[SOLVED] Parameter Auto-Prompt -- Change "No Selection" Text?

Hi,

I've searched through the IBI Tech Support and Focal Points sites and am not seeing a way to do this, so I suspect it is not something that can be changed. But I'm going to ask anyway.

We have an internal customer who doing a lot of parameter selection/passing using the auto-prompt facility. This seems to suit their purposes pretty well, however they do not like that the display text for FOC_NONE / Select ALL is "No Selection". They feel that this is confusing to their users. Does anyone have a work-around or way that this can be changed in the default listbox prompt that gets created here? I have found some documentation that describes how it could be changed with a static list, but they're going against table values in this example.

(I've already mentioned to them that they may need to create their own HTML forms for this).

In case it's relevant: I am currently running 7.6.9 on AIX.

Regards,

Debbie Sullivan

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Francis Mariani

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I scanned the folder C:\ibi\WebFOCUS76\ibi_html\javaassist and found that "No selection" is specified in a few JavaScript and HTML files.

My guess is that you can change file C:\ibi\WebFOCUS76\ibi_html\javaassist\ibi\html\describe\APAutoprompt.js (line 176).

Of course, since you're in an AIX environment, the location of the file will be slightly different than the Windows location I specified. Make a backup of the file first. Also, this change will probably have to be made every time there's a hot-fix or upgrade.

Francis

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Deborah Sullivan

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Thanks for the update. These are files that our developers and application support users are unlikely to have access to. We would most likely have to have an operations group get into the file to edit -- which also makes testing (as well as backing out a change that doesn't go well) a bit dicey. Still, it gives us a direction to look so this may be a possibility for this group, just change the default for the entire report environment. I guess there is no way to override or work-around the default text inside of a fex anyway. That was mostly where I was going with this.

Thanks for your help and insight!

-Debbie Sullivan

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