[SOLVED] Ampersand variables in an HTML launch page

This client is using Version 7.7.03.

I am building HTML Launch pages in the MRE. The row level security is being based on the &IBIMR_user variable.

In order to provide the ability to send the report request to the Report Caster using the generic "Schedule" button, I need to find a way to send this value to the Report Caster. One possibility is to use a hidden input box, but how can I populate it with the corect value? Having the value appear in a "View Source" is not a limitation due to other aspects of the security system.

Is there perhaps a function in one of the many javascript includes that ride along with pages created in the HTML composer that would accomplish this?

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Couldn't you have a hidden control in the form linked to a Parameter settings it's value to !IBI.AMP.IBIMR_user; ?

The "Schedule" button passes all Parameters defined in the form when creating the schedule in RC so in theory, your hidden parameter would be sent to Caster along with whatever value &IBIMr_user has.

Too simplistic or did I misunderstand your requirement?

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You understood perfectly, now, would you perhaps have a snippet of code that will do this?

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Well, I don't but I tried to make up something quick. I don't have access to MRE in my local env. so the "schedule" button is not in the form ... but the concept is the same.

1. car_user.fex The actual report expecting &USERID as a parameter

-DEFAULT &USERID='guest';
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
     CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY
     CAR.COMP.CAR
ON TABLE SUBHEAD
"Hello <+0>&USERID"
WHERE CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY EQ '&COUNTRY.(FIND CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY,CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY IN car).COUNTRY.';
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
END

2. run_car_user.htm HTML launch page. Upon referencing car_user.fex in HTMl composer, 2 controls were created: USERID (hidden) and COUNTRY (drop-down).

In the parameter's tab, I selected the control for &USERID parameter (inputhidden1 in this case), right-click > "properties and settings" and set its "Selected Value" as !IBI.AMP.IBIMR_user; that's it. when the "Run" button (or 'Run Deferred' or 'Schedule') is hit a request is created to run car_user.fex passing &USERID and &COUNTRY to it.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META id=mycharsetmeta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type>
<META id=Generation content="Created in release 7703, Generation 3.0">
<SCRIPT id=IBI_RelCallBack type=text/javascript>function AdjustChildrenPosition(){
}
</SCRIPT>

<SCRIPT id=IBI_OptionsScript type=text/javascript>
var cgipath = "cgipath";
var ibirls = "ibirls3";

var rltdyncalendar = "rltdyncalendar";
var gmap = "ibigmap";
var olap="olap";
var olappanebase="olappanebase";
var olapdrill="olapdrill";

var ibixmltree="ibixmltree";

var ibiOptions = new Array(cgipath,ibirls);
</SCRIPT>

<SCRIPT id=IBI_nls type=text/javascript src="/ibi_html/javaassist/nls.js"></SCRIPT>

<SCRIPT id=IBI_nlsVars type=text/javascript src="/ibi_html/javaassist/nlsvars.js"></SCRIPT>

<SCRIPT id=IBI_ibigbl type=text/javascript src="/ibi_html/javaassist/ibi/html/js/ibigbl.js"></SCRIPT>

<SCRIPT id=IBI_ibigblloadCss type=text/javascript>
ibigblloadCss(null);
addIntlTranslatedJS("composertrans.js");
</SCRIPT>
<TITLE>HtmlPage</TITLE>
<SCRIPT id=clientEventHandlersJS type=text/javascript>
//Begin function window_onload
function window_onload() {
 
UpdateData();
 
// TODO: Add your event handler code here
//add onInitialUpdate() function to make changes before initial run of the reports
}
//End function window_onload
</SCRIPT>

<SCRIPT for=window type=text/javascript eventname="onload">window.onload = function() { window_onload(); }</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY style="OVERFLOW: auto" nextelementuniquenumber="2" thumbnailscale="4" elementtype="21" edaconnectionrequired="true">
<IFRAME style="Z-INDEX: 1; POSITION: absolute; WIDTH: 310px; HEIGHT: 300px; TOP: 120px; LEFT: 0px" id=report1 title=car_user.fex tabIndex=1 elementtype="2" requests_list="0" autoExecute="false" name="report1"></IFRAME>
<FORM style="Z-INDEX: 2; POSITION: absolute; WIDTH: 177px; HEIGHT: 110px; TOP: 0px; LEFT: 0px" id=form1 onsubmit="OnExecute(this);return false;" method=post requests_list="0" tempheight="110" tempwidth="177" fexlist_list="report1" form_newline_chain="1" default_slider_type="4" form_type="1" form_prompt_location="1" form_number_of_visible_rows="4" form_number_of_columns="4" vert_dist_between_controls="10" form_hor_dist_between_controls="10" form_dist_between_desc_and_input="10" name="form1">
<INPUT style="Z-INDEX: 5; POSITION: absolute; OVERFLOW-Y: visible; WIDTH: 187px; HEIGHT: 22px; OVERFLOW: visible; TOP: -10000px; LEFT: -10000px" id=inputhidden1 tabIndex=4 value=!IBI.AMP.IBIMR_user; hspace=0 type=hidden defaultlocation="-10000,-10000,-9978,-9833" boundtovariable="1" requiredfield="1" persistentuniqueid="compUid_1" name="inputhidden1"> 
<LABEL style="Z-INDEX: 6; POSITION: absolute; WIDTH: 77px; HEIGHT: 19px; TOP: 5px; CURSOR: default; LEFT: 5px" id=label1 tabIndex=5 for=combobox1 name="combobox1">COUNTRY</LABEL> 
<SELECT style="Z-INDEX: 7; POSITION: absolute; WIDTH: 140px; TOP: 34px; LEFT: 5px" id=combobox1 tabIndex=6 size=1 defaultlocation="0,0,22,120" boundtovariable="1" requiredfield="1" persistentuniqueid="compUid_2" name="combobox1"></SELECT> 
<INPUT style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(htmlpathsub/javaassist/ibi/html/describe/run16.gif); Z-INDEX: 3; POSITION: absolute; BACKGROUND-COLOR: lavender; WIDTH: 38px; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: no-repeat; HEIGHT: 22px; TOP: 83px; LEFT: 5px" id=form1Submit tabIndex=2 value=" " type=submit StyleBack_UserSuppliedFullPath="1" name="submit1"> 
<INPUT style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(htmlpathsub/javaassist/ibi/html/describe/reset.gif); Z-INDEX: 4; POSITION: absolute; BACKGROUND-COLOR: lavender; WIDTH: 38px; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: no-repeat; HEIGHT: 22px; TOP: 83px; LEFT: 48px" id=form1Reset tabIndex=3 value=" " type=reset StyleBack_UserSuppliedFullPath="1" name="reset1"></FORM>   
<INPUT style="POSITION: absolute; TOP: -100px; LEFT: -100px" id=layoutinfo type=hidden resourcectrlids="form1Submit;form1Reset">
<INPUT style="POSITION: absolute; TOP: -100px; LEFT: -100px" id=ibiapp_app value=test type=hidden name="ibiapp_app">
<INPUT style="POSITION: absolute; TOP: -100px; LEFT: -100px" id=ibic_server value=EDASERVE type=hidden isdataserversarea="1" name="ibic_server">
<xml id=focus_xmlelement>
<script type="text/xml" nextelementuniquenumber="3">
	
<rootxmlnode focoption="_FOC_NULL" top="100" left="10" width="150" height="130">
		
<variables>
			
<variable controltype="7" parametercreatedinreslay="0" type="default" desc="USERID" name="USERID" default="guest" textvarname="" accept="0" select="0" create="1" top="70" left="30" width="60" height="20" inbinding="1">
				
<link linktype="default" from="compUid_1" persistentuniqueid="compUid_1">
					
<condition default="1" name="Default" whattodowithcontrol="4" valuescompareoperator="0" parameterscompareoperator="0" conditionmultiselectoperator="0">
						
<data_info checkForDuplicateValues="0" displayfield="USERID" datafield="USERID" datasource="car.mas" datatype="0" selectedvalue="guest" operation="" slider_range_from="" slider_range_to="" previewvalue="guest" sourcetype="typeMaster" linktype="none">
							
<static_values>
								
<static value="guest" display="guest" selected="1" noinput="0"></static></static_values></data_info></condition></link>
				
<requestid id="0"></requestid></variable>
			
<variable controltype="8" parametercreatedinreslay="0" type="unresolved" desc="COUNTRY" name="COUNTRY" default="" textvarname="" accept="0" select="0" create="1" top="70" left="140" width="60" height="20" inbinding="1">
				
<link linktype="default" from="compUid_2">
					
<condition default="1" name="Default" whattodowithcontrol="4" valuescompareoperator="0" parameterscompareoperator="0" conditionmultiselectoperator="0">
						
<data_info checkForDuplicateValues="0" displayfield="CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY" ibiformat="A10" datafield="CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY" datasource="car.mas" datatype="1" selectedvalue="" operation="" slider_range_from="" slider_range_to="" previewvalue="" sourcetype="typeMaster"></data_info></condition></link>
				
<requestid id="0"></requestid></variable></variables>
		
<input_controls>
			
<input_control bindcontrolid="compUid_1" elementtype="26" name="inputhidden1" id="inputhidden1" multiple="0" inbinding="1" top="20" left="30" width="60" height="20" onetimepopulated="1">
				
<link linktype="default" persistentuniqueid="compUid_2">
					
<condition default="1" name="Default" whattodowithcontrol="0" valuescompareoperator="0" parameterscompareoperator="0" conditionmultiselectoperator="0">
						
<data_info checkForDuplicateValues="0" datatype="0" datasource="car.mas" addalloption="0" sourcetype="typeMaster" cacheruntimedata="0" accept="0" operation="NONE" selectedvalue="!IBI.AMP.IBIMR_user;">
							
<static_values>
<static value="!IBI.AMP.IBIMR_user;" display="!IBI.AMP.IBIMR_user;" selected="1" noinput="0"></static></static_values></data_info></condition></link></input_control>
			
<input_control bindcontrolid="compUid_2" elementtype="8" name="combobox1" id="combobox1" multiple="0" inbinding="1" top="20" left="140" width="60" height="20" onetimepopulated="0">
				
<link linktype="default">
					
<condition default="1" name="Default" whattodowithcontrol="0" valuescompareoperator="0" parameterscompareoperator="0" conditionmultiselectoperator="0">
						
<data_info checkForDuplicateValues="0" datatype="1" datasource="car.mas" datafield="CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY" displayfield="CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY" addalloption="0" sourcetype="typeMaster" cacheruntimedata="0" ibiformat="A10" dfformat="A10" accept="0" selectedvalue="" operation="NONE">
							
<![CDATA[TABLE FILE car
SUM FST.CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY
 BY CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY
-*insert_filters_here
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT XML
END
]]></data_info></condition></link></input_control></input_controls>
		
<other_bound_objects></other_bound_objects>
		
<requests nextrequestsid="0">
			
<request requestid="0" targettype="iframe" targetname="report1" sourcetype="typeFex" ibif_ex="car_user.fex" ibiapp_app="test" activereport="0" compoundreport="0" reportcolumns="" reportrealcolumns=""></request></requests></rootxmlnode></script>
</xml></BODY>
<SCRIPT id=IBI_loader type=text/javascript>
doBeforeLoad();
</SCRIPT>
</HTML>

I assume that &IBIMR_user is set to (pass) from the WebFOCUS Client in your environment but to be safe, here's a stub procedure to -DEFAULT that variable to something before loading the HTML page.

3. run_car_user.fex

-DEFAULT &IBIMR_user='guess_who';
-HTMLFORM run_car_user.htm

You would start the process from 3) which will load 2) and finally executes 1) ... sorry, I put the code backwards but that's the order in which I created them so ...

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Thank you very much.

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You're welcome.

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remember that ReportCaster doesn't understand &IBIMR_User (I think it is DSTEDAUSER in ReportCasterville). In any event, schedule a job with a task containing ?& and you'll see what's available.

Simply passing values will work as you've both noted.

- ABT

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OS: Windows Server 2003
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Authentication: LDAP, MRREALM Driver
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Yep. That's why we created &USERID to be the one passed to Caster and the final .fex.

I did not know about DSTEDAUSER ... well, to be honest I've never made API calls to the distribution server via DST

Now I'll have to read!

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