Hi All
I have a Multiselect Parameter set to a Control using external procedure to pass the values..
It shows only 5 values after I select more than 5..
Is there something I missed, or Composer behaving BAD.. Box "Limit Values to" is not clicked .. I also tried having Clicked with values to 100 and it still shows 5 values only

I am still using 7.6.11
Thanks

This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Kathryn Henning>,

What do you mean by :

quote:

It shows only 5 values after I select more than 5..

? Where does it only show 5, on screen ? Does your control large enough to display more than 5 on screen ?

Provide your code, it may help us helping you.

Thanks Martin

Control Box shows Location (there are more than 100 locations)
User should be able to select one or more than 1 location.
I do a -? & in the fex that gets run when you do a submit, to see what values are being passed from the Launch page.. I see for Location parameter, it only shows up to 5, when I selected more than 5..

  
-? &
-EXIT

Following is what shows whats coming from launch Page after I select 8 locations and submitting it
'000257' OR '000271' OR '000025' OR '000248' OR '000274' OR '

Control Box is Fine, it shows shows the values.. its when you select more than 5, the resulting parameter seems to run out of space..

I selected three locations and it shows three
&LOCPARAM = '000271' OR '000025' OR '000248'

What does the full URL look like? Are these values at the end of the URL and perhaps the URL is getting truncated? If you're using a form, can you set the form method to post instead of get?

It's been a while since I've worked with v7.6.11...

Displaying a variable has a limited space. You probably receive the whole thing, it's just that it's not all displayed with -? &.

Try -TYPE &yourvarname

Even that will only show a few characters but more than -? &

The better way to see if all is passed is using something like :

SET XRETRIEVAL = OFF
TABLE FILE xx
WHERE column EQ &yourvarname;
END
-EXIT

Thank you Martin.. You are correct.. I tried -TYPE and using WHERE.. both seems to display the same number of values..

Thanks Francis URL does not show much http://SeverName/ibi_apps/WFServlet

Can you give us both of your code, which is used for the control & report?

quote:

Following is what shows whats coming from launch Page after I select 8 locations and submitting it'000257' OR '000271' OR '000025' OR '000248' OR '000274' OR '

Just because your -? & statement doesn't show the entire string of the variable value, doesn't mean that it is limiting you to 5 values.

Consider this code, even though the -? & only shows the first 5 values, the underlying value of the variable is still as per -SET command.

The real problem is the limited length of display from -? & which has been like that since early days of using that command.

-SET &MULTIVAR = '''000257'' OR ''000271'' OR ''000025'' OR ''000248'' OR ''000274'' OR ''000275'' OR ''000276'' OR ''000277''';

-TYPE &MULTIVAR

-? &MULT

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