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Mark1
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A colleauge of mine is trying to create tabs on her HTML form. Both tabs will display report output from the same fex. The first tab will display report output with variable X as "1". The second tab will display report output with variable X as "2". We do not know how to pass the fex one variable value with one tab and another variable value with another tab. We are using the HTML Layout Painter. If anyone can tell us the steps to do this, it would be great! Thank you!

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Problem is that you can't have two variables of the same name in the same HTML page, it will always take
the value of the last one.

Someone might correct me but you need two copies of the fex with the variables having different names.

ie X & Y
 
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Francis Mariani
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One way to deal with this is to name the form objects in each tab with a different name, when the submit button is pressed, use JavaScript to submit a form object with the desired name, copying the value for the tab's form object.

Or, you could take care of it in WebFOCUS, using -DEFAULT and/or IF &varname.EXISTS.

A little bit of creative programming will easily take care of this.

You may want to examine why you're designing a two-tabbed form, both tabs calling the same fex.


Francis


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I was thinking I could simply use the OnClick feature for this, but I don't know Javascript at all.

I would prefer the WebFocus option. Francis, how would I use -DEFAULT and/or IF &VARNAME.EXISTS in my program to call the same fex depending on the variable? I'm creating a dashboard for a service line (with 3 different services) and am using a standard generic template we have set up. I wanted to keep from creating 3 different programs and just use the same fex for all 3 (only difference would be a WHERE statement to distinguish the services).


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What is in each of the three tabs? Is it a form that has a submit button or is it the actual report and you're expecting to have the same report execute three times with a different WHERE statement for each tab?


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The latter...it's actually the same report that pulls data from a database depending on the service (using a different where statement for each tab). I had set up a parameter (&PHYS) and was hoping I could use it to pass the service to the fex based on the tab....


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I don't see any way of running the same program from multiple tabs and passing a parameter. My suggestion would be to write four programs: three programs that have two lines in them; to set the &PHYS variable and to include the fourth program, and the fourth program to contain the report.

Something like this:
-SET &PHYS='SERV1';
-INCLUDE SERVREP

and
-SET &PHYS='SERV2';
-INCLUDE SERVREP

and
TABLE FILE SERVICES
PRINT *
WHERE SERVICE EQ '&PHYS'
END

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Thanks Francis. I appreciate the suggestions.


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