About Your Update Assist Application

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Once you click Finish in the last Update Assist window, Update Assist generates the files needed for your application and deploys and runs the application, if specified. This section describes how to run your application from outside this window and about how Update Assist applications work.


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Procedure: How to Run Your Update Assist Application

Once you have generated an Update Assist application, you can run it any time your WebFOCUS Server is running. To do this, navigate to the URL:

http://yourmachine/approot/appname/launchname.htm

where:

yourmachine

Is the name of your machine on the network. If you are at the machine where the WebFOCUS Server is running, you can type localhost.

appname

Is the name of your project.

launchname.htm

Is the name of the HTML launch file for the Update Assist application. The default value for launchname is the name of your Master File.


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Reference: Files Generated By Update Assist

Update Assist generates the following files:

File name

Purpose

MasterFileName.htm 

where:

MasterFileName

Is the name of your Master File.

Is the launching HTML file for your application and contains user interface information.

MasterFileName_navbar.htm

Contains more user interface information and determines the appearance of the Tree, Combo Box, and Edit Box options. For more information on ways you can edit this file, see Customizing the Tree Control.

mntSignon.htm

Contains the window prompting you for your data source password (only if you selected Prompt user to enter database security information (DBA) in Step 3).

SegmentName.mnt

where:

SegmentName

Is the name of one of the segments in your Master File.

Contains the Maintain language code to display and modify the fields in that segment of the data source. You will see a Maintain procedure for each segment that you selected in Step 1.

SegmentName_validationInit.js

where:

SegmentName

Is the name of one of the segments in your Master File.

Contains the JavaScript code to automatically validate user-entered values (only if you selected Automatic validation for any field).

You will see a JavaScript file for each segment that you selected in Step 1.



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Reference: Working With Empty or New Data Sources

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