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zcbillions
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Hi all,

I'm new to WebFOCUS 82 and looking to SET static dates for the date controls in the page designer. It's defaulting to the current date, but my boss wants to default the start date to Jan 1 and the end date to Dec 31. Is this possible?

Thank you in advance!

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zcbillions

You can use the reporting server profile (edasprof.prf) to set global variables that can be used by any program. Here is some code to use..


-SET &&CYEAR=EDIT(&DATEYYMD,'9999');
-SET &&FIRST_DAY= &&CYEAR | '0101';
-SET &&LAST_DAY = &&CYEAR | '1231';


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zcbillions
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Hi Chuck,

Thank you for your response. So I tried setting a default value for a Calendar control in 8203 in the .fex. It's showing the default value when I right click on the drop down but it's still just displaying the current date.

I've attached a screenshot of what I'm referring to.



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It looks like the image above is a broken link? If it is, right click on it to view it in a different tab. I uploaded it using IMGUR.

Thanks!


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So I set the global variables in the server profile and then created this fex and use it to populate the calendar control..


DEFINE FILE WF_RETAIL_TIME
FIRST_DAY/YYMD=&&FIRST_DAY;
LAST_DAY/YYMD=&&LAST_DAY;
END
TABLE FILE WF_RETAIL_TIME
BY FIRST_DAY
BY LAST_DAY
BY WF_RETAIL_TIME.WF_RETAIL_TIME.TIME_DATE
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 1;
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT XML
END

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So I figured it out Chuck.

It is actually filtering the dates correctly on the page, but it's not displaying the dates correctly in the Calendar control dropdown. That's pretty confusing to the user.

Can you recreate this issue or is it displaying the correct dates correctly in your page?

Thanks!


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ZCbillions

It is displaying them properly. Insure you are using the explict (requests panel) and the custom fex to populate the calendar control.


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