I love creative users. How boring would our lives be without them?

Did you know that if you Publish a report from the MRE and put an apostrophe in the HTML Filename (the launch page name), you will not be able to open that Domain again after you exit the MRE?

Here's some example data:
WebFOCUS 5.3.3 MRE
(apparently the scenario is the same in 7.1)
The domain name is: DEBS DOMAIN (debsdoma/debsdoma.htm)
The report group is: DEBS GROUP (#debsgroup999)
The report name is: DEBS REPORT (app/debsrepo.fex)
The published name is: Deb�s_Published_Report (deb�s_published_report.htm)

Basically, you need to edit the domain .htm page to remove the launch page name that contains the apostrophe from the .fex record.

Here�s the details (hopefully, my html references will display and not parse!):

Edit the domain HTML page. Using the example data above, here�s the path and file that what we edited:

drive:\ibi\WebFOCUS53\basedir\debsdoma\debsdoma.htm

Find the line for the .fex and launch page that contains the apostrophe. It should look like:

�<LI><A HREF='app/debsrepo.fex' MRFLAG='none' LAUNCH_PAGE='deb's_published_report.htm'>DEBS REPORT</A>�

Remove the LAUNCH_PAGE= reference, so the line now looks like this:

�<LI><A HREF='app/debsrepo.fex' MRFLAG='none'>DEBS REPORT</A>�

Save the domain.htm file and the domain should once again open in the MRE.

The report will have to be re-published, without the apostrophe in the name, of course. Also, the launch page was actually created (with the apostrophe in the name), so it should be deleted from your �Publish� folder.

Regards,
Deb

An alternative to deleting the published page would be to remove the apostrophe from the HREF in the domain html file and remove the apostrophe from the launch page filename.

Wouldn't it be nice to have MRE detect the apostrophe when the report is published and display an error message, or even better, that the domain information is not stored in an HTML file, but in some other way - XML perhaps?

Yes, that's a fine alternative.

However, we employ the Pavlov Theory of User Training here. If we make them do it over and over again, eventually they learn and we don't have to keep fixing it !

Really though, I'm just happy that we CAN fix it !

Regards,
Deb

Cute, we had an issue with conversion from 4.3.6 to 5.3.4 when a report had an quote mark in the description. Ah the joys of changed. In order to access, the administrator used an editor to fix.