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John_Edwards
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I have a Data Migrator process that creates xml outputs and drops them into a subdirectory (any I choose) on the server. I would like to have Dashboard present the contents of that subdirectory in a frame, but I don't think it's as straightforward as I imagined. I was hoping to keep this inside the domain to let MRE enforce the security. Is this possible, or do I have to use the server's web services to restrict access to the appropriate user group?

Any light you can shed would be greatly appreciated.

J.



 
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Darin Lee
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You should be able to just add a URL object in the MRE domain that points to the file you want to display. Then in the Dashboard View Builder add a launch block that contains that URL from the desired MRE domain.


Regards,

Darin


In FOCUS since 1991
WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex
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John_Edwards
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The contents of the subdirectory will be dynamic, so a static link will not be sufficient.

At first I thought a folder block would do the job, but it appears that only works for focexecs.

J.



 
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Darin Lee
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You could create a static link to a dynamic page. There are numerous ways to make an HTML page display the contents of a directory as hyperlinks, or dynamically build an HTML page using some Perl script or other method. If nothing else you could just create a URL like 

ftp://servername/directory


which would display the directory contents for access via the ftp method. That's dynamic by nature.


Regards,

Darin


In FOCUS since 1991
WF Server: 7.7.04 on Linux and Z/OS, ReportCaster, Self-Service, MRE, Java, Flex
Data: DB2/UDB, Adabas, SQL Server Output: HTML,PDF,EXL2K/07, PS, AHTML, Flex
WF Client: 77 on Linux w/Tomcat
 
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Fernando
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John,

You could use a techinque that essentially lists the files in the directory into a file. This file would be a text file with master to describe it. Then a filedef to it and then build a report that shows the file and links to them.

Ex:

C:\myfiles contains a.xml and b.xml

dir /x > a.ftm creates a.ftm

create a master file (called DirInfo) that says

FIELD=CDATE, ACTUAL=A10, ...
FIELD=FILENAME, ACTUAL=A8, ...

THEN FILEDEF DIRINFO to a.ftm

and finally TABLE FILE DIRINFO
PRINT ...
COMPUTE LINK/A255='http:\\webserver\alias' | FILENAME ...

Fernando


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John_Edwards
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Well shut my mouth -- xml files, for some reason that I don't fully comprehend, appear in folder blocks just like reports do. Apparently I'm done here. Thanks for the help folks!

J.



 
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