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Francis Mariani
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Designing a User Interface for a Web Application With the HTML Composer > Creating and Using Parameters in the HTML Composer > Using Input Controls to Supply Parameter Value

If you name your report output format variable WFFMT and use radio buttons for the control, you can choose to include images for each of the selected formats.

It results in something like this, which you can subsequently modify slightly, playing with the Columns property:



Francis


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njsden
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Cool!

I was wondering how HTML Composer "knew" to use those fancy buttons/images when I just selected "User" from the drop-down list of available output formats in Report Painter and later referenced that procedure in Composer.

&WFFMT.(<HTML,HTML>,<PDF,PDF>,<Excel 2000,EXL2K>,<Excel Formula,EXL2K FORMULA>,<HTML Active Report,AHTML>,
<Active Report for Adobe Flash Player,FLEX>,<Active Report for PDF,APDF>,<PowerPoint,PPT>).Select type of display output.


I assumed it was somehow parsing the PROMPT assigned to the variable to figure that out but now I see it was all in the amper variable name itself. Well, it should still parse it to determine which button to enable but I don't think that would work with a different variable name.

Very nice to know. Thanks for sharing Francis.


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Francis Mariani
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The odd thing is that it picks the images from h t t p://server:8080/ibi_apps//dhtml/images/qb/.

h t t p://server:8080/ibi_apps//d...ormat_browser_32.png

If you want to change those images, you can't seem to navigate back to that app folder, at least when the html file is in MRE - you only have access to the MRE Other folder.

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Francis,

What version of WF does your document cover? I have a "7.6.9 and higher" document, but I can not seem to find what you mention.

Thanks for the help.


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Francis Mariani
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It's probably a v7.7 new feature. I'm working with v7.7.02 and v7.7.03. Look at v7.6.11 - several new things were introduced.


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