is this possible with webfocus?

Yes. What exactly are you trying to do? What platform/operating system are you running WF on? What version of WF are you using.

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I am running webfocus 7 on windows NT
ill get the sig up

what I need to do is display all pdfs in a folder on the server

I have a directory on our server that contains PDF documents. I added this directory to the APP PATH which then allows me to do an APP QUERY PDFDIRNAME HOLD. This will create a HOLD file called FOCAPPQ which contains information about all the files in that directory. Do a TABLE FILE FOCAPPQ to look for the filename.

Alternatively you can have WebFOCUS invoke a BATCH file that simply does something like this:

CD
dir /b *.pdf > pdffiles.txt

a .txt file will be created with all the PDF files.