Web View Template

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Last updated: Jul 29, 2015 by
Andy Heller (Deactivated)
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Parameters

Web View reports have two parameters:

  • URL: this can be:
    • Any external website;
    • Any intranet site;
    • Any document on the web-server that can be viewed in the browser.

CONTENT

  • Hide URL Bar:

    • Select Yes to hide the URL when displaying the report in the CXO-Cockpit application
    • Select No to show the URL bar

If you want to show an external website or an intranet site, you can simply paste the url into the Value field of the URL parameter.

Additional Information

Show Microsoft Office Page or Picture in the Web View Template

If you want to show a Word or Excel page or a picture in CXO-Cockpit the procedure is as follows:

  • Save the Excel or Word document as .html / .htm document or as a Single File Web Page (.mht). For Excel, make sure that you check the 'Selection: Sheet' option when saving. In case of .mht you will be asked to Publish the document. This will enable the use of charts in the Excel sheet; For pictures, save the picture as a .JPG or .PNG file (we recommend to limit the width to 650 pixels),
  • In the CXO Design Studio, make sure that you (initially) set the Hide URL Bar parameter to No;
  • Click the Browse... button to locate the file (on your local workstation);
  • Press Upload File: you can now see the document in the Preview Panel;

  • Now the  URL parameter must be updated. Since the document gets an encrypted name on the web-server, you can only obtain the right location by right-clicking the Preview Panel and selecting Properties. Copy the Adress and paste it in the Value field of the URL parameter;

  • Change the Hide URL Bar parameter back to Yes;
  • Save the Parameters.

Show a different URL for every entity, period, etc.

If you want to show different content for different entities, years and periods, you can enable this by putting the entity, year and period in the point of view. The URL displayed in the website template will be automatically extended with the member names of each POV member.

For example, if otherwise you have a file called backlog.htm, you can put a file backlog_2010_dec.htm in the uploads directory (typically inetpub\wwwroot\cxocockpit\uploads), which will be shown when the year and period in the point of view are set to 2010 and December.

You can also extend this concept with the entity. The filename should then be named backlog_<entity>_<year>_<period>.htm.

Note 1: It is important that in the filename the order is always entity, year and period, even if the dimension settings of these dimensions have a different order

Note 2: The <Entity>, <Year> and <Period> refer to the ID of the member, not to the description. So if the Entity ID is Geographic and the description is Comma Communications, then the file should be named backlog_Geographic_2010_Dec.htm.

Note 3: The Web View template can only work in relation to the entity, year and period dimension, it is currently not possible to show a different picture or HTm file based on other dimensions in the CXO-Cockpit.

See Also

Web View template end-user documentation