Hello All,

I have a page, with selection parameters at the top of the page and a larger size frame underneath to contain reports (outputs, produced by one FEX launched with the parameters provided in the URL).

When a button is pressed on parameters portion of the page, the URL is composed by adding the selected parameters to the URL used to invoke the entire page (also a FEX program).

The current page URL is obtained via window.location.href;

The new, parameter-supplied URL is used as follows: parent.frames['myframe'].location.href = myURLAndParms;


This set up works well and consistently on DevStudio (8.0.x).


However, when launched from a Dashboard (with a "load balance" and multiple application servers), it behaves differently, i.e. two possibilities:

(1) When the same application server is chosen by the "load balance", all global variables shared by the Dashboard (in !IBI.GLB.DEFAULT1, ...DEFAULT2, ... etc.) retain the values and accessible in the FEX (to set some default parameters), but nothing else happens, i.e. myURLAndParms does not seem to be launched at all (also checked by the admin on the back end, nothing got launched).

(2) When another application server is chosen by the "load balance", WebFOCUS log on screen appears (one more time, after the one needed to launch the Dashboard), the Dashboard-shared global variables do not contain any values, but the URL in myURLAndParms got launched, and the results later show in "myframe". Subsequent and different selected parameters can be used and the frame got populated with the updated URL accordingly, and also all links from the results shown on the frame work accordingly, also shown on the same frame, as intended.

Would any of you have an idea what happened here? On (1) the launch does not work, on (2) the second log in to WebFOCUS and the missing values in the global variables, which may be caused by the fact that a new session is launched, separate from where the Dashboard is.

Best regards,
-Simon

This message has been edited. Last edited by: FP Mod Chuck,

Update:

when this statement:

parent.frames['myframe'].location.href = myURLAndParms;

is replaced by this one:

window.open(myURLAndParms, "");

All works well (also when launched from WebFOCUS Dashboard), with the exception that the new FEX and its outputs are shown on a new browser window.
However, my intention is still to get all to work on just one browser window, with the results to show within the frame of and on the initial browser window.

Best regards,
-Simon

Another (good) update:

All seems to work now!

The following is the statement that does the trick:

window.open(myURLAndParms, "myframe");

Cheers,
-Simon )