Autoprompt

The following are release considerations and product changes for Autoprompt:

• As of WebFOCUS Release 8.2, parameter-based simple filters are required to have a specified default value or a value entered by the user. If this validation improvement impacts your existing reports that use the Autoprompt facility, contact Customer Support for assistance.
• The dynamic multi-select selection list windows in the Responsive Autoprompt Interface now display an X icon in the upper-left corner, as shown in the following image. The image on this new icon indicates that clicking it will close the list and return the user to the main autoprompt interface window. This icon appears in the upper-left corner of all multi-select selection list windows, regardless of the number of choices made available in the filter.
  
• The WebFOCUS Client processing for reports with formats that have the Redirection Save Report option enabled (yes) no longer automatically appends the date and time the report is created to the report file name for requests that specify a name for the report file. As a result of this change, the WebFOCUS Client now creates a report file using the file name specified by the report request.

  The PCHOLD AS filename option specifies a report file name within a report request.

  The syntax for PCHOLD in a report request is:

  ON TABLE PCHOLD [AS filename] [FORMAT fmt]

  where:

  [AS filename]

  Specifies a name for the PCHOLD file.

  [FORMAT fmt]

  Specifies the format of the PCHOLD file. For example, XLSX.

  For more information on creating reports with the PCHOLD command, see the Creating Reports with WebFOCUS Language manual.

  For more information on the WebFOCUS Client Redirection settings, see the WebFOCUS Security and Administration manual.

  Note: Some applications, such as Microsoft Excel®, require unique names for every opened file. The following technique can be used to accommodate this requirement when a specific file name is required. It uses amper variables to obtain the time and date the report is created by the Reporting Server, specifies a file name with the date and time appended, and assigns that file name to the report file.

  -SET &TIME = STRIP(8,&TOD,'.',A8);
  -SET &FNAME = OUTPUT_ | &YYMD | _ | &TIME;
  TABLE FILE CAR
  BY CAR
  ON TABLE PCHOLD AS &FNAME FORMAT XLSX
  END