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I would like to be able to run a focexec and instead of create a report and then return it to the user, I would like to simply pull a PDF document that already exists and return that to the user instead. Does anyone know of a simple way to do this via a focexec? The PDF document is already in the APP PATH so all I need to know is how to grab it and return it to the user. This is a self-serv application. No MRE or BID. Something like: -HTMLFORM pdfdocument Thanks! Mickey
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Hey Mickey, How about using a javascript onload trigger within the HTMLFORM to change the source to the PDF document? This would require that the document was available via a complete URL and therefore reside on the Client server rather than the Reporting server. You might be able to reference it OK if was on a network share. T
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Tony, Thanks for the tip. I could do it this way but the reason why I want to pull it via a focexec and send it to the browser is because I am trying to, ahem, bypass security.  This is a self-serv(ing) application which I require a login. I use the WF COOKIE for the logon/credentials. The problem is that IIS does not recognize the WF COOKIE and prompts for a login when I try to get the PDF via a URL passed back to the browser. If the PDF is passed back via the execution of a focexec, it will avoid the IIS prompt but still be secure since the focexec won't run unless a WF COOKIE exists with valid credentials. I was looking at the HTMLFORMTYPE setting but there is no PDF setting for this environment setting. Any other ideas? Thanks! Mickey
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An old, and now little known or discussed, 'feature' of *.fex is that they can contain and execute DOS commands (as found in the "ancient" *.bat file technology). I suggest using DM to construct the fully qualified path to your *.PDF. Then use DOS launch Adobe's PDF Reader program (*.exe) with a parameter (the DM &var) pointing to the *.PDF. The code would look something like this: -SET &DOCPATH = ..... ; DOS EXEC AcroRd32.exe &DOCPATH We use a process like this to DOS COPY reports from the reports held in an agent's temp space to our own version of the WebFOCUS Reports Library. WIN/2K running WF 7.6.4 Development via DevStudio 7.6.4, MRE, TextEditor. Data is Oracle, MS-SQL. | |||
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