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Ron Woods
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Is there a method to escape the & character to keep it from being used as an & variable. The code below errors out on the &body statement:
-* File emailtest.fex
SET BYDISPLAY = ON
-RUN

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
MODEL
COMPUTE BODY/A19 = "&body=This is the email body";
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
ON TABLE HOLD FORMAT HTMTABLE
ON TABLE SET STYLESHEET *
TYPE=REPORT, GRID=OFF, FONT='ARIAL', SIZE=8, $
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=COUNTRY, JavaScript='fnMail(COUNTRY CAR BODY)', $
ENDSTYLE
END
-RUN
-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<script LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT>
function fnMail(Email,Subject,Body)
{
window.location = 'mailto: someone@somewhere.com' + '?Subject=' + Subject + Body;}

!IBI.FIL.HOLD;
-HTMLFORM END


Ron Woods
San Antonio Express-News
Release: WebFOCUS 7.1.1
OS/Platform: Windows XP SP2 x86 32bit
O/P Formats: Primarily pdf and xls
 
Posts: 22 | Location: San Antonio, Tx | Registered: October 20, 2005Report This Post
Leah
Virtuoso
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Have you tried using default. We use it to keep WebFOCUS from prompting when the '&' is in a report heading

-DEFAULT &S = '&S'


Leah
 
Posts: 1317 | Location: Council Bluffs, IA | Registered: May 24, 2004Report This Post
Kamesh
Master
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Try this,

SET BYDISPLAY = ON
-RUN

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
MODEL
COMPUTE BODY/A30 = 'body=This is the email body';
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
ON TABLE HOLD FORMAT HTMTABLE
ON TABLE SET STYLESHEET *
TYPE=REPORT, GRID=OFF, FONT='ARIAL', SIZE=8, $
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=COUNTRY, JavaScript='fnMail(COUNTRY CAR BODY)', $
ENDSTYLE
END
-RUN
-HTMLFORM BEGIN

<script LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT>
function fnMail(Email,Subject,Body)
{
alert("BODY : " + Body);
var tt='mailto: someone@somewhere.com' + '?Subject=' + Subject + '&' + Body ;
alert("tt : "+ tt);
-*window.location = 'mailto: someone@somewhere.com' + '?Subject=' + Subject + '&' + Body;}
}


!IBI.FIL.HOLD;


-HTMLFORM END
-EXIT


WFConsultant

WF 8105M on Win7/Tomcat
 
Posts: 780 | Location: Florida | Registered: January 09, 2005Report This Post
Francis Mariani
Expert
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Simply add a concatenation character whenever there's HTMLFORM involved (by the way, I made a couple of other small changes to make the program work:

-* File emailtest.fex

-SET &ECHO=ALL;

SET BYDISPLAY = ON
-RUN

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
MODEL
COMPUTE BODY/A30 = '&|body=This is the email body'; NOPRINT
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
ON TABLE HOLD AS H001 FORMAT HTMTABLE
ON TABLE SET STYLESHEET *
TYPE=REPORT, GRID=OFF, FONT='ARIAL', SIZE=8, $
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=COUNTRY, JavaScript='fnMail(COUNTRY CAR BODY)', $
ENDSTYLE
END
-RUN

-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT>
function fnMail(Email,Subject,Body)
{
window.location = 'mailto: someone@somewhere.com' + '?Subject=' + Subject + Body;}
</SCRIPT>
!IBI.FIL.H001;
-HTMLFORM END


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
Posts: 10577 | Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Registered: April 27, 2005Report This Post
Darin Lee
Virtuoso
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I think Francis' idea is the quickest and the one I use most. I find that simply inserting a concatenation | symbol after the ampersand works in most cases.


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
 
Posts: 2298 | Location: Salt Lake City, Utah | Registered: February 02, 2007Report This Post
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