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John_Edwards
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I have a Maintain that I'd like to make a call out to a focexec to gather data. I want something like this --

TABLE FILE XXX
PRINT FIELD_1 NOPRINT
COMPUTE X/A20 = '&IBIMR_user'
ON TABLE PCHOLD
END

I realize I can get the username in the Maintain directly, but the example above is a simplified example, not what I'm actually looking to do.

My fex unit runs correctly from Dev Studio. When I call it from Maintain it bombs, showing the "(FOC03690) Called Proc, MAINTAIN_SITE_PROFILE, wants 0 Output parms but was called w/ 1" that invariably means that the routine is throwing an error.

I tried to work around the issue with dialog manager commands but they didn't work either. I've coded a dozen approaches to the problem that work correctly in WF, but the minute I EXEC a call to it in Maintain it crashes. The amper-variable seems to be the common denominator.

Here's the question -- Can I access environment amper-variables in a focexec called by Maintain? The minute I pull &IBIMR_user out of the code all runs correctly.

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John_Edwards
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And a follow-up -- do focexecs called from Maintain go through the site_profile?



 
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John
The easiest way to debug an EXECd procedure is to do the following:
1) At the top of your Focexec add the line -SET &ECHO='ALL';
2) At the bottom add the line -RUN

In Maintain, on your form:
3) place an HTMLTable populated by FOCMSG.MSG

When you run, ALL of the output from the Focexec appears in the HTMLTable so you can see what's going on.

The Focexec SHOULD run through the edasprof and populate the variables. However, the EXEC'd procedure may be pre-compiled and that could be an issue for the & variables.

Mark
 
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John_Edwards
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"A VALUE IS MISSING FOR: &IBIMR_user"

I haven't done anything to the routine to make it precompiled, so I don't know how to proceed.



 
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John
It seems that variables like IBIC_user and IBIMR_user are not available to a procedure that is EXEC'd from a parent Maintain. Variables like &DATE to work.

In order to get the value into the Focexec you would have to retrieve it in the Maintain and pass it into the EXEC'd procedure like:

COMPUTE MRUSER/A30 = IWC.GetAppCGIValue("IBIMR_user")
exec MRUser2 from MRUSER

Mark
 
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John_Edwards
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Thanks for following up Mark. Appreciate the extra effort.



 
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