WebFocus, two title columns and merging cells - webfocus

Question

If i have a table in a WebFocus Raport design
+--------+---------+--------+---------+
| left_1 | right_1 | left_2 | right_2 |
+--------+---------+--------+---------+
| v11 | p11 | v21 | v21 |
+--------+---------+--------+---------+
| v12 | p12 | v22 | v22 |
....
How to do a such table with syllabus column titles:
+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| One | Two |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| left | right | left | right |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| v11 | p11 | v21 | v21 |
+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| v12 | p12 | v22 | v22 |
....
Thank you

Answer 1

Sorry for the delay of the answer :)
To rename columns, with the AS command. Example:
TABLE FILE SYSTABLE
PRINT NAME
COMPUTE LEFT1/A3 = 'v11'; AS 'left';
COMPUTE RIGHT1/A3 = 'p11'; AS 'right';
COMPUTE LEFT2/A3 = 'v21'; AS 'left';
COMPUTE RIGHT2/A3 = 'p21'; AS 'right';
IF RECORDLIMIT EQ 10
END
To put the heading columns, you can work with the ACROSS command but it will be more tricky that if u use simply SUBHEAD. With the same example:
TABLE FILE SYSTABLE
PRINT NAME NOPRINT
COMPUTE LEFT1/A3 = 'v11'; AS 'left';
COMPUTE RIGHT1/A3 = 'p11'; AS 'right';
COMPUTE LEFT2/A3 = 'v21'; AS 'left';
COMPUTE RIGHT2/A3 = 'p21'; AS 'right';
IF RECORDLIMIT EQ 10
ON TABLE SUBHEAD
"<+0>One<+0> Two"
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN, PAGESIZE='Letter',
LEFTMARGIN=0.500000, RIGHTMARGIN=0.500000,
TOPMARGIN=0.500000, BOTTOMMARGIN=0.500000,
SQUEEZE=ON, GRID=OFF, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, $
TYPE=REPORT,FONT='ARIAL',SIZE=9,$
TYPE=TABHEADING,HEADALIGN=BODY,$
TYPE=TABHEADING, LINE=1, ITEM=1, COLSPAN=2, SQUEEZE=ON,$
TYPE=TABHEADING, LINE=1, ITEM=2, COLSPAN=2, SQUEEZE=ON,$
ENDSTYLE
END
Hope it helps!

Answer 2

I'm not entirely sure if you load the headers as a field or if that is the field name
But this might help you
Define fields
TITL1/A3 = 'One';
TITL2/A3 = 'Two';
BLANK/A1 = '';
Edit the Left and Right title fields to remove the _1 or _2
Print the fields BY BLANK NOPRINT
Add
ON BLANK SUBHEAD
"
You can also add more rows to the subhead if you need more titles

Answer 3

You can easily do it by embedding HTML/CSS scripts in report(.fex) file.
just add the HTML/css code at the end of the file.
For eg.
-HTMLFORM BEGIN // to start styling your generated report table with HTML/CSS
TABLE tr
td:first-child // applies on 1st row ONLY.It can be td or th.
{
colspan = "2"; //to merge 2 columns
}
-HTMLFORM END //end HTML.
So the first row must have two cells having title "ONE" and "TWO"(in your case), and both cells must have property of colspan = "2"
Also you can refer:
Colspan propery from here
manipulating first row of table from here
Second option is to write the whole code in a file and save it in .htm/.html format and just insert the file in to WEBFOCUS(.fex) file.For eg.
-HTMLFORM BEGIN
-INCLUDE HTML_FILE.HTML
-HTMLFORM END
Hope it helps.Thanks.