RE: URL Viewing/Printing from native AS/400 code -- WEB400

If you have a "current" version of client access installed you can double
click on a url in the 5250 screen and it will open that url. I believe it
looks for HTTP:// to indicate that something is a url. That would at least
save you the strpccpmd stuff today.

As for controlling the open from webfacing, since you'd then be looking at
the screen from within a web browser you'd need to include the anchor tags
to make the url clickable. I'm not sure if you can use webfacing to
"rewrite" the screen enough that you can make the link clickable, I'd guess
you can. Say you have a field that contains http://www.iseriesnation.com
you'd need to show that field on the screen as:

<A HREF='http://www.iseriesnation.com'
target='_top'>http://www.iseriesnation.com</A>

On the webfaced screen to make the link clickable. The "Target" keyword
forces the window to open in a new browser page.

-Walden

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Walden H Leverich III
President
Tech Software
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WaldenL@TechSoftInc.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: dcolford@pathix.com [mailto:dcolford@pathix.com]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 08:58
To: web400@midrange.com
Subject: [WEB400] URL Viewing/Printing from native AS/400 code



Hi

We are starting to add URL link indexes/tables to our data base design and
right now we are using the STRPCO and STRPCCMD (eg. STRPCCMD
'HTTP://www.cnn.com') combo to fire off the URL from a PC connected with
client access. There are a couple of problems with using this

1. STRPCO will go 'bye bye' soon

2. When we webface the command will not be able to fire from a browser

3. Right now the STRPCCMD 'HTTP://.... ' launch uses what ever window is
open

As you can guess I am looking for a new method to do this. It should be able
to

1. Open a new browser window for URL viewing... And optionally I would like
to have multiple view windows going (if the user wants to see multiple URL's
at once)

2. Be able to be invoked from a browser and independent of client access

3. Ideally - and I do mean Ideally - Have a URL browser print function
instead of a browser view function fire up. This will allow them to print
multiple selected documents at once

Anyone have an API or two or some AS/400 run  Java code that does this ??


Thank you all


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