Re: Panel Group help format

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom

I haven't done anything with it either yet. My comments regarding panel
groups reflect my recollections from a WebFacing presentation I attended at
IBM which as I recall it specifically mentioned UIM as being not eligible
for conversion. I took note of this as at the time I had been considering
using UIM for a minor project I was undertaking at the time.

A quick search of the web reveals a
presentation:
http://www.data3.se/Konferenser/labtour2001/WebFacing%20-%20LC.pdf
that appears to confirm this under the pros and cons

Since there is no DDS and no display file which is what the web-facing
tools convert this makes sense to me, although its a bit of a pity.

My admittedly limited use of panel groups would have led me to believe that
the vast majority would have been rather simple to convert but there you go.

Regards
Evan Harris


>I haven't had the chance to test web-facing yet, so I have to
>take your word for it... but it doesn't seem reasonable.
>
>Are you saying that standard IBM menus aren't supported under
>web-facing? or that many other IBM-supplied panels aren't
>supported -- standard help text being a major example? I'd been
>led to believe that many IBM-supplied panels were UIM; but you're
>saying none of this works under web-facing?
>
>I know previously that older offerings such as Graphical Access
>would support UIM panels as long as the ENBGUI=YES keyword value
>was specified on the :PNLGRP tag (and one or two minor details
>were avoided). This was true even when DDS display files were not
>displayed graphically in the same session.
>
>If what you're saying is true, then web-facing must be very
>different in how it sees the data stream.
>
>Tom Liotta