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Don Garland
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I have an HTML Document/Parameter page, created with App Studio. This is inserted into a panel on a portal page.

There is an existing hidden input tied to an existing parameter/variable. I'm trying to change the variable name.

When I do, it unbinds the variable and disables the Tasks & Animations events. The result is, the objects in the tasks no longer refresh the portal page.

I've been working on this for hours and can not find away to re-enable the T&A functionality.

Has anyone else experienced something like this and were you able to recover?

Thank you,

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Doug
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I found that the best way to change variable names used in a parm page is to change them in the fex, using -DEFAULT, removing the associated task, and re-input the fex. This, I found, changes whatever was using the old variable.




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Don Garland
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I haven't used the requests section to pull in the fex because I worried about corrupting the HTML Doc. This page is particularly painful to loose and rebuild. It's a prototype and features were added daily, so a lot of movement.

But, you are right, I try it. I hadn't thought of this as a way to recover from a crashed.


Thanks Doug,


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Don Garland
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In my main fex, I changed the -DEFAULTH to -DEFAUT to enable prompting. I added the external procedure under the "Requests -> parameters" option.

The HTML page converted my existing manually created parameters (dashed lines) to externally created parameters (solid lines).

Looks like it's working as described in the manuals.

I think this post taught me that although I'm trying to create things in the GUI, I'm still holding on to old-school methods. It's time to drink the rest of the Kool-Aid Wink

Thanks Doug!


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Yep,
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It's time to drink the rest of the Kool-Aid
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Francis Mariani
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It's time to drink the rest of the Kool-Aid

All is lost.


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Quote: "All is lost." ... Wink
 
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Don Garland
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HA, ALL is not lost, it's just morphing.

The balancing act is this;

on one hand, WebFOCUS must compete with Tableau and Click View etc etc etc etc etc. which means there must be a fair amount of robust, fancy point and click, drag and drop stuff.

On the other hand, the capability to write code behind the scenes is a powerful differentiator for WebFOCUS. I believe it's always going to be there.

But will every future feature support it? I guess we will see.

FYI - I only took a sip Smiler


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