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Resolved Setting a column to visible after having set it to invisible on a Grid dw

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  1. Miguel Leeuwe
    Miguel Leeuwe
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  3. Wednesday, 17 January 2024 18:01 PM UTC

Hi and happy new year,

We use dw2xls (Desta) for exporting dws to Excel. There's a specific dw that failed to generate an xlsx that could be opened by Excel. (Ironically, LibreOffice has no problems with it).

So after spending quite some time, I fixed the problem by making a specific field invisible before the export. This field had the "Password" attribute checked. So before the export, I set the field to invisile and after, I set it to visible again. However, that last Modify() doesn't seem to work. The execution of the Modify() returns no error, but the column does no show.

Now I know that grid datawindows are a bit special, but has anyone found the same problem and maybe have a solution?

For now, I've solved the problem by doing a GetFullState before setting the field invisible and a SetFullState after the export to excel.

regards,

MiguelL

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John Fauss
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  1. Thursday, 18 January 2024 01:59 AM UTC
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Hi, Miguel -

Because of the way the grid continually displays columns adjacent to one another, the normal technique of toggling a column object's visible status doesn't work. If you are using the PFC, the Grid DataWindow service object (n_cst_dwsrv_grid/pfc_n_cst_dwsrv_grid) contains some methods you can use to record and later restore the column layout, such as of_Populate() and of_RestoreOriginalLayout().

Best regards, John

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Miguel Leeuwe
  1. Miguel Leeuwe
  2. Thursday, 18 January 2024 10:30 AM UTC
Hi Sivaprakash, thanks, but that's not as easy as simply using GetFullState and SetFullState.
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Miguel Leeuwe
  1. Miguel Leeuwe
  2. Thursday, 18 January 2024 10:48 AM UTC
@René

Hi, yes it DOES work I just tested it. The only thing is that it would leave a blank column in my export, so I'm sticking to the Get- and SetFullState solution.

regards
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René Ullrich
  1. René Ullrich
  2. Thursday, 18 January 2024 11:04 AM UTC
@Miguel

Interesting. In documentation the property is not marked as modifyable.
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