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BobSh
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Has anyone tried automatically refreshing content pages in the Dashboard? We would like to have the Dashboard automatically refresh (without having to press the Refresh button) so that Operations could use it to monitor processes. We would like the refresh to be every minute or so. Has anyone tried this? If yes, would you be willing to share how you did it? We are on WF7.1.4 on AIX 5.3. Thanks.


WebFOCUS 7.7.05M, gen 144, Windows 2008 Server R2 64-bit, Tomcat 6.0.33, IIS 7.0, SQL Server, Excel 2013, PDF, HTML, FOCUS files.
 
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Francis Mariani
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Here's a good starting point to help achieve what you want:

http://grizzlyweb.com/webmaster/javascripts/refresh.asp


Francis


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BobSh
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Francis,

The link you sent is helpful. Now, does anyone have an idea what file would need to be modified with this code? Would the application server need to be recycled with a change?


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Francis Mariani
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I am assuming you're running a WebFOCUS report that is displayed in a tab in a dashboard window.

I think you need to use the JavaScript refresh method as outlined.

Something like this WORKING example:

-SET &ECHO=ALL;

-*-- Determine Current Time Seconds to randomly select a Body Length-----
-SET &CTIME_SS = EDIT(HHMMSS('A8'),'$$$$$$99');

-SET &CAR_LENGTH =
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '00' TO '02' THEN '163' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '03' TO '04' THEN '165' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '05' TO '06' THEN '170' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '07' TO '08' THEN '176' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '09' TO '10' THEN '177' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '11' TO '12' THEN '182' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '13' TO '14' THEN '187' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '15' TO '16' THEN '188' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '17' TO '18' THEN '190' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '19' TO '20' THEN '163' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '21' TO '22' THEN '165' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '23' TO '24' THEN '195' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '25' TO '26' THEN '176' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '27' TO '28' THEN '177' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '29' TO '30' THEN '182' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '31' TO '32' THEN '187' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '33' TO '34' THEN '188' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '35' TO '36' THEN '190' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '37' TO '38' THEN '163' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '39' TO '40' THEN '165' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '41' TO '42' THEN '170' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '43' TO '44' THEN '176' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '45' TO '46' THEN '177' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '47' TO '48' THEN '182' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '49' TO '50' THEN '187' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '51' TO '52' THEN '188' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '53' TO '54' THEN '190' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '55' TO '56' THEN '163' ELSE
-  IF &CTIME_SS FROM '57' TO '58' THEN '165' ELSE
-  '195';

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
SEG.LENGTH
BY LENGTH NOPRINT
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
BY MODEL
BY BODYTYPE
WHERE LENGTH GE &CAR_LENGTH
HEADING
"&CAR_LENGTH"

ON TABLE HOLD AS H001 FORMAT HTMTABLE
END
-RUN

-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<html>

<head>
<title>Refresh JavaScript Example</title>

<script language="JavaScript">
var sURL = unescape(window.location.pathname);

function doLoad()
{
    setTimeout( "refresh()", 2*1000 );
}
</script>

<script language="JavaScript1.1">
<!--
function refresh()
{
    //  This version does NOT cause an entry in the browser's
    //  page view history.  Most browsers will always retrieve
    //  the document from the web-server whether it is already
    //  in the browsers page-cache or not.
    //
    window.location.replace( sURL );
}
//-->
</script>

<script language="JavaScript1.2">
<!--
function refresh()
{
    //  This version of the refresh function will be invoked
    //  for browsers that support JavaScript version 1.2
    //

    //  The argument to the location.reload function determines
    //  if the browser should retrieve the document from the
    //  web-server.  In our example all we need to do is cause
    //  the JavaScript block in the document body to be
    //  re-evaluated.  If we needed to pull the document from
    //  the web-server again (such as where the document contents
    //  change dynamically) we would pass the argument as 'true'.
    //
    window.location.reload( false );
}
//-->
</script>
</head>

<!--
    Use the "onload" event to start the refresh process.
-->
<body onload="doLoad()">

!IBI.FIL.H001;

</body>

</html>
-HTMLFORM END


Francis


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Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
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BobSh
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Thank you for the example. I will give it a try and update this posting with the results.

Bob


WebFOCUS 7.7.05M, gen 144, Windows 2008 Server R2 64-bit, Tomcat 6.0.33, IIS 7.0, SQL Server, Excel 2013, PDF, HTML, FOCUS files.
 
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