How to Recreate only the Prompt Page of a Report
With the release of the February 13, 2009 release of m-Power, you will notice that the prompt page of the Report template has been modified. Specifically, rarely used outputs have been removed to avoid confusion. Additionally, graphics have been added to help users easily identify their specific output:
While this will be a popular change for your end-users, this change will only affect applications compiled after the installation of this m-Power update. This document will explain how to incorporate this change into applications created prior to the installation of this update.
As you have already noticed, during compile time, you must either choose to overwrite all HTML outputs or none of them. With the below method, you can save the output page, while recreating the prompt page.
Note: This document assumes that you have not painted the prompt page. Any changes made to the prompt page will be overwritten with this procedure.
- Open your existing application in m-Painter. Once the output page is displayed, click the “Source” button. Select all the text and copy it to your local drive (Notepad is a great place to temporarily save this output).
- Go into the interface, recompile your report, and specify to overwrite the existing HTML.
- At this time, both the prompt page and the output page have been overwritten.
- Go into m-Painter. Once the output page is displayed, click the “Source” button. Select all the existing code in m-Painter and delete it (this was the code that was just created).
- Go into your notepad document, copy and paste your modified HTML into m-Painter.
- Be sure to Save your changes.
Congratulations — you have just replaced the prompt page HTML, while retaining your existing output HTML.