Focal Point Banner


As of December 1, 2020, Focal Point is retired and repurposed as a reference repository. We value the wealth of knowledge that's been shared here over the years. You'll continue to have access to this treasure trove of knowledge, for search purposes only.

Join the TIBCO Community
TIBCO Community is a collaborative space for users to share knowledge and support one another in making the best use of TIBCO products and services. There are several TIBCO WebFOCUS resources in the community.

  • From the Home page, select Predict: WebFOCUS to view articles, questions, and trending articles.
  • Select Products from the top navigation bar, scroll, and then select the TIBCO WebFOCUS product page to view product overview, articles, and discussions.
  • Request access to the private WebFOCUS User Group (login required) to network with fellow members.

Former myibi community members should have received an email on 8/3/22 to activate their user accounts to join the community. Check your Spam folder for the email. Please get in touch with us at community@tibco.com for further assistance. Reference the community FAQ to learn more about the community.


Focal Point    Focal Point Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  WebFOCUS/FOCUS Forum on Focal Point     WF - Layout Painter not filling its drop-down box from a focexec

Read-Only Read-Only Topic
Go
Search
Notify
Tools
WF - Layout Painter not filling its drop-down box from a focexec
 Login/Join
 
Virtuoso
posted
Hey folks, I have a strange one for you.

I have dashboards that present Layout Painter reports to the users. Enter a name, select a status, click on Submit, that sort of thing. There are drop-down boxes in the set of selections for these pages that are filled by calls to focexecs -- provide a list of names to choose from. They don't run.

Now, if I have Dev Studio open and I run a report from the server they use (via Dev Studio) they start to run. That is, if I touch the server with Dev Studio first they magically come alive and function properly. At the moment I have no username/password specified in Dev Studio for that server, and I have security turned off on that server. The run in Dev Studio proceeds without prompting me for credentials.

Here's the other curve ball in the mix -- it's not the default server for the wf client.

It's almost as if it can't make contact with the server until I contact it directly first. Once first contact is made, all proceeds as one would expect.

Anybody have any ideas? I don't even know how to specify a search string for this critter to look for it here in the forums or on tech support. I figured I'd crowd-source it first since you guys often provide such good results and so quickly.

J.


By the way, Client is 7.6.1, Server is 7.6.5 running on Win2k, same box. Server is one of four, licensed to run WF and Maintain.



 
Posts: 1012 | Location: At the Mast | Registered: May 17, 2007Report This Post
Expert
posted Hide Post
Generally, when this happens, it cannot find the focexec. If you open the html page in the editor, look for the line with the focexec that populates one of the dropdown boxes. Make sure that the IBIAPP_app variable points to the directory where the fex is. Then make sure that variable IBIC_server points to the server.

We have a joke around here that its always pathing.


Ginny
---------------------------------
Prod: WF 7.7.01 Dev: WF 7.6.9-11
Admin, MRE,self-service; adapters: Teradata, DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Essbase, ESRI, FlexEnable, Google
 
Posts: 2723 | Location: Ann Arbor, MI | Registered: April 05, 2006Report This Post
Virtuoso
posted Hide Post
Checked a dozen times because you're right -- pathing is always an issue and in this case it's server and app that need to be right.

What confuses me most is that the problem "fixes itself" once I've touched the server in Dev Studio.



 
Posts: 1012 | Location: At the Mast | Registered: May 17, 2007Report This Post
Expert
posted Hide Post
Right-click the List box and uncheck the cacheruntime parameter, OR, if it is not checked, check it...


Tom Flynn
WebFOCUS 8.1.05 - PROD/QA
DB2 - AS400 - Mainframe
 
Posts: 1972 | Location: Centennial, CO | Registered: January 31, 2006Report This Post
Virtuoso
posted Hide Post
CacheRunTime made no difference.



 
Posts: 1012 | Location: At the Mast | Registered: May 17, 2007Report This Post
Expert
posted Hide Post
Hi John,

Has this issue been resolved?

I passed this one to our internals and was told that the behavior is quite unusual. Please open a case with Information Builders' Customer Service so that we can help determine what is going on in the environment. To open a case, please either call 1-800-736-6130, or access InfoResponse.

Cheers,

Kerry


Kerry Zhan
Focal Point Moderator
Information Builders, Inc.
 
Posts: 1948 | Location: New York | Registered: November 16, 2004Report This Post
  Powered by Social Strata  

Read-Only Read-Only Topic

Focal Point    Focal Point Forums  Hop To Forum Categories  WebFOCUS/FOCUS Forum on Focal Point     WF - Layout Painter not filling its drop-down box from a focexec

Copyright © 1996-2020 Information Builders