Using Image Map, how to include output value in link

You can put the amper value in the start of the launch page and pass that chosen value with the link to the sub report.

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Ok.. I think I understand what your saying here, I think my next question really is, How?

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How is your URL being built when clicking on the image map?

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The URL is static within the HTML Code. To append to this URL seems really tricky. Looking into this issue further, looks like my approach may need to change here.

I am trying to include the onclick function within my link to retrieve the value from the dropdown box.

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OK, here's an example using an image map. I apologize for the large image - it's from wikipedia.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>New Document</TITLE>
<script language="JavaScript">
function RunReport(Province)
{
document.form1.PROVINCE.value = Province;
document.form1.submit();
}
</script>
</HEAD>

<BODY marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" style="margin: 0px;">

<form name="form1" action='/ibi_apps/WFServlet' method='get' target="ReportWindow">

<input type="hidden" name="IBIF_focexec" value="dummy1">
<input type="hidden" name="PROVINCE" value="">
<input type="radio" name="OUTPUT" value="PDF" checked>PDF<input type="radio" name="OUTPUT" value="HTML">HTML<input type="radio" name="OUTPUT" value="EXL2K">Excel<br>

<A HREF="canada.map"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Map_Canada_political-fr.png" ISMAP USEMAP="#provinces" style="border-style:none"></a>

<map id="provinces" name="provinces">
<area shape="circle" alt="" coords="167,415,94" nohref onClick="RunReport('YUKON');" title="" />
<area shape="circle" alt="" coords="529,480,134" nohref onClick="RunReport('NUNAVUT');" title="" />
<area shape="circle" alt="" coords="708,836,100" nohref onClick="RunReport('ONTARIO');" title="" />
<area shape="circle" alt="" coords="882,755,107" nohref onClick="RunReport('QUEBEC');" title="" />
<area shape="circle" alt="" coords="305,695,60" nohref onClick="RunReport('ALBERTA')" title="" />
<area shape="default" nohref="nohref" alt="" />
</map>
</form>
</BODY>
</HTML>

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Tony A

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The important item here is to have a form control with a name attribute that you will use as the amper variable name within WebFOCUS.

In his example Francis has called his OUTPUT and used radio 'button' controls to provide the User with their choices. It could as easily be a SELECT (combo box) control. -

<select name="WFFMT">
 <option value="PDF">Printable Output</option>
 <option value="HTML">Display Output</option>
 <option value="EXL2K">Datasheet Output</option>
</select>

Note: I know that the closing option tag is not strictly necessary but older versions of Netscape used to require it and old habits die hard

.

Incidently, within the GUI, if you choose USER as the output format the variable &WFFMT is used. For consistancy I use this as the variable name within all the fexes that I write that have multiple output formats.

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Thanks Francis! Using your suggestions with some minimal tweaking is getting pretty much what I need. I ran into a little confusion when trying to add additional forms but I think I'll be ok. I need to add some additional report filters (product codes). This does pose the question..I am populating the radio button/drop downs as static values, how could I populate a dropdown from a data source and still pull it into my link?

Thanks Tony as well, I tried your suggestion for a different value I need to pass.

I'll post the "final" code when I get there.

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quote:
how could I populate a dropdown from a data source and still pull it into my link

I assume you're doing this by coding it, not by using the DevStudio GUI. The easiest way to populate a dropdown list from a data source would be to create a HOLD file that contains the options and then embed the HOLD file in the HTML.

Something like this very basic example:

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
COMPUTE SELDATA/A100 =
'<OPTION VALUE="' || COUNTRY || '">' || COUNTRY  || '</OPTION>';
BY COUNTRY        NOPRINT
ON TABLE SET HOLDLIST PRINTONLY
ON TABLE HOLD AS S_LEVEL1 FORMAT ALPHA
END
-RUN

-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<select name="SELECT1" size="1">
  <option value=ALL>ALL</option>
  !IBI.FIL.S_LEVEL1;
</select>
-HTMLFORM END

Marvin, would you mind reading this posting, Friendly reminder: Please update your signatures, it will help knowing what version and platform you develop on.

Cheers,

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Poking around I was able to get a drop down to populate from a data source and integrate it into my form tag. I am still somewhat new to this..thanks for the help!

SELECT id=COMMODITY style="Z-INDEX: 5; LEFT: 200px; WIDTH: 50px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 40px" tabIndex=1 name=COMMODITY sourcetype="typeMaster" datafieldtype="VARCHAR" datatype="1" operation="NONE" addalloption="0" datafield="DXCMCD" displayfield datasource="FRSMLL1.MAS" ibic_server="EDASERVE" ibiapp_app="#" IBIMR_folder="#salesreporti">

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You're welcome.

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Another curveball thrown was they wanted to hover over states and see the % of total sales. We did this by using the HTMLFORM commands and populating the amper value (&WA_STRING) within ALT. It came out good, thanks all again.

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You may also wish to use the "title" attribute as per this article: Net Mechanic - HTML Tip: Using ALT And TITLE Attributes

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Spence

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francis,
i've tried running your example and i can not get the fex (dummy) to run. i did create a fex named dummy, when i click on a provinces YUKON the fex dummy is not found. what am i missing here?

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The fex dummy has to be in an App folder that's part of the app path.

If you're doing this in MRE, quite a few more parameters are required, like domain name, folder name, etc.

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i'm just running this in dev studio

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Yes, but where are the programs stored? DevStudio points to APP folders and MRE Domains.

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i needed to have the dummy.fex in a mre domain.
thanks for your help.

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Spence, the quickest way to determine what MRE parameters are required for a fex is to Publish it. This creates an HTML file with the required form parameters. Then you can simply copy these parameters into the Image Map HTML file. To make things easier, I'd put the Image Map HTML file in the same domain as the executed fex.

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