Phil

There are any number of ways to add a printer list to a Webster+ panel.

If you have the list in a variable you can simply do something like:

[list printer$][data text=(printerlist$)][/list][/b]

You can see this in the *webster/pages/reports.html file where the system loads variable fieldNames$ which was added to the form using a [hide] short code.  This variable was loaded in the [form program=*report] which runs the INIT event in *webster/report.

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Personally though I wouldn't put the printer list in the form.  No need to have the system load it on every request.  On windows you can have a fairly significant delay to get the list of printers if some of them are offline or misconfigured.

Instead I would create a drop down query for a printer$ input field and set the field as 'required'.  Whenever printer$ input is changed I would have an event that updates the user data with the last requested printer using the %webster'SetUserData() method so that all subsequent requests will have %usr.Printer$ with the last selected printer.  You can then use an [exec printer$=%usr.printer$] in your logic to initialize the value.

There are other methods such as using cookies, but personally I would suggest using the user data as that would provides consistency for the user regardless as to the browser.

Without knowing what's in the PFILEBOX program, it's impossible to tell why this isn't working all of the time.  Also, your PxPlus version looks pretty old (I'm guessing v11 or older) - you could check if the problem still happens when using a current version of PxPlus.

Thanks Susan,

Your understanding is correct.  I have tried adding a line down where all the other hidden variables are.  it looks like this:
[hide printerList$ value=""]

That didn't work, so I also tried adding printerList$ to the _fm_panel_iol$ value, also at the bottom of the page. 

Your suggestion suggests that I'm not totally ignorant, thankfully.  I think I understand this but I'm doing something wrong.

Phil

Hi Phil,

If I'm understanding this correctly - printer$ is the element in the data file being maintained and printerList$ is the delimited list of available printers (that is not an element in the data file).

I have not tried this - but it sounds like you might need to add a Hidden Variable to the form.  You can do this by adding a line using the [hide] short code to the generated html page that looks something like:

[hide printerList$ value=""]

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If you are running PxPlus 2022 or later, you should be able to also do this from within the File Maintenance Generator.  Press the Hidden Variables button on Step 6 and add an Additional Variable of printerList$.
 

Can you explain what you mean by "uploading a file in the system" ?  Are you using iNomads or the webserver or Webster+ ?  Or is it an FTP upload ?  Do you have a screenshot of the popup ?