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Jeff Elam
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I have a prompt in Resource Layout Painter that asks the user to select a date. I'd like to set a default value for that prompt based on a value in the database, but want the user to be able to enter a different value. All of the values that a user might enter are not in my database, so I can't build a list of all possible values for the user to choose between. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
 
Posts: 44 | Location: St. Louis | Registered: September 17, 2004Report This Post
<JG>
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A way to do this is to have the HTM file that requests the parameters called by another fex and populate the required edit box as a variable.

Your calling fex would look something like

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT COUNTRY
WHERE COUNTRY EQ 'ENGLAND'
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
ON TABLE SAVE
END
-RUN
-READ SAVE &COUNTRY.A10.
-HTMLFORM BEGIN
-INCLUDE report1.htm
-HTMLFORM END

In your .fex change the
-HTMLFORM report1

To
-INCLUDE report1.htm
-HTMLFORM END

This makes sure that the values that appear in the selection box for rerunning are populated with the last value entered by the user.

Your htm (report1.htm) should use a text box for input (elementtype="edit") change the �value= � entry to be �value=�&variable.EVAL��

  <br /><br />On the line <BODY onload=OnLoad() ��<br />Change it to <BODY <br />For some reason the OnLoad() causes some very peculiar behavior in IE, works fine in netscape.
 
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