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Does anyone know / Tested if it's possible to chain controls in a Designer page?This message has been edited. Last edited by: Frans, Test: WF 8.2 Prod: WF 8.2 DB: Progress, REST, IBM UniVerse/UniData, SQLServer, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Greenplum, Athena. | ||
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Ditto, We will be getting into this very soon, seen demos as well. Waz...
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My experience has been if the master file has a hierarchy defined and those fields are used in where clauses they are automatically chained but the designer tool itself does not provide the ability to chain... Thank you for using Focal Point! Chuck Wolff - Focal Point Moderator WebFOCUS 7x and 8x, Windows, Linux All output Formats | |||
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And therein lies the rub for many of us. The new tools are really great, but they require a redesign of our metadata layers that can be overwhelming for legacy systems. If you are starting with a clean slate it is much simpler than with MFDs designed only a few years ago. Joins in your focexecs are considered poor form, although for most of the last forty years that's how you did it. I wish the metadata layer design transition had been stressed at Summit years ago when IBI started heading that way. Rant over ![]() WebFOCUS 8.2.03 - Production WebFOCUS 8.2.04 - Sand Box Windows 2012 R2 Server HTML, PDF, Excel In FOCUS since 1980 | |||
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The following thread is related to this question. Please let me know if it doesn't answer your question. http://forums.informationbuild...7041196/m/6297071196 Director, Technical Content Support Services | |||
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So. is this saying that Chaining the controls in WebFOCUS Designer can only be done if the metadata has Hierarchy setup? I sure hope that is NOT what this is saying. What about chaining data from 'flat' tables created from DataMigrator? What about chaining done in HTML Composer Controls... Chaining one dropdown list to another where they are populated from fexes... The way it's been done for years? I'll be at every Designer session that Summit has to offer, maybe even attending the same one more than once... See you there... | |||
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Thanks for all the input. This means also that the chaining will only work if you use the same master for all the containers on a page? Would be nice to have an option to have a separate masterfile for the filters. Test: WF 8.2 Prod: WF 8.2 DB: Progress, REST, IBM UniVerse/UniData, SQLServer, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Greenplum, Athena. | |||
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So, What about chaining done in HTML Composer Controls... Chaining one dropdown list to another where they are populated from fexes... The way it's been done for years? | |||
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Summit will definately be the best place to get answers about how designer currently behaves and how it will be enhanced. You can create the chaining with composer and then use that html form in the designer for now. Thank you for using Focal Point! Chuck Wolff - Focal Point Moderator WebFOCUS 7x and 8x, Windows, Linux All output Formats | |||
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You can accomplish the chaining in Designer entirely within the fex: -DEFAULT &aregion = '_FOC_NULL'; -DEFAULT &ast = '_FOC_NULL'; -DEFAULT &acity = '_FOC_NULL'; TABLE FILE ibisamp/ggsales SUM UNITS BY REGION BY ST BY CITY BY DATE ACROSS PCD WHERE ( REGION EQ &aregion.(FIND REGION IN GGSALES|FORMAT=A11).Region.QUOTEDSTRING ) AND ( ST EQ &ast.(FIND ST IN GGSALES|FORMAT=A02,WITHIN=aregion).State code.QUOTEDSTRING ) AND ( CITY EQ &acity.(FIND CITY IN GGSALES|FORMAT=A20,WITHIN=ast).City.QUOTEDSTRING ); ON TABLE SET STYLE * INCLUDE=IBFS:/FILE/IBI_HTML_DIR/ibi_themes/Warm.sty, $ ENDSTYLE ENDThis message has been edited. Last edited by: dbeagan, WF 8.2.06 Win10 / IE11 AHTML EXL2K PDF | |||
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Very interesting Waz...
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Thanks dbeagan, that sheds some light on the possibilities we have. Test: WF 8.2 Prod: WF 8.2 DB: Progress, REST, IBM UniVerse/UniData, SQLServer, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Greenplum, Athena. | |||
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![]() Thank you for using Focal Point! Chuck Wolff - Focal Point Moderator WebFOCUS 7x and 8x, Windows, Linux All output Formats | |||
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