[SOLVED] WF8 Another Change -- How do I put InfoAssist into a BID Dashboard Tab?

April 01, 2014, 12:17 PM

John_Edwards

There used to be a button with the option to put InfoAssist into a BID Dashboard tab. Is that gone in WF8? I don't see how to do that anymore.

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April 11, 2014, 02:41 AM

SWES

John, could you explain me how you did this previously?

April 11, 2014, 11:13 AM

Mighty Max

I found this example for launching InfoAssist for Self-Service and modified it for launching inside the portal.
TECHNIQUE: How to launch InfoAssist in WebFOCUS 8 from an URL
The example basically signs on into the portal and launches InfoAssist.
I removed the sign on part because the fex will be launched from the portal so you should be already signed in.

Steps to create the page
1. Create a New Page
2. Make the layout of the page to be one column
3. Make the width of the column auto
4. Make the padding of the column 5px Same for All
5. Insert the fex file that launches InfoAssist
6. Make the Height of the panel auto and Hide Title Bar

Fex that launches InfoAssist

  
-* File infoassist.fex

-DEFAULT &TAPPS = 'ibisamp'

-HTMLFORM BEGIN
<html>
<head>
<title>InfoAssist</title>
<script type="text/javascript">

function callAssist() {
   TAPPS='&TAPPS';

   if(TAPPS == ' ') {
      TAPPS = '';
   }

   var rand_num = Math.floor((Math.random()*100000));
   Assist='/ibi_apps/startSessionWithGet.vxl?is508=false'+ '&' +
          'ibfsObjectHandle=000000000004' + '&' +
          'type=folder' + '&' +
          'mode=ppQB' + '&' +
          'invocationType=1' + '&' +
          'themeName=Silver' + '&' +
          'startToolInType=Report' + '&' +
          'IABasic=false' + '&' +
          'reportingServerAppPath=' + TAPPS + '&' +
          'BIDrand=' + rand_num;
   document.getElementById('cgiframe0').src = Assist;
}
</script>
<style type="text/css">
body, html
{
   margin: 0; padding: 0; height: 100%; overflow: hidden;
}
</style>
</head>
<body onload="callAssist()">
<iframe name="cgiframe0" id="cgiframe0" src="" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0"></iframe>
</body>
</html>
-HTMLFORM END

Screenshot of Portal

May 08, 2014, 09:28 AM

John_Edwards

quote:
Originally posted by SWES:
John, could you explain me how you did this previously?

You know, I'm at a client on 7.7 today and I had a devil of a time finding this a second time. I have InfoAssist in dashboards here now. I created a block, added a tree view. That provides access to the domain tree that provides InfoAssist objects. To make sure that I confused myself I named it InfoAssist so that it looked like I had pushed a button to add it like a Library or Deferred Status page.

I will need to wait until Monday when I'm back at the 8.0 client to see if that is still business as usual in version 8. I suspect it is, and I had just been too clever by half and confused myself.

That was a heck of a good question by the way, I'm glad you asked. It got me to deciphering what I had done in the past.

J.

May 08, 2014, 10:13 AM

diogopc

Thanks for the share MightyMax, I'm going to try it myself!

October 08, 2014, 03:01 PM

TomS.

So, I gave this a shot and I'm almost there. I'm getting the following error via an InfoAssist popup alert.

Code: 1103 Type: xFDMinit
Invalid Path(empty)
Code:-1 Type: xFDMinit
Invalid Path(empty)

June 09, 2015, 07:03 PM

Heidi.jensen

I ran this and I get an error.

Code: 1117 Type: xFDMinit
Item does not exist IBFS:/WFC/000000000004

Code: -1 Type: xFDMinit
Item does not exit IBFS:/WFC/000000000004