Prompt text in dialog manager.

Hi, I have a webfocus report need user to input information to generate a report. Say for example is a type. How do I display information to let user know what values are valid? We have webfocus7.6 intall in a sever, we access it thru IExplorer, is it called iWay? Anyway, I tried to use html lanch page, but I have no idea where my report stores in. I find the file name in the property, '\app\xxx.fex', but I put it in lanch page, it can't find the fex file. I'm not sure it's because of security consideration or else.. I can put checking in it, after user input wrong value, it prompts text message tells him what are correct ones. But they looking for comments/ways to tell them what valid values before they input it. any idea?

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Jacky

Posts: 20 | Location: Toronto | Registered: August 13, 2007

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Jacky

A lot of questions....

To point to the last, this might be a start

Say you want the user to input a date in a certain format you can start your FEX with

-DEFAULT &DATEINPUT='20070818';
-PROMPT &DATEINPUT.enter a date in the format YYMMDD.
TABEL FILE CAR
...
END

Of course there are many ways to test if the input is correct and the loop to the input again, but I would start with this.

BTW it is not called IWay. That's the firm that sells the programs (and more) to get the data from the databases.

	*Frank*
	prod: WF 7.6.10 platform Windows, databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7 test: WF 7.6.10 on the same platform and databases,IE7