About Your Update Assist Application

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.

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.

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 Changing the Search Field for Tree and Combo Box Navigation and 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 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.
color_name.gif where: color Is the color scheme you selected in Step 4. name Is the user interface element.	(multiple) Are used in the user interface.
listfill.fex	Contains code to extract values for a dynamic list (for more information, see How to Use a Dynamic List to Validate a Field).

Procedure: How to Use the Search Button

If you turn on Partial-Key for any segment in your Master File, a Search button is placed in your application.

The user can click this button and enter any key field value in the box. Use $ to represent any character; * to represent multiple characters.

For example, entering 1$* retrieves all records where the key field begins with a 1 and is at least 3 characters long.

Reference: Working With Empty or New Data Sources

In tree navigation: If you have selected the Add option for any data segments that do not contain data, the Tree will display a dot for the null segment. You can right-click on the dot to enter new data for that segment.
In combo box navigation: For any data segments that do not contain data, the combo boxes display a [New] command. This option enables you to enter new records.