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isjhb
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I have a site that will be built with the majority of code in html. It will be set up mostly in tables. There are a number of times when we would like to call one of my reports from the html file. Is this possible. If so how would I go about doing this.
 
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WebFOCUS often uses HTML files to call reports. If you run a WebFOCUS procedure and do a view source from the report you will see how to call it.
 
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When I ran the report all I got was the html that is created to create the look of the report, not the call to the webfocus report. I then tried replacing all of the table code with the following to try and call my report:

!IBI.FIL.grdiv100

The result was the 'UNRECOGNIZED COMMAND' error for every line.
 
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Tony A
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How would you like to call your report? Via a link? Use 
<a href=http://[servername]/ibi_apps/WFServlet?IBIAPP=[appname]&IBIF_ex=[fexname].....>Click for report</a>


How do you intend to pass variables to it? (Does it have any?). If you know the values then add them to the end of the URL above using &[varname]=[value] etc.

OR

Do you want to embed your report? If so use the syntax in your posting above but add the required semi colon afterwards. Do not forget case sensitivity.

!IBI.FIL.grdiv100;

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One thing to keep in mind, as far as I know, the !IBI.FIL.var command only works when the html is produced from the reporting server, via a .fex file. If this is a straight html file being processed by an html server, those commands will not work.

Webfocus reports can be called in many different ways using the url to the report. That is exactly what Tony did in the hyperlink tags. The href is set to the url used to access the report along with the parms needed to run the report. You can do the same thing by calling it with a form post or get or even using the new ajax technologies in javascript.
 
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Good point Tim, I naturally assumed (probably incorrectly) that the embedding of the report was to be achieved via an HTMLFORM. Red Face

isjhb,

If you want to have an inline report without using the WebFOCUS reporting server as mentioned by Tim above, then you could use an IFRAME with the SRC attribute set to the URL for the report execution. e.g.
<iframe src=http://[servername]/ibi_apps/WFServlet?IBIAPP=[appname]&IBIF_ex=[fexname]..... style="......">


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