Feature Request for 8.60 please

[MyBrainIsFull]

Hi Bruce
Due to limited customer intelligence I am putting help buttons on screens that take them to a popup mem form that explains what the screen does, like desktop apps.

But when I have parent child browses the loc:parent / p_web.gsv('_parentproc_')  is not being set as I expected, obviously due to parent child browses, see image below, sorry the screens are so big.

I am calling menu item  B_Course_Assess   the listing of assessments for a course, so I need a "new" feature that will set a session value to this automatically please, so I know what menu item was called originally.

Images 1 below is my server with its session queue on the right, it is showing the _ParentProc_ as B_Lesson_AMQ  which is the third browse on the web page.

Image 2 shows the web page, the help button is on the Browse Course / Lessons for the course / and the master list of questions for the lesson B_Lesson_AMQ  which is the last list box on the page with any content.

Thanks
Kevin

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[terryd]

Hi Kevin
How large are you explanations? If small maybe alert would be an easy alternative

[MyBrainIsFull]

HUGE - Freekin HUGE ! 

Large images,   fuzzy animals with balloons from their mouths and words drawn in crayons

My end users are accountants and this level of explanation is apparently required for them to understand the complexity of a browse and a form.

[Bruce]

Hi Kevin,

So let's talk about _pages_ as distinct from _controls_.
A page is the thing you go to from the menu.
On the page can be any number of "controls" - browses, forms and so on.

As I understand it you are wanting to add your help at the _page_ level, not the _control_ level right?

when generating the help button on the page, you want o know the URL of the page, so you can then link to the appropriate help for that page.
Am I on the right track so far?
There are a bunch of properties you can access, in the procedure _as the page is being created_.

p_web.UserURL          ! contains page name and relative path, no parameters
 p_web.RequestFileName  ! contains page name and full local path, no parameters
 p_web.PageName         ! contains page name with no path
 p_web.WholeURL         ! contains pagename and parameters (no path)
 p_web.RequestHost      ! contains the site name as used on the url.

Perhaps one of these is what you need? p_web.PageName would be my guess.

cheers
Bruce