Hi,

How do I make Auto Prompting work ? The procedures which were prompting for parameters on one server are not prompting for parameters on another server(I just copied the procedures from one server to another for testing). Do I need to change any settings ? Can somebody please advise ?

Thank you very much.

Shravan

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,

Do you maybe have Pop-Ups Blocked? That has happened here before.

Prarie,

Actually that is not the case. I am trying to run the procedures from my Developer Studio. Instead of getting Auto Prompting Facility window, I get NO EDA HTML OUTPUT window with error saying

 (FOC295) A VALUE IS MISSING FOR : &PARAMETER 

Shravan,

Check your WebFOCUS client console, http://yourservername/ibi_apps/console/webfocusconsole.jsp.

Under Configuration/Parameter Prompting, make sure that IBIF_wfdeacribe is set to XMLRUN.

That setup may have been missed in your new config.

Ginny,

I set it to XMLRUN and tried. (recycled the web server too). It still does not work.(I also tried XMLPROMPT. No luck)

I had this problem two summers ago with WebSphere 5.x and WebFOCUS 7.1. It turned out to be a Java disconnect between the two and we had to upgrade to WAS6 in order to contiue.

While much time has passed and this is probably not your problem, I thought I'd mention it in case it gives you another avenue of research.

It does sound, however, like to need to open a case with IBI.

A final question: Does autoprompting work with other reports other than on that server or is it broken for everthing?

No, it does not work with other reports too. (On this server.)

It needs to be switched on in 2 places

configuration - client settings

1. managed reporting - IBIMR_prompting = XMLPrompt

2. parameter prompting -
IBIF_wfdescribe = XMLRUN

IBIF_describe_xsl_location and IBIF_describe_xsl
both need values.

Change and reboot web server and application server.

Thanks, hammo1j. It is working now. Thanks, Ginny. Thanks, Prarie.

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console/webfocusconsole.jsp.

This post helped me too!!! We were scratching our heads wondering why our prompts didn't work!! Thank you everyone

We're having the same problem with AutoPrompt not working. It USED to, but after upgrading we had issues and never looked back. Now, I'm trying to figure out how to get it working again.

I've verified the following:
1. managed reporting - IBIMR_prompting = XMLPrompt

2. parameter prompting -
IBIF_wfdescribe = XMLRUN

HAMMO1J -

You say that IBIF_describe_xsl_location and IBIF_describe_xsl both need values. In our configuration, only IBIF_describe_xsl has a value ("autoprompt.xsl"). IBIF_report_xsl_location is blank (which the Help says that blank is the default). Maybe our upgrade deleted whatever USED to be in that field back when it was working? Any way, I have NO IDEA what to put back into that field to even test it out. Can someone give me a clue?

Update....I misread the parameter name in the original post.

Our IBIF_describe_xsl_location and IBIF_describe_xsl parameters BOTH have values and it still doesn't work.

IBIF_describe_xsl_location = &IBI_HTML_DIR/javaassist/ibi/html/describe/

IBIF_describe_xsl = autoprompt.xsl
Now what?

Steve,

Is this a server procedure or an MRE procedure? If it is an MRE procedure, you have to turn the "prompt for parameters" property on for the procedure.

Darin,

Server procedures (fex files). We don't use managed reporting.