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mark66
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Hi all,

I have a dynamic combo box that reads from a procedure that otuputs to XML. The procedure reads 2 fields from a file, one is the value to be displayed and used and the other is a flag which shows if this is the record to be selected or not.

I found some code on these forums quite a while back which has been working fine. However I have copied this code to another box running the same version of WF and it doesn't work the same and instead populates the combo with all the code that is normaly not shown in the comobo box?

I am sure this method is used quite a bit, so I hope someone can either spot the error in my define or provide me with a version they know works for them?!

DEFINE FILE MARKFILE
D_DROP_DOWN_STR/A120 = IF MARKFILE.SELECTED EQ 'Y' THEN
                       MARKFILE.TERRITORY || '" selected displaytext="' || MARKFILE.TERRITORY ||'">' || MARKFILE.TERRITORY || '</OPTION>'                          
                       ELSE MARKFILE.TERRITORY || '" displaytext="' || MARKFILE.TERRITORY ||'">' || MARKFILE.TERRITORY || '</OPTION>' ;
END
TABLE FILE MARKFILE
PRINT
D_DROP_DOWN_STR
BY D_DROP_DOWN_STR
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
-INCLUDE IBFS:/CFG/FILE/IBI_HTML_DIR/javaassist/intl/EN/ENDefaultTableStyle.sty
TYPE=REPORT,
   GRID=OFF,
 $
ENDSTYLE
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT XML
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
END


Many thanks

Mark

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Darin Lee
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I'm not sure how the output of this is subsequently used, but if it's supposed to be standalone, the markup is incomplete. A couple other items:

Whay are you bothering with stylesheets if it's just returning an XML file?

You have print field by field, which is going to give you the defined field twice. You're probably not going to want that. That's probably actually the cause of the problem you're seeing.

Try just outputting to format alpha (or PDF) so you can see what is actually being formed in the fields you are using.


Regards,

Darin


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Tony A
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I have copied this code to another box running the same version of WF
But this doesn't mean that it is configured the same way. I would hazard a guess that your installation has something that takes your XML and interprets it differently - probably a modified IBIRLSn.js module.

One way you could get a particular element as that selected without having to resort to modifications in IBI code is to resort the output in your fex - 
-* Note that this assumes the "SELECTED" value within your file is "Y" or missing OR "N"
DEFINE FILE MARKFILE
END
TABLE FILE MARKFILE
  SUM FST.D_DROP_DOWN_STR
   BY HIGHEST SELECTED NOPRINT
   BY D_DROP_DOWN_STR
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT XML
END

This will effectively bring your selected item to the top of your list (if you don't have the option for "ALL" checked!).

T


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mark66
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Hi Darin / Tony,

Thank you for your replies.

I think that the code I was trying to use had got mixed up and it is not usually possible to set the selected item in an XML file populating a combo box - although our first box did accept the code, even with the incomplete tags!

The code I had been trying to replicate is found in this example. I think the difference here is the html code is being generated in the fex and then passed to the combo box. What I am trying to do is populate the combo box directly with the xlm file as I am not calling a fex first.

Anyway! I have now abandoned trying to set the selected item and have used Tony's method of sorting the data so the selected record is always at the top. Much simpler!

Thanks for you help.

Mark


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