Not assigned and # in BEX 7.0 WAD

Question

Hi all,
In the report I have a characteristic time Z object.
In the portal, For the value 00:00:00 (midnight) it displays '#' instead of 00:00:00. Is there a way around this?
Also in Javascript is it posible to change 'Not Assigned' to some other verbiage?

Answer 1

Hi Raj,
Not too sure how to fix your midnight issue but I have some javascript code that toggles the # or Not Assigned values and hides them by turning their text to the colour of the background.  I have this attached as a context menu item of the column headings, but could be applied to any element with a bit of playing around.
See below :-
function showHideNullItems()
  var mytab = document.getElementById("GR1Table");
//  var myrow = mytab.getElementsByTagName("TR");
//  for (j=0;j<myrow.length;++j) {
  var mycells = mytab.getElementsByTagName("TD");
for (l = 0; l < mycells.length; ++l) {
    if (document.all) {
       var textToCompare = mycells[l].innerText.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "");
       var compStyle = mycells[l].currentStyle['backgroundColor'];
     } else {
       var textToCompare = mycells[l].textContent.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "");
       var compStyle = getComputedStyle(mycells[l], null).backgroundColor;
    if (mycells[l].firstChild.style) {
       if ((mycells[l].firstChild.style.color != compStyle) && (textToCompare == "#" || textToCompare == "Not assigned" )) {
         mycells[l].firstChild.style.color = compStyle;
       } else {
         mycells[l].firstChild.style.color = "";
    } else {
       if ((mycells[l].style.color != compStyle) && (textToCompare == "#" || textToCompare == "Not assigned" )) {
         mycells[l].style.color = compStyle;
       } else {
         mycells[l].style.color = "";
Hope this is useful.
Cheers
Craig