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Jeff_Rowland
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Hi,
I'm a relative newbee to WebFocus. I have a application that I created and am able to create and run reports against the master files in my application. When I go to Command Console to run a query to list the records from one of my tables I get a:
(FOC205) The Description cannot be found from file Named: Act

The syntax I'm using is:

TABLE FILE ACT
PRINT NUMBER
END

The table ACT only has the one field (NUMBER).

I created a report that runs successfully that prints out records from the ACT table but just can't seem to figure out why I'm getting the error in Command Console?


7.7.02 Windows7
HTML/Excel/PDF
 
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FrankDutch
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Is the master description in your application path?




Frank
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Waz
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Frank is right.

Which app is your fex in ?

You can use the command 
APP SHOWPATH
to list what is currently in the path.

If it is not in the path you can either

  • use APP APPENDPATH {app}
  • Add you app the the path, this is done in the console.


Waz...

Prod:WebFOCUS 7.6.10/8.1.04Upgrade:WebFOCUS 8.2.07OS:LinuxOutputs:HTML, PDF, Excel, PPT
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Jeff_Rowland
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Could you tell me how I can check if
the master description is in my application path


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GinnyJakes
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Do an APP SHOWPATH assuming that you know what directory your master is in. It is always a good idea to put the APP PREPENDPATH in your program anyway just in case when you run from a browser and the directory in not in the edasprof app path, the program knows where the master is.


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Tony A
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You should also be able to use WHENCE to tell you where the master file would be used from -

WHENCE CAR MASTER

generally gives -

C:\ibi\apps\ibisamp\car.mas


T


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Darin Lee
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Are you talking about the command console in DevStudio? It functions only on the local WF server available to DevStudio, so unless you are doing local development (as opposed to server/MRE development) that server will not have access to file same files. I suspect this is your issue.

If you are talking about the Web console for the WF server, then APP QUERY or APP SHOWPATH should show you the files you have available or use the WHENCE as Tony suggests to tell you the location of the specific MFD you are looking for.


Regards,

Darin


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Jeff_Rowland
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Thanks to all your replies. I was successfull in adding the app to the path and this fixed the problem with getting the FOC205 error.


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