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bcook278
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In HTML Composer do you always need to import a report first and choose the add filters option to add dropdowns, listboxes, etc to control your report filters or is it also possible to start by designing the UI with all the dropdowns, listboxes, buttons you want and then setup links to filter your report? I am able to get all my controls to load with the correct values but don't see any way to point these to a report procedure to pass those parameters. I would think you should be able to do this from either perspective but can quite figure out how to setup those relationships when starting with all the controls first.

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Bob

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Mighty Max
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Let's say that you have a simple launch page with using the CAR file.
You have two dropdowns named COUNTRY and CAR.
Make sure that the unique ids are also COUNTRY and CAR.
All you would need to do would be to add a button and and create the hyperlink to an external procedure.
The extrenal procedure would use the parameters &COUNTRY and &CAR.
  
-* External Procedure
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
     DEALER_COST
     SALES
WHERE COUNTRY EQ '&COUNTRY';
WHERE CAR EQ '&CAR';
END


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bcook278
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Thanks. I think this gives me more to work with. Appreciate the feedback.


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Doug
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While either way can work, I have found it much better to get the fex (and associated fexes that provide the appropriate XML output) to work as desired before creating a Launch Page. That way the controls will be assigned to the variables (when you add your hyperlink to your "submit" button) and, with the proper assignments, will result in a Launch Page which is much easier to develope and maintain - IMHO Music




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