Hi,

I have two issues with HTML Layout Painter:

1) I want to create an html front end for an existing focus report. I created a new HTML file and imported my existing procedure. But that isn't really what I want. I don't want the report to appear anywhere on the html layout. I just want the parameters that are in my .fex (and in the -INCLUDE files) to show up on my html layout page. When the user enters the parameters and clicks submit I want the parameters passed to my focus code and I want my code to run. This wasn't quite so difficult in 5.2.3 as it seems to be in 7.1.4. If I remove the report from the layout (from the design tab) then it removes my fex (from the html tab). Do I have to save the html layout with the visible report and then edit the code in the text editor rather than html layout editor?

2) And when I import my existing procedure it creates a box for my report to appear in the web page, but it doesn't create my parameters (which actually first appear in the -INCLUDE files). If I import the -INCLUDE files separately into my layout then it adds the code to the .htm file (if I wanted that then I wouldn't use a -INCLUDE).

Is using HTML Layout Painter just a waste of time? So far it's frustrating, and it's very slow, especially when opening or closing it, or saving files. Things seemed easier in 5.2.3 when you had one .fex and one .htm file rather than having the fex embedded in the htm.

Yes I agree see post below. I think they were trying to make it better..But I don't see it.
What if I don't want my fex in my Html

https://forums.informationbuilders.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/...1057331/m/1531009591

HTML Layout Painter is a big departure from Resource Layout Painter. The technologies are so different I've stopped trying to convert any html from earlier versions of WF to 7.1.4; I am rebuilding the html front ends from scratch on an as-needed basis.

To attach an html form to your fex:

First, be sure you have reviewed the help file on this subject, HTML Layout Painter, and/or reviewed the manuals.

What you want to do is add a hyperlink to your form to create the link between the form and the fex. Put a button on your form, right click it and select add a hyperlink. Select External Procedure in the "action" drop down and then select your procedure. Your parameters will be added. I haven't tried this with -INCLUDE but the procedure should be similar.

You do NOT have to import the fex into the form.

Good luck.