We are revisiting how we display some of our content in WebPubPro, and will be using v10, I noticed some discussion regarding being able to offer display options to web users (drop down box), without the default of showing all possible web forms being used (i,e. controlling on a report by report basis which (multiple) web forms will be available.

Does anyone know if this can be done? How would those parameters be passed?

If you construct the dropdown yourself, instead of telling Webpublisher to create one, you will gain the advantage you're looking for.

Use the following javascript which will fire on the select element's onchange event:

 
/*
Used in webforms to select other forms from a dropdown.
Option values contain actual form names, so option text is flexible.
*/
function dbtw_form_change_onvalue(select_object, action, params)
   {
   	//alert("enter");
   var new_form = escape( select_object.options[select_object.selectedIndex].value );
   var i = new_form.indexOf( "+" );
   while ( i >= 0 )
   {
	   new_form = new_form.substring( 0, i ) +
	               "%2B" +
	               new_form.substring( i+1, new_form.length );
	   i = new_form.indexOf( "+" );
	}

   var form_key = "RF=";
   var n1 = params.indexOf( form_key );
   var n2 = n1 + form_key.length;
   var n3 = params.indexOf( "&", n2 );
   var n4 = params.length;
   var form_change_url = action + "?AC=CHANGE_REPORT" +
                           params.substring( 0, n2 ) +
                           new_form +
                           params.substring( n3, n4 );
	window.location.href = form_change_url;
   }

Construct your dropdown like so, paying close attention to the onchange attribute. This assumes you're using DB/Text Webpublisher in ISAPI mode. If using CS Webpublisher ISAPI, switch out '/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll' with '/ics-wpd/exec/icswppro.dll'.

<select id="mySelect" onchange="dbtw_form_change_onvalue(this, '/dbtw-wpd/exec/dbtwpub.dll', dbtw_params);">
     <option value="myFormName">Sort by Title</option>
     <option value="myOtherForm">Sort by Author</option>
</select>

Thank you. I am testing this out at the moment and do not know if I have included the script in the correct place. I am calling the script from the report header in the web form (designed in DBTextWorks). I have included that webform on my web query screen, so the the reulting form has the drop down box on it, however the script does not seem to execute.

Is that where the script should be located?

Thanks

Liz

The script, that is the dbtw_form_change_onvalue method, should be somewhere above the the select dropdown in the page hierarchy. Generally the head section of the page is preferred.