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MartinY
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Hi,

Don't know if you have notice that change but since WF8204 (or since a version after 8201M gen240) the "LABEL" tag are gone !!

Let me explain.
Up to at least WF8201M gen240, when you create a radio or checkbox control the Composer was creating a DIV tag with the below structure:
radio1 <DIV>
  table10 <TABLE>
    radio1_LABEL_0 <LABEL>
     radio10 <INPUT>
    radio1_LABEL_1 <LABEL>
     radio11 <INPUT>
    radio1_LABEL_2 <LABEL>
     radio12 <INPUT>

Now it's not anymore the case (at least since 8204). Creating a radio or checkbox now result in
radio1 <DIV>

You can still perform js and reference radio10, radio11 or radio12 such as below
radio10.checked = true;

But you CAN'T anymore reference, as per below, radio1_LABEL_0, radio1_LABEL_1 or radio1_LABEL_2 because they don't exist
radio1_LABEL_0.style.backgroundColor="red";

Does someone know how to perform the same action, as when I was referencing the label, but using WF8204 when the LABEL doesn't "exist" anymore ?
Having such a line of code in WF8204 prevent the page to load because of the undefined element.

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FP Mod Chuck
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Martin

Hopefully you have opened a case on this since no one has been able to give you any advice.


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Michael L Meagher
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I ended up deleting and recreating many radio buttons when I went from 8.1.05M to 8.2.03. A less than pleasant experience.


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MartinY
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Here a little update from my case :

quote:

This issue is a known behavior in the 8204 release.
The development team has created a patch for the 8204M release where all htm files created prior to this release (referencing the _LABEL tag) will work the same way as they did before.
However any new htm files that you create on 8204 will not work the same way (referencing LABEL tags will generate errors).

As for a way to do the same thing (referencing the button selection using LABEL tag), give me some time to test if the IBComposer functions can be used here.
The development team is working on this issue right now and I will try to find a workaround for you that you can use till a solution is found.


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Wep5622
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I think they came to the conclusion that always generating the radio button (and label) entries inside that DIV is a lot more generic than relying on inserting entries for static values and generating entries for dynamic values.

From a code maintenance point of view, that's understandably an improvement. For backwards compatibility, not so much...

Solving the incompatibility is a challenge though. I don't think it's reasonably possible to create a tool that can convert reliance on features of the old behaviour to the new behaviour, like in Martin's case.
Having both versions exist next to each other should be possible though, which works as long as you don't edit an "old" HTML in the new editor (a conversion warning with an opt-out would be nice).


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Michael L Meagher
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We will be going to a whole new look and feel for our next rewrite using all the new bells and whistles. I have code from the 8.0x HTML Composer I have kludged through a 8.1x and now an 8.2x upgrade.

That's assuming we still are using WebFOCUS the next time for our portals.


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