>> Step 1 - Have a launch page to select various options and the report to run (currently a radio-button list of 13 reports to choose from) ; and when the Submit is hit, the defered notification pops-up.
>> Step 2 - A common program is now run deferred, to -SET other variables and determine which fex to run next, based on the report selection (1 to 13).
>> Step 3 - The appropriate report fex is executed.

As the launch page always calls this common fex in Step-2, the defered window name is the same for all the 13 reports. You have to open each report to see which one it is, if you have submitted a bunch in succession.
Is there anyway I can dynamically assign the display name in the deferred window ? Something like
-SET &IBIMR_defname='fex32'; ??

Thank you all for your input.
Sandeep Mamidenna

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Unless someone has a trick up their sleeve, there's no way to change the deferred report name.

I would imagine that by now someone has asked for a new feature to address this.

You could execute 13 different programs that -INCLUDE the common code...

Thx for your input as always Francis.
If push comes to shove, I was planning on doing exactly that or the other way around - Make the common program run online and in-turn call 13 dummy programs that are automatically deferred.

I would also think that someone would have put in an NFR for this by now.

Kerry :
Please advise if IBI has heard of such a request before.

Thank you,
Sandeep Mamidenna

Hi all,

I will check with internal people and will keep you all posted on what I hear.

Thanks to Sandeep and Francis' input on this one.

Cheers,

Kerry

Hi all,

FYI, heard from internal: yes, we do have such New Feature Requests from several customer.

Cheers,

Kerry

quote:

we do have such New Feature Requests from several customer

- that was May 2007. Any update?

Hi all,

FYI, from internals (as always ): There are several new features being considered for Deferred that appear targeted for sometime after the initial WF 8.0 release. Francis also has a case opened regarding this request and the case is currently in research.

Cheers,

Kerry

The latest news is

quote:

This is a feature request currently under divisional review. It is targeted for a future 8.x release but no exact ETA or release has been assigned at this time.

Very sad.

I believe I was able to accomplish what you are looking for. Though i don't know if it will be worth the effort. You have to have all the different fexes with a -INCLUDE in it pointing to your common program.

I have an html page on MRE which has a dropdown from which you can select a report to run and enter parameters for it. This will then run a fex called generate_reports which will decide which parameters to pass along with which fex to run based on a value that is passed from the dropdown that I have. Before, no matter what you selected from the dropdown, it always showed generate_reports on the deferred status page. Now I have it showing the name of the report that was selected from the dropdown.

I am using this javascript function:

 function setReport(reqid, ibif_ex, ibimr_folder){
	if(myXmlRoot || loadXmlDoc()){
		var pattern = "//requests/request[@requestid='" + reqid + "']";
		var requestNode = getSingleNode(myXmlRoot, pattern);
		if (requestNode){
			requestNode.setAttribute("ibif_ex", ibif_ex);
			requestNode.setAttribute("IBIMR_folder", ibimr_folder);
		}
	}
}

I was able to modify the function that someone gave me to get it to work in my situation.

button23 is the deferred button on my html page.

 function button23_onclick(ctrl) {
// TODO: Add your event handler code here
var rpt = document.getElementById("REPORT_NAME");
var fex_name = rpt.value;
var fex_prepend = "app/";
var fex_path = fex_prepend.concat(fex_name);
setReport(10, fex_path, "#authorizatio");
OnExecute(ctrl)
} 

The request id is 10 for my deferred button. On the MRE side, I had to create a fex for each of the reports that were in the dropdown. All I have in these fexes is a -INCLUDE GENERATE_REPORTS and the actual fexes are -INCLUDED from generate_reports and are located on the reporting server. generate_reports also handles all the parameters that are being passed in my situation.

So with this, it passes a different fex name depending on which report is being selected from the dropdown. So based on that, it will show the appropriate fex instead of all of the reports saying generate_reports on the deferred status page.

There probably is a better way of doing this, but this worked for me.

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