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wlwright1
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I am filtering multiple graphs/reports in our portal using the "Magically Filtering" method. This has worked great in our 8007 environment. We are migrating to 8104 and I am looking to redesign the portal page that this is working on to take advantage of the fluid canvas. There are a lot of items on some of the graphs so I've add a "Make Selection" option to the selection boxes.

When doing this I get the auto-prompting screen for the parameters. I would like to have it not show the auto-prompting screen and instead a blank screen with possible message saying to make a selection.

I know about the admin page to change the auto-prompting page but I don't think that will suit my needs.

Does anyone have an idea on what I can do for this.


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I ended up going with the hidden field to pass the parameter that displays the htm page. Work great! Thanks.

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Waz
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All I can suggest is supplying -DEFAULTH for all parameters


Waz...

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CoolGuy
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I agree with Waz that you can use -DEFAULTH &var = value; if you haven't already done so to "disable" the autoprompt from popping up by giving everything default values.

In regards to setting up a simple message in place of the autoprompt facility popping up, you can supply a default value in a check at the top of your procedure/content to see if the form with the filters has passed its default values to the procedure yet or not by adding a hidden control (like a dropdown - calling it HIDDEN or something) to your form, and setting it to a static default value of like Y. The check at the top of your content would then be something like:

-IF &HIDDEN EQ 'N' THEN GOTO Wait;


Then at the bottom of your code, have something like:

-IF &HIDDEN EQ 'Y' THEN GOTO TheEnd;

-Wait

-HTMLFORM IBFS:/WFC/Repository/appFolder/subFolder/PlzWaitForFilters.htm

-TheEnd


This setup can be used for checking the hidden value, or even a value for a non-hidden filter like your wanting. If the user hasn't selected a certain filter value, you can check for that and then display a simple html message in place of running the report or graph until the user does select something for that filter.

Hope this helps!


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