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GavinL
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I know I can use &| to allow webfocus to know this isn't a variable, but when I was at summit, they talked about a SET command that would do the same thing so you don't have to change all your amps to amp bar. I was thinking it was SET &ECHO = ALL; but that doesn't seem to be working. I also tried SET DEFECHO = ALL; which also didn't work.

Anyone know which command to set?



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Nevermind, coworker remembered it..

-HTMLFORM BEGIN NOEVAL



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Francis Mariani
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Well, that's a revelation!!! I did not know about NOEVAL - always something to learn! Thanks Gavin.


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GavinL
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Amazing the hidden things we find or is mentioned somewhere, but not easily found. Careful with that though, because any actual variables being used will not work with NOEVAL set.



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Waz
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Same here, I just wish there was a list of these hidden gems.


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...mentioned somewhere, but not easily found...
I was curious as to where it might be documented.

I've read the -HTMLFORM syntax listing in Chapter 5 Managing Flow of Control in an Application in the Developing Reporting Apps manual, several times over the years, and didn't remember seeing the 'NOEVAL' option.

Did a search and there was the '-HTMLFORM BEGIN NOEVAL' syntax 'hiding' in the 'Amper Auto-Prompting Considerations' section of Chapter 3! Definitely needs to be listed in the syntax section.

I will try this parm the next time I am building URL querystrings, within a HTML form construct.

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Kevin W
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This sounds vaguely familiar. Check the contents of Walter Blood's Hidden Gems classes from this year's Summit. I don't have time to dig for it.


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Doug
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Try these:More Hidden Gems Hands-On: Walter Blood, Information Builders (2014), Part 5 (2015) He did an Awesome job in presenting this, every time...




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CoolGuy
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Good to know! Thanks Gavin!

Oh the day the docs are actually updated properly and the search actually works decently... If only...

Until then... To the forums!! lol


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GavinL
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Originally posted by David Briars:

Did a search and there was the '-HTMLFORM BEGIN NOEVAL' syntax 'hiding' in the 'Amper Auto-Prompting Considerations' section of Chapter 3! Definitely needs to be listed in the syntax section.


The URL David was mentioning as I was just in search of it again..
http://infocenter.informationb...e/source/topic36.htm



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