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Hallway
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I have the following code to dynamically choose a 4 week period:
 
-SET &DATE1 = AYMD ( &YYMD , - 35 , 'I8YYMD'); 
-SET &BEGDATE = AYMD ( &DATE1 , - DTPART( '&DATE1', WEEKDAY ) + 1 , 'I8YYMD'); 

-SET &DATE2 = AYMD ( &YYMD , - 7 , 'I8YYMD'); 
-SET &ENDDATE = AYMD ( &DATE2 , - DTPART( '&DATE2', WEEKDAY ) , 'I8YYMD'); 

-DEFAULT &FROM_DATE = &BEGDATE.EVAL;
-DEFAULT &TO_DATE = &ENDDATE.EVAL;

-TYPE &FROM_DATE.EVAL
-TYPE &TO_DATE.EVAL


I would like to have the default parameters actually show the amper values of 20160403 and 20160430 in this example. The values are passed as you can see in the -TYPE output, but I would like to see those values in the prompt that the end user will see to give them the option to change the date if they would like.

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GavinL
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The auto prompt is because you don't have a value in it. If your wanting to prompt with default values, then you need to build your page to prompt via your own code, then pass the values to use.

-DEFAULT &FROM_DATE = _FOC_NULL;
-DEFAULT &TO_DATE = _FOC_NULL;

-SET &DATE1 = AYMD ( &YYMD , - 35 , 'I8YYMD');
-SET &BEGDATE = AYMD ( &DATE1 , - DTPART( '&DATE1', WEEKDAY ) + 1 , 'I8YYMD');

-SET &DATE2 = AYMD ( &YYMD , - 7 , 'I8YYMD');
-SET &ENDDATE = AYMD ( &DATE2 , - DTPART( '&DATE2', WEEKDAY ) , 'I8YYMD');

-IF &FROM_DATE EQ _FOC_NULL THEN GOTO PROMPTDATA;

-TYPE &FROM_DATE
-TYPE &TO_DATE
-GOTO EOF

-PROMPTDATA
-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<html>
<script>
function submit() {
	var from_date = document.getElementById('FROM_DATE').value;
	var to_date = document.getElementById('TO_DATE').value;
	var url=location.href+'&|FROM_DATE='+from_date+'&|TO_DATE='+to_date;
	location.href=url;
}
</script>
<style>
.button {
	width: 60px;
	height: 20px;
	line-height: 20px;
	background-color: #c0c0c0;
	border: 1px solid #000;
	cursor: pointer;
	text-align: center;
	margin: 2px;
	color: #fff;
}
</style>
<body>
From Date: <input id="FROM_DATE" name="FROM_DATE" value="&BEGDATE.EVAL"><br/>
To Date: <input id="TO_DATE" name="TO_DATE" value="&ENDDATE.EVAL"></br>
<div class="button" onclick="submit()">Run</div>
</body>
</html>
-HTMLFORM END
-EOF



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Good One


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Dave
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...or make an HTML.

And dynamically fill the inputboxes with a .fex ( producing an XML ) with the correct value.


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GavinL
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...or make an HTML.

And dynamically fill the inputboxes with a .fex ( producing an XML ) with the correct value.


That's basically what my code does. It's an HTML within a fex and auto fills with set defaults.



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Dave
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Gavin,

I know. But it's handcoded.
If you just make an .fex like:

 TABLE FILE CAR
 SUM FST.CAR
 BY HIGHEST 1 COUNTRY
 ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT XML
 END


You can do the rest in the HTML-composer GUI. ( without coding )
And you can even reuse it for other HTML-screens.



...
Or do it like this:
I use this to drill from a list to a HTML-prompt screen and auto-run.
The user can also directly start the HTML-prompt screen without auto-run.

-DEFAULTH &SELECTED_LIST_VALUE = '';
-* prevent auto-prompting 

-HTMLFORM IBFS:/WFC/Repository/d1frsupp/std_reports/1026/1026_artikelzoeker.htm

-IF &SELECTED_LIST_VALUE NE '' OR ' ' THEN CONTINUE ELSE EXIT;
-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='JSCRIPT'>
document.getElementById('input_user_value').value = '!IBI.AMP.SELECTED_LIST_VALUE;';
document.getElementById('form1Submit').click();
</SCRIPT>
-HTMLFORM END


...It can be done in all sorts of ways.


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GavinL
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I'm a big components of "handcoding" or find yourself limited to UI restraints and have your job replaced by a BA as it's no longer development if your relying on something to write the code for you.



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I'm a BA :-)


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