available launch page templates are located in the ibi\WebFOCUS76\ibi_html\javaassist\ibi\html\describe directory. The default template is autoprompt_top.css.

If you want to customize the banner, create an image, save it in the describe directory, and change the background-image property, which is shown in bold type in the following Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) code:

#idBannerDiv {
height:45px; 
background-image: url(logo_banner.gif); 
background-position: top left;
background-repeat: no-repeat; 
margin: 0;
margin-top:2px;
cursor:hand;}

The option to select different launch page templates can be set in the WebFOCUS Administration Console using the Parameter Prompting selection under Client Settings, where you can set the IBIF_describe_xsl value to one of the launch page templates.

You can also enter the name of the desired launch page template in a FOCEXEC using the following code:

<describe_xsl>template</describe_xsl>

where:

template

Is set to one of the following launch page template values:

• autoprompt_top - Displays the parameters horizontally at the top of the page and is the default template value.
• autoprompt_top_checked - Same as autoprompt_top, but the Run in a new window check box is pre-selected.
• autoprompt - Displays the parameters vertically at the left side of the page.
• autoprompt_checked - Same as autoprompt, but the Run in a new window check box is pre-selected.
• autoprompt_simple - Basic input form.