How to edit #BODY# substitution string?

Hi All,
I have an issue where I would like to set the border="1" in region where I have placed some select lists and buttons.
In the region template I can see:
<td class="t10RegionBody">#BODY#</td>
From the HTML source of the output page I can see that this is resolved to something begining with:
<td class="t10RegionBody"><table class="formlayout" summary="" >...
Now how can I add or change the table definition which seems to be a part of #BODY# substitution string?
How can I view the contents behind #BODY# string?
Regards,
Pawel.

See http://i14.tinypic.com/2nu7i95.jpg
That "HTML Table attributes" in the Region Template might be what you are looking for.

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<script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/common/js/datepicker.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/common/js/datepicker-ext.js"></script>
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<script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/common/js/app_desktop_all.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#app/common/js/app_legacy.js"></script>
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#APEX_CSS#
#TEMPLATE_CSS#
#THEME_CSS#
#PAGE_CSS#
#TEMPLATE_JAVASCRIPT#
#APPLICATION_JAVASCRIPT#
#PAGE_JAVASCRIPT#
*#APEXCSS#*_
*#TEMPLATECSS#*_
*#THEMECSS#*_
*#PAGECSS#*_
*#APEXJAVASCRIPT#*_
*#TEMPLATEJAVASCRIPT#*_
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The added substitution strings are bold + underlined.
Is there a parameter (application, export, template, instance level) that we can set to prevent this ?
Edited by: Karel C on 12-feb-2013 5:32
Edited by: Karel C on 12-feb-2013 5:32

Hi Patrick,
The version info is: wwv_flow_api.set_version(p_version_yyyy_mm_dd=>'2009.01.12');
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Kind regards,
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His formula is easily changed to produce an error triangle in place of "Not 17 Chars!":
B1: =IF(LEN(A1)=17, "",17/0)
In this version, if the length of the string in A1 is not 17 (characters), the formula will attempt to divide 17 by 0, and will produce a 'division by zero' error.
But, as with all of the other suggestions, this one will require a new column to provide space for the formula and it's result.
Changing the text or fill colour can be done using conditional formatting. Changing content of the cell (eg. choosing between the entered string of characters and the error triangle) cannot.
Conditional formatting rules compare the content of a the cell to be formatted with either a fixed value (written into the rule) or to the content of another cell. In my examples (and in Ian's examples) above the rules compared the content of the cell to be formattes to the number '17'. The number was generated by a formula which measured the length (in characters) of the text in the cell where the ID was entered, and reported that length as a number.
A way to show a red triangle using conditional formatting is to use Image fill as the default fill of the cell, then use a colour fill as the conditional fill to hide the trialngle when the conditions are met. Here's the same example as used above, with this technique applied to column B:
The same formula is used in column B as in my previous example. Type size is set to 1 point (note the black dot, visible in the green filled cell) to keep the numbers from obscuring the triangles. The triangles are shapes, inserted onto the canvas (not into the table) from the Shapes button in the tools. Their fill colour has been changed to red, a 12 point exclamation sign character ha been typed into the shape and its text colour set to white, and the triangle's size has been reduced as much as possible without triggering the overflow symbol (boxed plus sigh) to appear.
The triangle image (and some of its white background) was made into a png image file by taking a screen shot, and the image was inserted into all of the cells in the body rows of column B as an image fill, using the Graphic inspector. The conditional format rule below was then applied to the body row cells in column B.
Finally, you can apply conditional formatting to the cell containing the ID. This will still require another column to contain the values to which the content of the ID cell will be compared, but that column may be hidden, or may be located on a separate table.
The method requires an second cell for each cell contining an ID, and uses a formula that makes the contents of the second cell the same as that of the ID cell IF the ID cell contents are 17 characters long.
Here's a sample. Table 1 is column A of the same table as above. Table 2 is a single column table holding the comparison cells.
As in the example above, the cells on table 1 were given an image fill. The conditional format rule replaces that with a white colour fill when the cell contains the same text as its partner cell in Table 2.
This is the rule for cell A2. In A3, the cell reference is to Table 2::A3, and in A4, to Table 2::A4. The cell references in conditional format rules must be edited individually.
Regards,
Barry

How do I copy the string portion of an enum into the string portion of a cluster?

I want to do this for the an entire array of clusters. I'm trying to use a for loop. Can't figure out how to parse the string portion of the enum into the string portion of the cluster.
Alternatively, I'd be happy if I could figure out some way to tie the enum to the array of clusters, but I figure that gets problematic.
DH
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Dark Hollow wrote:
OK, let's say that the enumerated type has N elements. I want to initialize an N element array of strings. How do I reference each string in the enumerated type to get to each string?
Easy way to do this is to use GetNumericInfo.vi, part of the Variant library, found in vi.lib\utility\VariantDataType\GetNumericInfo.vi. Wire your enumeration to the Variant input; one of the outputs is an array of the strings in the enumerated type.
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