Hello!

I'm trying to link to a MRE report from an html page and I keep getting a "procedure not found error"

This works, because it's EDAserve...
href="http://svr99rvi/ibi_apps/WFServlet?IBIF_ex=newfex-4"> newtest

This doesn't, it's MRE...
href="http://svr99rvi/ibi_apps/WFServlet?IBIF_ex=app/grpdial.fex"> mretest

Is it possible to reference an MRE .fex from an html page?

Thanks!

Prod: Single Windows 2008 Server running Webfocus 7.7.03 Reporting server Web server IIS6/Tomcat, AS400 DB2 database.

Calls to MRE fexes require the domain and folder name of the fex you want to execute. It also requires logging in. Here is an example of a call to a MRE fex including logging in:

http://gfnotoeiprod/ibi_apps/WFServlet?IBIMR_action=MR_...&IBIMR_pass=password

It appears that it will only work if some or all the special characters (/,#, etc) are encoded. This is the unencoded version:

http://gfnotoeiprod/ibi_apps/WFServlet?IBIMR_action=MR_...&IBIMR_pass=password

Here is some more info:

https://forums.informationbuilders.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/...811098331#3811098331

The other alternative is: If the Web Server is on the same box as the WebFOCUS server you could map the MRE folder as an Application folder and accesses the fexes as any other in the App folders.

Commands in C:\ibi\srv53\wfs\etc\edasprof.prf

Map a folder:

APP MAP ent_app d:\ibi\WebFOCUS53\basedir\enterpri\app

Add it to the APP PATH:

APP PATH app1 ent_app app2 app3 ibisamp

jason, is your html page a FORM?
is it outside of the MRE environment (i.e. self serve)? or inside the MRE environment?
If inside, then take any fex, and click 'Publish'..that will make a launch page right in the same mre domain, which you can crack open, and that will give you all the syntax you need to learn.
If outside, its even easier, so tell us which..

actually, I was planning on sending out a link to "see all the bells and whistles" for a report distributed in email....but the link has to be back to a report in MRE.

We've done stuff with forms before, and you're right...they're great launch pages for some really sweet reports. Nice functionality, but we're trying to make our reportcasted HTML report be the launch page for a lot of our dashboard functionality.

Well then, does any of this help?

We use this quite a bit, actually. We have quick links from some of our java applications that run MRE reports. I'll repeat what was stated earlier as an example. The easiest way it to create a dummy report, say from CAR, in the domain where you MRE report resides. If you are going to pass a parameter to MRE, it helps to include a parameter in the fex:

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR
BY &COUNTRY
END

Then publish that report, checking the "Show as Report" box. That published report shows up in the MRE domain and you can edit as text to get:

1. The URL string (Find FOCEXURL in the code)
2. All of the parameters (near the bottom) that you need in order to run the MRE report from a link.

As stated before, this requires a login so you will have to provide credentials as well. A link to the above report in the default domain would look like

http://servername/ibi_apps/WFServlet?IBIC_server=server...andom=&COUNTRY=JAPAN

Paste that URL into a browser and if it works, you're set. In our java applications, the URL is built using java (obviously) which populates all the & variables, some from java classes (especially credentials). In your casted HTML report you could simply create a define field which builds the URL string and then display it as a column, heading, or footing, or add a drilldown to an existing field which passes all of the necessary parameters and values.