Hi Andrew, What about putting the HTML file in the "AR System Resource Definitions" form? A record in here and a little workflow to do a Set Fields to your View Field should do the trick.
Bullet two has a little bit of info in the 7.6.04 "Form and Application Objects Guide" on page 380 and some more on 388 (the feature was introduced in 7.5 so you have it in 7.6.03). * * ********************************************** *View fields* A view field is a display-only field that displays any type of content that a typical browser can display, including the following: * Views of AR System forms. * HTML templates registered in AR System Resource Definitions with parameters or embedded field references. These can be full HTML documents, or HTML fragments that are included in the main page. * Attachment field contents, such as HTML files, image files, and Microsoft Word documents. The common use of view field is to embed multiple forms on the view fields that are present on a container form. Embedded forms can share the user interface and workflow. You can load AR System forms as Inline forms. For more information, see “Inline Forms” on page 150. You set the initial value of a view field by setting its Text property to bind a URL or a template name. You can also set the initial value using a Set Fields active link action, optionally using theTEMPLATE() function. For more information, see “Creating view fields.” ********************************************** Let me know if that works. Jason On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Andrew Hicox <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a pretty odd set up, where hostnames of our mid-tier servers are > not static. Which is to say, from one network segment in the company it's > "hostname 1", and from another it's "hostname 2", and from still others > there is no DNS at all, and it's just an IP address (and at that -- > sometimes not even the same IP, sometimes it's the IP of a proxy). There > are also load balancers involved across multiple mid-tiers as well. > > I have a form, and in that form, I have a view field. In that view field, > I want to load up an HTML template full of help text. I'd just love to > include some graphics (screenshots will be helpful here). The only problem > is that since the template is not being served from any discernible > document root (it's loaded up in an active link set-fields template() > action), there is no relative path for image files. > > I can bypass this by putting in an fully qualified URL to the image files, > but the problem is that I can't actually KNOW what the hostname is going to > be. It might have bounced through a proxy, into a nat translation, or what > have you. > > I'd *really* like to be able to include references to BMC image objects in > my template. Intuitively, it seems like this would be the "right" way to > handle it anyhow. > > I don't see a way to do that in the documentation (though admittedly, I > may have missed it). > We're on 7.6.03. > > Anyone ever do something like this? > > -Andy > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org > attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
