running clarion code from a menu

[lanmicro]

Hi Guys,

Using NT5.29, I want to update a session variable from a menu item and have the menu refresh.  (The session variable determines what the menu shows).

  if p_web.GSV( 'l:CbAskExperts' )
    l:CbAskExperts          = 0
    p_web.SSV( 'l:CbAskExperts', l:CbAskExperts )
  else
    l:CbAskExperts          = 1
    p_web.SSV( 'l:CbAskExperts', l:CbAskExperts )
  end!if

This is the code I want to run but I can't seem to find a place to add the code so that it executes only when my menu item is clicked on.

Any suggestions?

[Thys]

Haven't done this, but my best guess would be that you can't add the code in the procedure that contains the menu. It only builds the menu in html which will call the next procedure - that's it. So you should be adding the code in the procedure that is being called. You can also add a stub-procedure that is the new procedure that gets called from the menu item. And all you do in there is to run your code and then call the original target procedure.

Thys

[lanmicro]

Hi Thys,

I guess the sticking point is there is no next procedure<G>.  I am just attempting to change the state of the session.  From not showing some menu items to showing those menu items.

I've got it working to some extent by calling a form with no fields in it and pressing the save button.  What I would like is to not have to have the end user press the save button and have the form autosave.

Any ideas about that?

[charl99]

Hi Gregory,

Maybe try a normal source procedure, but pass the value p_web to it, ie

DoIt(p_web)

and in the DoIt procedure you have

ProtoType   (NetWebServerWorker)
Parameter   (p_web)

Cheers
Charl

[lanmicro]

Hi Charl,

Thanks for the suggestion, but I get a "The page cannot be found" error, when I tried it.