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hammo1j
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...that they would care to share.

eg passing % as wildcard in URL needs to be replaced with %25


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Francis Mariani
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John, may I ask in what context you'd like this functionality?

Is it a drill-down generated by a WebFOCUS Style-sheet declaration or by a DEFINE or COMPUTE?

One suggestion that might work, depending on how this URL is generated, is to call a JavaScript function that creates the URL, using escape() to encode the %...


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hammo1j
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Francis

It was building up a URL 
/ibi_apps/WFServlet?IBIF_ex=report¶m=U%
in DM. Solved the problem using STRREP but thought someone might have done something a bit more classy that would take account of other characters that might need replacing


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Francis Mariani
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I would call a JS function, something like:

COMPUTE XXX/A200 = 'RunURL("/ibi_apps/WFServlet?IBIF_ex=report¶m=U%");';

...

<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
function RunURL(myURL)
{
self.location.href = escape(myURL);
}
</script>


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hammo1j
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Cheers Francis

I am guessing there should be something round the RunURL in the compute statement to identify the myURL as a javascript routine.

Ne est ce pas?


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Francis Mariani
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I apologize that my code snippet wasn't accurate.

The whole thing would look something like this:

-SET &ECHO=ON;

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
SALES

COMPUTE LINK1/A200 = 
  '<input type=button value="Click me" onClick="RunURL(''/ibi_apps/WFServlet?IBIF_ex=car1'',''&|param=U%'');">';

COMPUTE LINK2/A10 = 'Click me';
BY CAR

ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=LINK2, JAVASCRIPT=RunURL('/ibi_apps/WFServlet?IBIF_ex=car1' '&|param=U%'), $
ENDSTYLE

ON TABLE HOLD AS H001 FORMAT HTMTABLE
END
-RUN

-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
function RunURL(myURL, myParms)
{
alert(myURL + myParms);
self.location.href = myURL + escape(myParms);
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
!IBI.FIL.H001;
</body>
-HTMLFORM END


I've illustrated two ways of linking to the drill-down fex, one through a compute and one via a style-sheet declaration.

I hope this helps.


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<Shyam L>
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Francis,
Cud u pls explain what "U%" and escape function does in your code?

Thanks,
Shyam L
 
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