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secret
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I am trying to call a fex from an href in an htmlform (MRE). It calls the fex but does not populate the & variables. Does anyone
have any ideas.

Thanks in advance


-SET &RNDM = RDUNIF(D8) * RDUNIF(D8) * 10000000;
-SET &URLSRC = 'http://placidmaint:8080/ibi_apps/WFServlet?IBIMR_action=MR_RUN_FEX&' |
- 'IBIMR_sub_action=MR_STD_REPORT&' |
- 'IBIMR_fex=app/rx_trend_excel.fex&' |
- 'IBIMR_folder=#dasboardcomp&' |
- 'IBIMR_domain=rxdashb\rxdashb.htm&' |
- 'IBIMR_flags=skipamper&' |
- 'IBIMR_random=' | &RNDM.EVAL | '&' |
- 'YEAR=' | &YEAR.EVAL | '&' |
- 'KPI=' | &KPI.EVAL | '&' |
- 'GRAD1=' | &GRAD1.EVAL | '&' |
- 'GRAD2=' | &GRAD2.EVAL | '&' |
- 'RNDM=' | &RNDM.EVAL;

-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<TABLE BORDER=0>
  <TR>
    <TD>&|nbsp;</TD>
	<TD colspan="2" align="center"><FONT face="Arial">[b]&HDG1 &HEADING.EVAL[/b]</FONT></TD>
    <TD align="right"><A HREF=&URLSRC TARGET="_blank"><IMG id=image1 border=0 src="/approot/baseapp/exllogo.gif" name="image1"></A></TD>
  </TR>
  <TR>
    <TD colspan="4" valign="middle">!IBI.FIL.HOLD_TREND_GR1;</TD>
  </TR>
</TABLE>
-HTMLFORM END

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Posts: 103 | Location: ricmmond va | Registered: September 30, 2004Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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Please put this code between 
[code]
your code here
[/code]
tags.


Francis


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njsden
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Just run your fex but don't click the link. Instead, use the "View Source" option in your browser and take a peek at the generated HTML code and focus on the href attribute in the <A> tag. It should clearly show what URL will be passed.


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Posts: 1533 | Registered: August 12, 2005Report This Post
ABT
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off hand, i'd say you have extra spaces thrown into the URL and the unescaped ampersands might be throwing stuff off too.

rxdashb\rxdashb.htm should be rxdashb/rxdashb.htm

Use: &| instead of &

-ABT

View source should fill in all the blanks.


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OS: Windows Server 2003
Application/Web Server: Tomcat 5.5.25
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Authentication: LDAP, MRREALM Driver
Output: PDF, EXL2K, HTM

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Posts: 561 | Registered: February 03, 2010Report This Post
secret
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Here is the view source:


-SET &RNDM = RDUNIF(D8) * RDUNIF(D8) * 10000000;
-SET &URLSRC = 'http://placidmaint:8080/ibi_apps/WFServlet?IBIMR_action=MR_RUN_FEX&' |
- 'IBIMR_sub_action=MR_STD_REPORT&' |
- 'IBIMR_fex=app/rx_trend_excel.fex&' |
- 'IBIF_ex=app/rx_trend_excel.fex&' |
- 'IBIMR_folder=#dasboardcomp&' |
- 'IBIMR_domain=rxdashb\rxdashb.htm&' |
- 'IBIMR_flags=skipamper&' |
- 'IBIMR_drill=RUNNID&' |
- 'IBIMR_random=' | 9331444 | '&' |
- 'YEAR=' | 2012 | '&' |
- 'KPI=' | COMPUTER_RETAIL_SALES | '&' |
- 'GRAD1=' | YEAR | '&' |
- 'GRAD2=' | WEEK_OF_YEAR | '&' |
- 'RNDM=' | 9331444;
-*url += "&IBIMR_flags=&IBIMR_drill=RUNNID";
-TYPE http://placidmaint:8080/ibi_ap...EAR&RNDM=9331444
http://placidmaint:8080/ibi_ap...EAR&RNDM=9331444
-RUN
0 NUMBER OF RECORDS IN GRAPH= 121 PLOT POINTS= 53
-HTMLFORM BEGIN
-HTMLFORM END
 
Posts: 103 | Location: ricmmond va | Registered: September 30, 2004Report This Post
j.gross
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quote:
&URLSRC

Within the scope of -htmlform, you should use
!IBI.AMP.URLSRC;
instead.

Same goes for &HDG1 and &HEADING.
 
Posts: 1925 | Location: NYC | In FOCUS since 1983 | Registered: January 11, 2005Report This Post
Tony A
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Bob,

ABT and Jack have identified what I would have mentioned, that is use &| instead of plain & an use !IBI.AMP.URLSRC; within the HTML.

I would also recommend keeping filenames to be used with !IBI.FIL.~~~~~; to 12 characters or less as I have seen problems in this area.

T


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Posts: 5694 | Location: United Kingdom | Registered: April 08, 2004Report This Post
j.gross
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Let's see. The &URLSRC value in your post unfURLs to
http://placidmaint:8080/ibi_apps/WFServlet
?
IBIMR_action=MR_RUN_FEX
&
IBIMR_sub_action=MR_STD_REPORT
&
IBIMR_fex=app/rx_trend_excel.fex
&
IBIF_ex=app/rx_trend_excel.fex
&
IBIMR_folder=#dasboardcomp
&
IBIMR_domain=rxdashb%5Crxdashb.htm
&
IBIMR_flags=skipamper
&
IBIMR_drill=RUNNID
&
IBIMR_random=9331444
&
YEAR=2012
&
KPI=COMPUTER_RETAIL_SALES
&
GRAD1=YEAR
&
GRAD2=WEEK_OF_YEAR
&
RNDM=9331444


Interesting -- you pass two fex names to execute:
MR-style:
IBIMR_fex=app/rx_trend_excel.fex
and self-service style:
IBIF_ex=app/rx_trend_excel.fex

That sounds like you have stored copies of rx_trend_excel.fex in both places -- MR repository, and server app folder. If the IBIMR_fex parm is indeed honored, the MR copy will be uploaded (via EX -LINES), and then the backend server will have two copies -- one temporarily "loaded" somewhere, the other sitting in some APP folder. I wonder which would win?

In any event,
(a) if it's stored in two places, do you have evidence of which version is actually executing?
(b) exactly what is your evidence that the application parameters (&YEAR, &KPI, &GRAD1 and &GRAD2) did not receive the values coded into the url?


- Jack Gross
WF through 8.1.05
 
Posts: 1925 | Location: NYC | In FOCUS since 1983 | Registered: January 11, 2005Report This Post
secret
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&|

Thank You Tony and Jack and ABT

I have made all the changes you suggested.

same result

I downloaded fiddler and the URL passed is

GET http://placidmaint:8080/ibi_ap...el.fex&IBIMR_folder= HTTP/1.1


Note the folder is the problem.

the # seems to truncate the url.

Also in the called fex I have -? & and and exit.

It calls the fex.

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secret
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The problem was solved by moving the folder variable to the last variable on the list. Makes no sense to me but since thats where it was truncating I tried it and it worked.
 
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j.gross
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IBIMR_folder=#dasboardcomp


So URLencode that as IBIMR_folder=%23dasboardcomp

-- just as you did with IBIMR_domain
 
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