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Kevin Patterson
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I can easily create a run button that will kick off multiple fex's in different frames. But I cannot figure out how to create a drop down list of fex's and make the run button execute the selected fex in one frame. Allowing the user to run different reports one at a time in one frame.

Has anyone done something like this before? Thanks for any suggestions you can offer.

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Kevin Patterson
Appalachian State University
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Waz
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How did you create the launch page ?


Waz...

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GamP
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You could do it like this:
1. create 3 fex files, called for instance apps.fex, fexes.fex and runfex.fex
Contents apps.fex:
-* File apps.fex
APP LIST HOLD
TABLE FILE FOCAPPL
BY APPNAME
WHERE APPNAME NE 'foccache' OR 'baseapp';
ON TABLE PCHOLD
END
This will give a list of available application directories to choose from.
Contents fexes.fex:
-* File fexes.fex
APP QUERY &APPNAME HOLD
TABLE FILE FOCAPPQ
PRINT FILENAME
WHERE FILENAME CONTAINS '.fex';
ON TABLE PCHOLD
END
This will present a list of fexes within the chosen app.
Contents runfex.fex:
-* File runfex.fex
-SET &RUNCMD = &APPNAME || '/' || &FILENAME;
APP PREPENDPATH &APPNAME
EX &RUNCMD
This just runs the fex.
Last thing is to create a html startpage that contains two dropdown boxes filled with the results from the apps and fexes procedures and a run button to call runfex with target the iframe that is also on the page (or a new window or ...). Be sure to chain the two dropdowns.


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MAdams1
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How many fex's are you using to populate the drop down? Are you talking just a few or hundreds ?


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Windows 2008 Server
WebFOCUS AppStudio 8.1.05
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dbeagan
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You could have the run button pass a Fexid number and any other parameters to this fex:
-DEFAULT &Fexid = 1;

-Fex1
-IF &Fexid NE 1 THEN GOTO Fex2
-INCLUDE SALESREPORT
-GOTO TheEnd

-Fex2
-IF &Fexid NE 2 THEN GOTO TheEnd
-INCLUDE HRREPORT
-GOTO TheEnd

-TheEnd


I would avoid things like: 
 -INCLUDE &Fexname

it is not MR compatible and not as clear.

Hope this helps.


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michael10
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You could create a Dropdown (combobox1), populate values and texts (fex name), add an iframe (iframe1), add Button (button1) and add this javascript-code in onclick-event of Button:

function button1_onclick(ctrl) {
var val=document.getElementById("combobox1").selectedIndex;
window.iframe1.location.href='/ibi_apps/WFServlet?IBIF_ex='+document.getElementById("combobox1").options[val].value;

}

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MAdams1
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michael10, AWESOME! Much simpler than what I was working on.
Thanks for sharing


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Posts: 272 | Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan | Registered: September 30, 2010Report This Post
Kevin Patterson
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Sorry for the slow replying (just found where I was filtering these to). Thanks so much for the feedback! I'll try a few of those things. I'm sure I'll have more questions.

Waz, I'm creating my html launch page using webfocus developer's html composer.


Kevin Patterson
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