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Thanks for stopping by to read this. I am converting a FEX from FOCUS and have encountered some problems: 1. I decided to add a prompt that was quite long and found that it truncated at 80 characters. Is this a known limitation? 2. A prompt from old FOCUS stored its value to a double-amper variable &&SETTHIS. It didn't recognize it as a prompt unless I made it a single-amper variable &SETTHIS. 3. Can a prompt include another amper variable? I want to read a date from another FEX (no problem) and include it in the prompt. "Is 09/30/2004 in XYZ FEX correct?" -PROMPT &DATESOK.Is the date &THISDATE in FRISMOD correct, Y OR N?. Assistance gratefully received.
I'm not sure why, but the default prompt page you get from webfocus puts maxlength=75 in the input tag. Create your own HTML launch page or use Resource Layout.
Thanks! I suspect there is a real restriction on prompt length if the default is 75 characters. I just didn't understand why my prompt wouldn't work and now I do. I'll just keep the prompts shorter for now. At least we have another stumbling block explained as we convert 2 zillion mainframe FOCUS files over to WEBFOCUS. OK it's not 2 zillion, it just feels like it with time pressures...Again, many thanks for your time.
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