Greetings All!

I need a bit of help. I have a report that contains many frames and no submit button. The
initial frames (I'll call them F1 and F2) are
populated by executing the fex onload. Inside
of one of the frames (F1) a drill down is enabled.
This drill down goes to a third frame (F3) which
also has a drill down. My desire is for the user
to be able to select Excel, PDF or HTML as their
output of choice (in addition to deciding whether
or not the last frame (F5) is to be opened in a new window or not). All of my reports have a submit except for this one and I use simple html code to pass the option parms to the fex. I
am stumped however on how to code the option for
the user when they have reached the F3. The
check box and pull-down list are in a seperate
frame (F4). I use JS extensively and I have
seen a fex that has an inline Javascript call
in its drill down. I am not sure however where
the .js or script is to be located for such a use.
So instead of the normal submit button calling
js to determine the status of the check box and
pull down, I need to be able to check the status
of F4's controls from F5 before F5 renders its'
output from the fex.

Any help will be appreciated!

Don

My apologies... we have very recently converted
to 5.2.3 from 4.3.6.

Don

Don, if you're running on a windows server platform and running ISAPI not servlet, you can teach your end users to right clickon any html table output, a menu pops up, select "export to excel", and bingo you're done. works like a charm. much better than the xml viewer you get with pchold format ...;
If you have a self-serv app, you can override your servlet default setting easily, and use isapi instead.
but if not...
then
You can write your fex with the choice to rerun the fex in either pdf or excel by offering those choices in the header of your fex, and each choice is a drilldown to rerun the same fex with a different output type.
eg:
TABLE FILE CAR
do stuff
ON TABLE HOLD AS MYOUTUT FORMAT HTMTABLE
END
-RUN
-HTMLFORM BEGIN
[HTML>
[!-- WEBFOCUS TABLE MYOUTPUT -->
[/HTML>
-HTMLFORM END
----------------
ok so far? you know the [ are really left brackets, right?
now, in your fex, write a heading
HEADING
"PICK YOUR OUTPUT TYPE"
"PDF EXCEL "
...blah blah blah
and in your stylesheet
TYPE=HEADING,LINE=2,ITEM=1,FOCEXEC=myfex(OPTION=PDF ....etc),$
TYPE=HEADING,LINE=2,ITEM=2,FOCEXEC=myfex(OPTION=EXCEL....etc),$
ok so far?
now in your fex, you have some variable
-DEFAULT &OPTION = 'HTML';
and in the fex code you set your output
however you want to, according to the value
of the &OPTION variable.
Howzat??
send me a PM if you need more help; i may not stop back this way for a while.

Susannah,

Thank you very much for the reply! We are running
536 on USS in a Z/OS environment. I think your post is quite accurate on the end result and will
provide a good solution to many that read it.
Unfortunately your remedy is actually the design
that my current report exists in. I am trying to
provide only a pull down and check box for the users to interface with as my original report
utilized the multiple drill down HTML, EXCEL and
PDF choices that you described. We find the
style with multiple hyperlinks to be a bit messy
and desire to clean up the appearence of the
report. I am hoping to only have the inclusion
of the data drill down itself merge with the user's ability to select their report output with a pull down choice of HTML, EXCEL and PDF and a
checkbox to denote whether or not the report is
to open in a new window. I am hoping that your
suggestion and my original format is not the only
way to give the user options for output once they
have reached the middle level drill down of the
report. Just the same, thanks a ton for taking
time to help!

Don

ok, how about a cute little drop down box with each dd value being a url to the cgi.
you're gonna have to rerun the fex to change the output format...this you know, right?
if you want the javascript code to do that,
send me a pm with your email address and i'll zip it over to you. [ I can't put left carets in this bbs.]
or...
how about this.
make a directory on your server for every single user [you already hate this, right?], use the &IBMRE_user field to name it.
Then in every fex, before you give the output over to html, filedef a pdf version, save it in pdf to this directory
FILEDEF MYPDF DISK D:\username\MYPDF.PDF
then do the same thing in excel
THEN.finally..send the output to their browser.
now..no matter WHERE your user is in the dd's,
they'll have just made and excel version and a pdf in their own secret directory. now you can have any link you like, anywhere you want, that will always go get something called MYPDF or MYEXCEL. This is very mainframe way of thinking. but hey, it might work for you.

say Don, there's a thread a few down
"WebFocus/HTML to submit reports by clicking on an image "
that is vedy vedy interesting and i think the solution offered there might be just what you want. you'ld essentially be building the output of each of your dd's to contain a form with the submit button being the pdf or excel image.
then you pass the variable parms to the repeat execution of the fex by writing HTML form code and passing your parm values as type hidden...see then you don't have to figure out how to pass that & character! very clever!