Dynamic Color for Workbook

Hi Expert,
by creating a colored workbook i notice the color was disappearing after the refresh.
I decide to built a makro which can fix the color in each line.
I done that manually.
But i am looking for a makro which can dynamically color the cells.
for example:
1. Total sum--- > color red
1.2 sub sum color yellow
1.2.1 sub sum color grey
I will not want to fix that, because if there is a change in the result it can not match again.
Thank for your help
Gilo

Banu / Gilo, i am going thru the same exercise. Our users wanted the TOP 15 customers, sub total and Overall total. We cannot achieve this in a query as a HTML page, so we decided to use precalculation server to broadcast as a workbook. I know we need to run the report in BEx and store the workbook and then do the broadcast. I want to know when we store it as a workbook can we write macro to get the Sub total and the overall total.
Do u have any documentation or idea to achieve this. Once i get this i can play with formats and coloring.
Thanks in advance.
Anand

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There are some changes that need to be done to both ACL and NAT configurations. First of the NAT configurations for each port require their own "object network" to be configured.
Also since you are using a DHCP address from the ISP to act as the NAT address then you can use the keyword/parameter "interface" in the actual "nat" command. This basically tells the ASA that it should use whatever IP address is currently on the "outside" interface of the ASA. So you wont have to configure any separate "object network" for the public IP address every time it changes.
Also, with regards to the ACL configurations. You should only configure one ACL per interface in the "in" direction. So all the rules you need to configure for traffic inbound from the Internet need to be in the same ACL that you then attach to the "outside" interface with the command "access-group"
object network WEBSERVER-TCP80
host 172.16.0.2
nat (DMZ,outside) static interface service tcp www www
object network WEBSERVER-TCP443
host 172.16.0.2
nat (DMZ,outside) static interface service tcp 443 443
object network WEBSERVER-TCP4125
host 172.16.0.2
nat (DMZ,outside) static interface service tcp 4125 4125
access-list outside_acl extended permit tcp any object WEBSERVER-TCP80 eq www
access-list outside_acl extended permit tcp any object WEBSERVER-TCP443 eq https
access-list outside_acl extended permit tcp any object WEBSERVER-TCP4125 eq 4125
access-group outside_acl in interface outside
DYNAMIC PAT FOR LANs and DMZs
The above NAT configurations only handles the NAT for situations where the remote hosts on the Internet contact your DMZ server.
If you want to configure Dynamic PAT for all your LAN and DMZ users which basically enable them to use the "outside" interface public IP address for Internet traffic, then you could configure this single "nat" configuration
nat (any,outside) after-auto source dynamic any interface
This would enable Dynamic PAT for all users behind the ASA
I am not sure if you will run into problems since you are using a single public IP address and trying to forward TCP/443. This port is both used for SSL VPN and ASDM management of the ASA.
If you want to change the default port of the ASDM management you can use this command
http server enable
If you want to change the default port of SSL VPN you can use these commands
webvpn
port
Naturally before doing either of the above changes, make sure that you are not relying to them for management purposes if something was to go wrong. If you have SSH management access to the ASA then it should naturally be ok.
I am not sure if all of the above are enough to get your setup working but it should be the basics. Naturally if there is still problems after the above suggestions it might be helpfull to see the current ASA configurations. For example NAT might not work if the ordering of NAT rules is wrong even though the actual configurations are otherwise valid.
Hope this helps
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- Jouni

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