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Lloyd
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I am having a problem where I coded A drill down, which works for the most part. The problem is for certain users, the drill down URl that is returned begins as file://XXXX instead of http://XXXX. The later is the correct way for the URL to appear and launches the report as expected. The former is incosistant with the URL format and returns an error. I would not call this random but it is correct for some users and not others. Any body know how to fix this?

PS. this wouldn't be mime-type problem would it?


Lloyd Prendergast
Michael Kors (USA), Inc.
Phone: 201-453-5076
Fax: 646-354-4776
Lloyd.Prendergast@Michaelkors.com


WebFOCUS 523
WebFOCUS 7.6
WebFOCUS 7.7

Windows Server 2005
Windows Server 2008

Iseries V5R3M0
Iseries V5R5M0
Iseries V6R1M0
 
Posts: 157 | Location: Secaucus, NJ | Registered: May 21, 2004Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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When you say it's happening for some users, do you mean it's happening on some user's workstations?

Are you drilling down to a WebFOCUS program or an HTML file or some other kind of file?

How is the drilldown link being created?

Is this in MRE or a self-service application?


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
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Lloyd
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Sorry I should have been more detailed....

It is a PDF report drilling into another PDF report. I have discovered that it is an Acrobat 7.0 problem.

Does anyone know a workaround for drilling down in acrobat 7.0?


Lloyd Prendergast
Michael Kors (USA), Inc.
Phone: 201-453-5076
Fax: 646-354-4776
Lloyd.Prendergast@Michaelkors.com


WebFOCUS 523
WebFOCUS 7.6
WebFOCUS 7.7

Windows Server 2005
Windows Server 2008

Iseries V5R3M0
Iseries V5R5M0
Iseries V6R1M0
 
Posts: 157 | Location: Secaucus, NJ | Registered: May 21, 2004Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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Looks like a bug in WebFOCUS:

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT PDF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=COUNTRY, FOCEXEC=SSS (COUNTRY=COUNTRY), $
ENDSTYLE
END

Doesn't generate the correct URL for the drilldown


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
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Lloyd
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Yes, that is the isssue. BUT, I beleive it is an Acrobat 7.0 that has the 'BUG'(feature maybe?), because the same code(including your test code) that fails on my machine runs fine on a machine with Acrobat ver. 6.0.

Any one know a work around?


Lloyd Prendergast
Michael Kors (USA), Inc.
Phone: 201-453-5076
Fax: 646-354-4776
Lloyd.Prendergast@Michaelkors.com


WebFOCUS 523
WebFOCUS 7.6
WebFOCUS 7.7

Windows Server 2005
Windows Server 2008

Iseries V5R3M0
Iseries V5R5M0
Iseries V6R1M0
 
Posts: 157 | Location: Secaucus, NJ | Registered: May 21, 2004Report This Post
drew billingslea
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We use WF 5.2.5 with Acrobat 7 and we had to add

-* make sure all drill-downs get the full URL
-*
SET FOCEXURL=http:///ibi_apps/WFServlet

where you replace with whatever your URL is for that

and it correct that issue.


WF 7.6.6 Linux, FOCUS 7.8 zOS
 
Posts: 46 | Location: San Francisco, California | Registered: April 14, 2003Report This Post
drew billingslea
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sorry - looked like a tag to the software:

-* make sure all drill-downs get the full URL
-*
SET FOCEXURL=http://www.compname.com/ibi_apps/WFServlet

where www.compname.com is whatever your URL is for that


WF 7.6.6 Linux, FOCUS 7.8 zOS
 
Posts: 46 | Location: San Francisco, California | Registered: April 14, 2003Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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quote:
SET FOCEXURL=http://www.compname.com/ibi_apps/WFServlet


Drew, thank you for that piece of information.


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
Posts: 10577 | Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Registered: April 27, 2005Report This Post
Lloyd
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Problem Solved.....

It is actually an Acrobat Bug. Upgrade to version 7.0.8 and the problem goes away.


Lloyd Prendergast
Michael Kors (USA), Inc.
Phone: 201-453-5076
Fax: 646-354-4776
Lloyd.Prendergast@Michaelkors.com


WebFOCUS 523
WebFOCUS 7.6
WebFOCUS 7.7

Windows Server 2005
Windows Server 2008

Iseries V5R3M0
Iseries V5R5M0
Iseries V6R1M0
 
Posts: 157 | Location: Secaucus, NJ | Registered: May 21, 2004Report This Post
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