Running a specific Foxfire! request from code rather than the Foxfire GUI.

[dmusicant]

I am pretty sure this is doable, but am not seeing it thumbing through the Foxfire! reference manual. I figure it looks something like DO FOXFIRE WITH ( ... a set of parameters, which would obviously include a preference set and the name of a request and its required parameters, if any).

Does anyone know how to do this?

I just wrote a utility that fixes an error in my data but the proof would be to run the Foxfire request that creates a printable report from that data. I'd like to run that request right from the utility which prompts me for info that allows it to fix the data.

 

[dmusicant]

I suppose this in the header of FFOXFIRE.PRG gives a good idea of how this can be done:

*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
**BEGIN SAMPLE**
*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
* EXAMPLE CALL
* Note: since FFOXFIRE.PRG is the top-level program in FOXFIRE.APP, a
* call of "DO FOXFIRE WITH..." is exactly the same as "DO FFOXFIRE WITH..."
*
* DO FFOXFIRE WITH "REQUEST","User","Department","FFCONFIG.PRG"
* DO FFOXFIRE WITH "REQUEST","Mary","Accounting","MYCONFIG.PRG","INVENTRY"
* DO FFOXFIRE WITH "UTILITIES","REINDEX","","FFCONFIG.PRG"
*
* For additional examples, see FFMODMNU.PRG (in the \GOODIES directory).
*
*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
**END SAMPLE**
*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

[dmusicant]

This addition to the utility accomplishes what I was after:

If ALERT("Do you want to see the tracklisting?","Yes;No")=1
lcWasdef=Full(Curd())
Set Defa To W:\Data\Fox\DJ\FF30V5
Do FFOXFIRE With "REQUEST","","","ffCONFIG.PRG","DA_PRCPL"
Set Defa To &WASDEF
Endif

The only parameter needed was the request name, probably because that request is in the default preference set.