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David Briars
Master
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Greetings,

I have created a column of an Active Report that consists of a checkbox.

When the user selects a checkbox on page one of the report, and then goes to the next page, the selection from page 1 goes away.

How can I get an AHTML report to respect the setting of a checkbox?

Here is my code running against the sample GGPRODS database:

  
APP PREPENDPATH IBISAMP
-*
DEFINE FILE GGPRODS
 CHK_BOX/A100 = '<input type="checkbox" value="CBX' || PRODUCT_ID || '">';
END
-*
TABLE FILE GGPRODS
PRINT PRODUCT_ID
      PRODUCT_DESCRIPTION
      CHK_BOX
ON TABLE HOLD AS ACTREPT FORMAT AHTML
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
-* Set lines per page, and location of paging object.   
 TYPE=REPORT, 
      LINES-PER-PAGE=5,
	  OBJECT=STATUS-AREA, PAGE-LOCATION=BOTTOM, JUSTIFY=CENTER,$
ENDSTYLE
END
-RUN
-*
-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<html>
<head>
<title>Multi Checkboxes</title>
<script language=javascript>
function CheckCheckboxes(){
    var elLength = document.MyForm.elements.length;

    for (i=0; i<elLength; i++)
    {
        var type = MyForm.elements[i].type;
        var position = MyForm.elements[i].value.indexOf("CBX");
		var Product_Id = MyForm.elements[i].value.substr(3,4);
        if (type=="checkbox" && MyForm.elements[i].checked && position >= 0){
//          alert("Form element in position " + i + " is of type checkbox and is checked.");
//          alert(MyForm.elements[i].value);
            alert(Product_Id);
        }
        else if (type=="checkbox") {
//          alert("Form element in position " + i + " is of type checkbox and is not checked.");
        }
        else {
        }
    }
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="MyForm" method="get" action="/ibi_apps/WFServlet">
<!-- Common variables -->
<!-- This turns off amper autoprompting -->
<input type=hidden name="WF_DESCRIBE" id="WF_DESCRIBE" value="OFF">
<!-- this should avoid caching problems -->
<input type=hidden name="IBIMR_random" id="IBIMR_random" value=0>
!IBI.FIL.ACTREPT;
-*
<input id=btn_submit style="position:relative; top:10px; left:70px; width:38px; height:22px;
 background-color:#f0f5ff; background-image:url(/ibi_html/javaassist/ibi/html/describe/run16.gif);"
 type="button" value=" " onClick="CheckCheckboxes();">
<input id=btn_reset style="position:relative; top:10px; left:80px; width:38px; height:22px;
 background-color:#f0f5ff; background-image:url(/ibi_html/javaassist/ibi/html/describe/reset.gif);"
 type="reset" value=" ">
-*
</form>
</body>
</html>
-HTMLFORM END


When my user selects Product Code B141, and goes to page two, and then clicks run, they do not see B141 appear in the alert, because the checkbox setting is no longer in effect.

Thank you for your consideration.

Dave

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Alan B
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Dave

The reason that the checkbox value reverts is that the data in an AHTML report is held in an array. When you change page the data is refreshed from the array.

Th only way you could keep the value is to change that array, and within AHTML this is almost a black art. There are no published functions for AHTML.


Alan.
WF 7.705/8.007
 
Posts: 1451 | Location: Portugal | Registered: February 07, 2007Report This Post
David Briars
Master
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Thank you Alan.

I've also heard back from IB, regarding a case I opened on this question. IB, shared with me that to control the checkboxes, we would be getting into the proprietary sections of the JavaScript, which are not customizable.

I move that this thread be marked [CLOSED].




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