My first experiment with the Web stuff is not going well…

All I would like to do is display a .htm file. Not a big ask!

I have :-

1. Created a form with a text control

2. Created a quick event (Submit) for the text control

  a) I chose 'Publish Document' (the manual says to use the quick         event option 'Read the Document' but I don't have that option.  I         presume I am using a later version of OI (3.6) than the manual as         I have more options than the manual shows.

  b) changed the parameters as follows

      'DOC_ID=OV_ABS, DOC_TYPE=DOC*HTML'

      where OV_ABS is the name of a new entity which I created         which points to the name of the HTML file ABS.HTM

3. Chose HTML Publishing and compiled my form

4. and used the View HTML Page to test my form

5. the form comes up with my text underlined and looking good

6. but ignores me when I click on it???

I must be doing something silly?

I have double checked the path to the file ABS.HTM

I can bring up ABS.HTM by itself

OK - just a couple of thingd to check….

You are running a personal Web Server or if not you have at least got access to a web server?

You have copied OICGI to the web server's CGI-BIN as OICGI.EXE?

You have invoked it correctly in your URL?

We did this as a demo at a client's yesterday using Microsofts's latest PWS - which cunningly omits any reference to CGI in favout of ASP in the online help, and it took a whole 5 minutes to get working.

the next SENL (due in a week or so) will have an article on using the Web connectivity features.

Regards

amcauley@sprezzatura.com

Sprezzatura Ltd

World Leaders in all things RevSoft

Thanks for reply

We do have access to a server. At this stage we are just trying to develop our web site off line and test it before sending it to the Web Server. I have been able to test the hypertext link facility (to the Revelation Web site) and hypertext link to an Email address as per the instructions in Chaper 17 Internet Publishing (page 624). That works fine.

The next step for our web site is to simply display another HTML page, and this is what is not working.

All the testing has simply been done within OI in the HTML Publishing option of the Form Designer. Do I need to copy OICGI anywhere at this early stage of development?

Thanks for your help.

Are you putting the Submit event on the button or form? From your previous description it sounds as though you're putting the submit event on the text control which I don't think will work.

If this is not the case could you post the parameters you've put in the Submit quick event here?

OICGI should usually be copied to your cgi-bin directory on the server. Depending on teh server you may have to rename it to OICGI.EXE

cpates@sprezzatura.com

Sprezzatura Ltd

World Leaders in all things RevSoft

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