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Beena
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Hi,
The default tab on my dashboard has a launch page that accepts input parameters. Based on the input parameters, the reports on my other tabs need to be populated. My question is how do I make the input parameters available to the various fex's on the other tabs? Please help me out with your suggestions.

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Darin Lee
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They don't work that way. You can set up multiple "panels" or output frames so multiple reports are run together and displayed, each in their own window, but each tab is independently controlled and separate fexes for each tab are run in their own sessions, so there is no passing of parameters between the procedures in separate tabs.


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Syed
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Few things you could do:
1. Create a tabbed report - the HTML should have various tabs which will allow passing of parameters to other fexes. In which case, you'll probably not need to use Dashboard!
2. Provide hyperlinks to other reports from the launchpage (or a droplist for that matter).

Hope this helps!

Syed


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Francis Mariani
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If you truly want to access the parameters selected in one tab on another tab, then one of the easiest ways would be to save the parameters in a cookie which the other tabs would read.

The other way would be to use JavaScript to access the form objects by referring to the frame name because the Dashboard view is created using frames. Unfortunately, because each tab is a frame, and each block within a tab is a frame it appears to be quite complicated addressing the correct tab. I haven't been able to figure out if it's 'top.window.frames' or 'top.framename.an_launch' or 'top.frames.framename.name' or 'top.window.frames.framename.name' or ...


Francis


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Beena
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Hi Everyone,
Thank you very much for all your responses. Truly appreciate it. For now, I am going to go ahead with Francis's idea of storing the parameters in a cookie.


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Francis Mariani
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From any tab in a Dashboard View, you can access the form objects in the first tab with code like this:
alert(top.contentFrame.frames[0].frames[1].document.forms[0].REGION.value);

contentFrame is the second frame in the main frameset of a dashboard view (this can be determined by selecting Internet Explorer > View > Source (not by right-click > View Source).

frames[0] is the first tab.

frames[1] is the first block within the tab. frames[0] at this lower level is the block name.


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