Re: Witango-Talk: a random question

2002-09-25 Thread Garth Penglase
The suggestions put forward by the others have been very useful - I use branch actions myself, however I find that using a javascript to inhibit double submissions on a form is a good way to stop this thing happening, at least for the 97% of people that javascript enabled browsers who try to s

RE: Witango-Talk: a random question

2002-09-25 Thread Simon Boddy
Hi list, To sumarise, the original question here was... What happens when a user initiates a second request from a page before the first request has been executed and page returned. Bill Conlon's reply proposed a mechanism for blocking the execution of the second request. This sounds fine and dand

Witango-Talk: Arrays of scope domain don't behave

2002-09-25 Thread Wayne Irvine
Does anyone want to make comment on this? I'm sure this has been covered and I was playing hookey that day but I have just discovered that arrays of scope 'domain' don't seem to want to behave. If I assign an array in one domain it can be seen in ano

Witango-Talk: Tango Editors

2002-09-25 Thread Wayne Irvine
My Tango2000 editor is a buggy piece of software. On OS9 you can only drap datasources from the workspace when it is in the background (off focus??) and dragging action groups between TAFs doesn't work. Is there an editor (WiTango 4.5 or 5b) that will work satisfactorily with Tango 2000 server?

RE: Witango-Talk: Tango Editors

2002-09-25 Thread Steve Smith
I've been using Windows 4.5 successfully to edit sites running under a Tango2000 App Server. However that does not help you as there was no Mac release of the 4.5 Editor. I have also been using a Beta Editor to edit some sites that are non-production (i.e. demo sites that I've developed). The only

RE: Witango-Talk: Arrays of scope domain don't behave

2002-09-25 Thread Jon Grieve
Wayne, I would say this is likely to be a problem with the Web Server, rather than Tango. I'm a Windows-kinda-guy, so can't comment on any aspect of WebStar... Here's how it *should* work... On Windows, the way in which domain-scope variables is handled is partly due to the Web Server (I use I

RE: Witango-Talk: a random question

2002-09-25 Thread Garth Penglase
The javascript approach resolves that problem - the first request goes through because it is received and processed by the tango server, the second attempt is halted at the client end, so the results of the first request come back as planned. Garth At 10:01 25/09/02, you wrote: >Hi list, >To

Re: Witango-Talk: Tango Editors

2002-09-25 Thread Wayne Irvine
> there was no Mac release of the 4.5 Editor. Ahh, that explains it. > I have also been using a Beta Editor to edit some > sites that are non-production (i.e. demo sites that I've developed). I used the beta under OSX today to edit some T2000 for FileMaker TAFs and it worked fine. Even the FMP

RE: Witango-Talk: Tango Editors

2002-09-25 Thread Steve Smith
I hope that you didn't misunderstand me, it was only the project files (.tep) that I wasn't able to open with the old Editor after I'd opened them with the new Editor. Regular TAF and TCF files didn't have the same problem. Hope this helps, Steve Smith Skadt Information Solutions Office: (519)

RE: Witango-Talk: Arrays of scope domain don't behave

2002-09-25 Thread Garth Penglase
The default domain key in Tango for the Mac is the base URL or IP address (retrieved using <@CGIPARAM SERVER_NAME>. So www.mydomain.com/my.taf will return a different variable of the same name than 203.111.222.333/my.taf. It is possible to set a different value for the domain key in the domain

Re: Witango-Talk: a little OT - images in a drop down select box

2002-09-25 Thread Jason Pamental
Chris, You could do this in flash; the recent versions allow you to load jpeg's dynamically at run-time, so you could pass in the filenames, etc. that you need for the drop-down via URL arguments or loading XML. it wouldn't be their standard interface widgets that ship with Flash MX, but

Re: Witango-Talk: a random question

2002-09-25 Thread John McGowan
I'm with you Simon... I was wondering where this thread was going... I decided to do a little test for myself, and fortunately, (or unfortunately depending on how you want it to behave) Robert Sfeir's first response was incorrect. A second taf request will not interrupt the first taf request.

Re: Witango-Talk: Tango Editors

2002-09-25 Thread Wayne Irvine
> I hope that you didn't misunderstand me, it was only the project files > (.tep) that I wasn't able to open with the old Editor after I'd opened them > with the new Editor. Regular TAF and TCF files didn't have the same problem. Phew, I assumed you meant any files and thought I'd be doing some r

Re: Witango-Talk: Arrays of scope domain don't behave

2002-09-25 Thread Wayne Irvine
Thanks for the help. It is appreciated. > It is possible to set a different value for the domain key in the > domainScopeKey system variable - see how to do this in the Meta Tags & > Config Variables pdf. It's currently set to '<@CIPHER action=hash str=<@LOWER <@DOMAIN>>>'. I have no idea what t

Re: Witango-Talk: Arrays of scope domain don't behave

2002-09-25 Thread Wayne Irvine
> The default domain key in Tango for the Mac is the base URL or IP address > (retrieved using <@CGIPARAM SERVER_NAME>. Ahhh, both <@CGIPARAM SERVER_NAME> and <@DOMAIN> return the IP address rather than the host name: http://www.brightspark.net.au/vhosttest.taf So I guess it's a WebStar/Welcom

Witango-Talk: It happened again???

2002-09-25 Thread Tom Carr
No-one responded to my first post on this matter. I am very curious as to why this is happening. For two days in a row now, my tango2000 servers have had their licensece numbers altered. I edit the preference file to put in thhe license number and all is better. Then sometime later, I see the "th

RE: Witango-Talk: It happened again???

2002-09-25 Thread Alexander Zatko
I think that you have to turn off the Tango Server service when editing the .ini file, or your manual edits will be overwriten when you restart it. A. > -Original Message- > From: Tom Carr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 10:32 AM > To: Multiple recipients

RE: Witango-Talk: It happened again???

2002-09-25 Thread Steve Smith
Are you shutting down your Tango server before you edit the preference file? As a precaution, do these steps in the following order: Shut down your Tango server Shut down your Web server Open your Tango preferences file Enter the licence number Save the preferences file Restart your Web and Tango

Witango-Talk: use java class

2002-09-25 Thread Sophie Wang
Hi, Thank you for adding me to the witango talk list. I am new to the witango server. Now the witango server we have is version 4.5, and version 5 will be used in couple of days. My background is java tech. I would like to know 1. if witango server has the capability to work with java applicati

RE: Witango-Talk: It happened again???

2002-09-25 Thread Ben Johansen
Hi, Make a backup of your witango.ini file and change your server password. You might have your config.taf exposed to the internet. The other possibility is the time bomb, but the only one that can answer that are With Enterprises or Pervasive. Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com Authorized W

RE: Witango-Talk: a little OT - images in a drop down select box

2002-09-25 Thread John Hollister
Can be done with JS, making a DIV with ID and the image contain with in the DIV, using an overflow for the scrolling and innerHTML to build the Drop down for(i=0;i<=selectbox.length-1;i++) { document.getElementById("dropdowndiv").innerHTML += "" + selectb

Witango-Talk: Client error Server Refused connection

2002-09-25 Thread Dan Stein
I am doing an action with two consecutive for loops that updates a column matching the 14th column of a user scope array. I am getting the above message which I have not seen before. -- Dan Stein Digital Software Solutions 799 Evergreen Circle Telford PA 18969 Land: 215-799-0192 Mobile: 610-25

RE: Witango-Talk: It happened again???

2002-09-25 Thread Prasad Ramalingam
just some curiosity!Is some one changing your License number through the web administration portal! It might be better to have the config.taf filed restricted or you could change the config password!its possible thanx Prasad R -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Witango-Talk: Loop Update from array

2002-09-25 Thread Dan Stein
I want to do an update to a table by looping through an array I think I have the syntax wrong in the update criteria The value I'm using is <@VAR NAME=user$staff_records[@@local$loop_counter,14]> The update pretty much just hangs and I get a server refused connection message after a long wait.

Re: Witango-Talk: use java class

2002-09-25 Thread John McGowan
Sophie, Not many people use the "java server" mentioned in the documentation. We are using it here at our company, but it is in no way what you would consider an application server. I suggest reading the documentation completely, and you will understand the purpose of the JAS "Java Action Serve

Re: Witango-Talk: It happened again???

2002-09-25 Thread Tom Carr
Thx for all your suggestions. This is a mystery. Guess what? There was no password! what? Exactly what I said. What the h@## happened to the password? I will have to watch the logs very very carefully to see what exactly is going on. If someone is accessing the config.taf file or what? I am throw

Witango-Talk: Arrays of scope domain (on Mac) don't behave - here's the answer

2002-09-25 Thread ServerSmiths Tango Development
on 9/25/02 7:20 AM, Wayne Irvine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ahhh, both <@CGIPARAM SERVER_NAME> and <@DOMAIN> return the IP address > rather than the host name: > > http://www.brightspark.net.au/vhosttest.taf > > So I guess it's a WebStar/Welcome problem. > I guess this will have to be pos

Re: Witango-Talk: It happened again???

2002-09-25 Thread Robert Sfeir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If the password is not there the config.taf file will NOT load. This is a safety valve. R On Wednesday, September 25, 2002, at 02:52 PM, Tom Carr wrote: > Thx for all your suggestions. > > This is a mystery. Guess what? There was no passw

Re: Witango-Talk: use java class

2002-09-25 Thread Sophie Wang
Hi John, Thank you for the message. I try to extend the functionality of the tengo2000 by using java class. This is what I have done that I have the problem: In environment variable for both, my pc and the server, classpath has the full path for beanhandler.jar. When I right click on the Jav

Witango-Talk: IIS and SSL

2002-09-25 Thread Steve Smith
Has anyone been able to find the trick to setting up both an SSL and a non-SSL server on the same IIS machine under Windows 2000 Server? All I want to do is to set up a redirect on the non-SSL side of http://www.myserver.com to redirect it to https://www.myserver.com. I don't have two nic cards s

Witango-Talk: James R. Carroll's Storefront Demo

2002-09-25 Thread Fogelson, Steve
I got a copy of this to review for Witango design, examples, etc. I can't view the tables associated with the app. I assume I need the ODBC files for the mkd and ddf files. My server and work station are Windows 2000. Does anyone have the files and instructions how to install them? Also any idea

Witango-Talk: Efficiency with tcf files

2002-09-25 Thread Fogelson, Steve
Quick question. I realize the benefits of using tcf files for consistent coding of routines. But does use of tcf files effect server efficiency? Any difference in using a method action vs. a CallMethod meta tag? Thanks Steve Fogelson Internet Commerce Solutions

Witango-Talk: Meta tag for searching a table within a taf or tcf

2002-09-25 Thread Fogelson, Steve
I looked through the documentation and didn't find anything, but as my wife tells me, sometimes the obvious is right in front of my face. Is their a meta tag for searching a table within a taf or tcf? Or is the only option a search action? Thanks Steve Fogelson Internet Commerce Solutions _

Re: Witango-Talk: IIS and SSL

2002-09-25 Thread Web Dude
I am running SSL and non SSL on one server. I guess I don't understand your question. You do not need 2 nic cards for 2 IPs. Just go to the tcp protocol in networks and click on the advanced button and there you can add as many IPs as you need. As for the redirect. You still don't need 2 IPs

RE: Witango-Talk: Meta tag for searching a table within a taf or tcf

2002-09-25 Thread Ben Johansen
Well you could create a custom tag that call a directDBMS ;-) No, there is only the 2 action Search and directDBMS Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com Authorized Witango Reseller http://www.pcforge.com/WitangoGoodies.htm Latest downloads & List Archives @ http://www.witango.ws -Original

Re: Witango-Talk: James R. Carroll's Storefront Demo

2002-09-25 Thread Stefan Gonick
If I remember right, the dsn.inc file is an include file containing the datasource information (datasource name, username, password) for the site. Stefan At 02:50 PM 9/25/2002 -0500, you wrote: >I got a copy of this to review for Witango design, examples, etc. I can't >view the tables associated

Re: Witango-Talk: Loop Update from array

2002-09-25 Thread Dan Stein
Thanks to Ben for off list help. -- Dan Stein Digital Software Solutions 799 Evergreen Circle Telford PA 18969 Land: 215-799-0192 Mobile: 610-256-2843 Fax 413-410-9682 FMP, WiTango, EDI,SQL 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dss-db.com > From: Dan Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Witango-Talk: IIS and SSL

2002-09-25 Thread John McGowan
> Note, however, if you do not pass the <@UserReferenceArgument> from > http to https, you will lose all your variables. Not true, the cookie is linked to the domain name, not the protocol (http vs. https) you can switch back and forth between http and https without losing session, and not passi

Re: Witango-Talk: Meta tag for searching a table within a taf or tcf

2002-09-25 Thread Chris Smith
I use separate dbms calls and then display accumulated results - Original Message - From: "Fogelson, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:59 PM Subject: Witango-Talk: Meta tag for searching a tab

RE: Witango-Talk: Meta tag for searching a table within a taf or tcf

2002-09-25 Thread Tom Ferguson
If your table isn't terribly large, you can use the search action to bring it into an array, then use the <@For> metatag to loop through it. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fogelson, Steve Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 4:00 PM To: Mu

Witango-Talk: OT - JavaScript windows ??

2002-09-25 Thread Chuck Lockwood
If a window opens another window, arguments can be passed from the form in the child back to the parent, as in: opener.document.customer.LastName.value="value collected in child from"; however, if the child window contains a form on an external url, it doesn't get passed back, a javascript error

Re: Witango-Talk: OT - JavaScript windows ??

2002-09-25 Thread Scott Cadillac
Hi Chuck, "Access denied" - Scripting across domains is typically a security 'feature' for browsers. There may be other methods around this, but if the form you are opening on the other Domain isn't overly large, try opening the page with <@URL>, so that technically the 'form' is opened in your

RE: Witango-Talk: OT - JavaScript windows ??

2002-09-25 Thread Ben Johansen
I have found that I have to move the form level to the window level in order to pass data back and forth between parent and child reliably For example --Parent-- --child--

Re: Witango-Talk: Arrays of scope domain don't behave

2002-09-25 Thread Garth Penglase
You said: "It's currently set to '<@CIPHER action=hash str=<@LOWER <@DOMAIN>>>'. I have no idea what that means. I'll have to have a look at the manuals, but any shortcuts would be appreciated." From what I understand, <@CIPHER action=hash> makes an encrypted key of 32 characters long - so wha

Witango-Talk: Changing Values In Array

2002-09-25 Thread Charles Brown
Darn it, I thought this was going to be the easy part. I want to substitute user friendly names for coded values in an array; e.g., change every occurance of #2 in the first column to "Local Business." I tried: <@ROWS ARRAY=hd_cnt1> <@IF EXPR="<@VAR hd_cnt1[<@CURROW>,1]>=1"> <@ASS

RE: Witango-Talk: Changing Values In Array

2002-09-25 Thread Ben Johansen
Why do you have the <@ELSE> section? The first item with a 1 will activate the else Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com Authorized Witango Reseller http://www.pcforge.com/WitangoGoodies.htm Latest downloads & List Archives @ http://www.witango.ws -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Fwd: Re: Witango-Talk: a random question]

2002-09-25 Thread Garth Penglase
I have two versions I use: One which validates other fields as well, and one that simply stops double submission. A week or so ago I submitted to the list two zip files which contained the javasripts I use most frequently on my sites for common activities such as this. I have asked Ben to uplo

Re: Witango-Talk: Changing Values In Array

2002-09-25 Thread Charles Brown
I had the <@ELSE> section to let me know if the <@IF> section was working, plus I initially had a bunch of <@ELSEIF>s, which I removed and just left the <@ELSE> to amuse myself. No message means the <@IF> section is working (maybe) and the problem is in the <@ASSIGN> section. Wa La, I just f

RE: Witango-Talk: IIS and SSL

2002-09-25 Thread Steve Smith
I re-read my original post and I realized that I left out something in my description. Nothing is is to be accessed from the non-SSL side of things. This is for a subdomain (call it store.myserver.com). Everything should pass through the SSL side. Right now, if a user types in http://store.myserve

Witango-Talk: [OT] Click to copy link?

2002-09-25 Thread Dan Stein
I would like to have a link copied to the clipboard when the user right clicks on it. The copied link has to go into excels Web query window and it will be different everytime because it has to have the userreferance in order to contain the variables. Right now I have directions telling them to

Re: Witango-Talk: IIS and SSL

2002-09-25 Thread Garth Penglase
So you're saying that as long as you stay within the same domain and on the same port, the userreferenceargument remains, even if I go through a bunch of plain html pages without passing the userreferenceargument. So when I return to a taf which has the userreferenceargument tag it will pick up

Re: Witango-Talk: Arrays of scope domain (on Mac) don't behave - here's the answer

2002-09-25 Thread Garth Penglase
Thanks Michael I am a bit confused by this email. SO you are saying that the method at the base of the email works under Tango 4.05.047 on the Mac? I don't have the latest version of t2k so I guess I'll need to get that. It seems to be referring to subfolders within your domain key - if so then

Re: Witango-Talk: Meta tag for searching a table within a taf or tcf

2002-09-25 Thread Chris Smith
Another one to add to the list for the With developers to considerthis issue would be solved if Witango implmeted a <@query> tag that let you write SQL in results. I know this is abilty exists in php and cf. csmith - Original Message - From: "Ben Johansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "M

Witango-Talk: There has been a new Goody added

2002-09-25 Thread benj
Hi here is the info on the new goodie added --- Name - JS Snippets Type - JavaScript Desc.- Various Java Script Snippets (a lot of these scripts are from free javascript sites so keep the credits intact when you use them to make it legal.) --- click on this link to go t

Re: Witango-Talk: Arrays of scope domain don't behave

2002-09-25 Thread Wayne Irvine
> I think your prob does lie with Welcome, which is interesting because I am > looking at using Welcome for handling the conversion of dynamic urls to > normal html for making it easier for spiders & robots to index a news site > I am doing. LOL, I do almost exactly that. All 'news' records in a

Re: Witango-Talk: IIS and SSL

2002-09-25 Thread Ford Pedersen
> > Note, however, if you do not pass the <@UserReferenceArgument> from >> http to https, you will lose all your variables. > >Not true, the cookie is linked to the domain name, not the protocol (http >vs. https) you can switch back and forth between http and https without >losing session, and

Re: Witango-Talk: a little OT - images in a drop down select box

2002-09-25 Thread Chris Smith
Great suggestion! I'm gonna see if I can't get this to work! csmith - Original Message - From: "John Hollister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 12:37 PM Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: a little OT - imag

Witango-Talk: A bit o' history...

2002-09-25 Thread Scott Cadillac
http://infomatters.com/im/FreeStuff/Tango2/Tango2Tips/90FunFacts.html http://infomatters.com/im/FreeStuff/Tango2/Tango2Tips/EasterEggs.html Something to help pass those leisurely hours late in the evening :-) Cheers

RE: Witango-Talk: A bit o' history...

2002-09-25 Thread Steve Smith
Too bad the easter eggs only work on the 1.x and 2.x servers. If I can find time, I'll try to set up a Tango 2.x server and see if I can get them to work. Yes I'm pretty sure that I have Tango 1.0 on floppies someplace and I know that I've got Tango 2.x, 3.x, as well as Butler and Bolero. I think

Witango-Talk: What is really happening?

2002-09-25 Thread Mark Weiss Vancouver
Hello All. What is really happening in Tango when you are using a "next 50 Matches" button and the results tab says begin retrieval at <@ARG _start>? I don't see anything in the debug that says that the SQL has changed. So is Tango returning the entire string and then doing some kind of parsing

Re: Witango-Talk: Arrays of scope domain don't behave

2002-09-25 Thread Garth Penglase
As far as I can see there are two ways of setting up a different domain key in Tango. One is setting it in the domainConfigFile as Jon was pointing out (see your server config for where this file is stored on your machine - usually in System Folder:Preferences:Tango2000 ), and the another is a

Re: Witango-Talk: A bit o' history...

2002-09-25 Thread Scott Cadillac
Thank you Steve, this is very interesting stuff. I also found this link: http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/mac/amug/files/internet/web-things/butle rlink-web-1.02.sit.hqx (Above URL may word-wrap) Is this some sort of download of the ButlerLink for Mac software? (782k) Of course, I wouldn't k

Re: Witango-Talk: What is really happening?

2002-09-25 Thread Wayne Irvine
> So is Tango returning the entire string and then doing some kind of parsing > of the result set behind the scenes? I believe so. Using FileMaker this is a real load so what we do is load the entire search into an array then load each segment directly from the array. Much, much quicker. Wayne I

Re: Witango-Talk: What is really happening?

2002-09-25 Thread Scott Cadillac
Hi Mark, From what I've always understood, the information you pass into the 'Limit to:' and 'Start retrieval at row number:' goes directly into your ODBC or database Client Drivers, which then control and limit the data returned by the database. This is not happening at the same layer as the SQL

Re: Witango-Talk: What is really happening?

2002-09-25 Thread Garth Penglase
If I remember correctly, the start arg counter was set at 1 and then incremented depending on the number of records that it is set to retrieve. ie if finish arg is set to 50 then the as the action is completed the start arg is incremented to 51 and so on. The code does parse the functions bein

Witango-Talk: Executing Oracle PL/SQL Procedure in Tango

2002-09-25 Thread P.S. Manohar
Hi All, I tried to execute an oracle procedure using DIRECT_DBMS. I got the following error. Can anyone explain me about this problem? Is there any other method to do the same. Kindly get back to me on this. Error An error occurred while processing your request: File: testproc.taf Position:

RE: Witango-Talk: Meta tag for searching a table within a taf or tcf

2002-09-25 Thread Ben Johansen
Your wish is my command <@QUERY SourceInfo="" SQLStmt="" ArrayName=""> SourceInfo = three comma seperated facts DSN,USERID,PASSWORD SQLStmt = sql statment, one that returns a result ArrayName = the name of the local returned local variable that contains the results of SQLStmt place the TestDoQue

RE: Witango-Talk: Executing Oracle PL/SQL Procedure in Tango

2002-09-25 Thread Ben Johansen
what was the statement? sometimes you have to do a "CALL" or "SELECT Procedure()" in the direct dbms examples 1. CALL Procedure(Param1,Param2) 2. SELECET Procedure(Param1,Param2) Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com Authorized WiTango Reseller http://www.pcforge.com/WitangoGoodies.htm latest be

Witango-Talk: <@QUERY> Custom Tag

2002-09-25 Thread Ben Johansen
oops, I left debug on in the TAF and the TCF :-b Your wish is my command II <@QUERY SourceInfo="" SQLStmt="" ArrayName=""> SourceInfo = three comma separated facts DSN,USERID,PASSWORD SQLStmt = sql statement, one that returns a result ArrayName = the name of the local returned local variable tha

RE: Witango-Talk: Executing Oracle PL/SQL Procedure in Tango

2002-09-25 Thread P.S. Manohar
Hi Ben, I tried using execute ('') Which resulted me in the below error. When I tried using call ('') I got the same error. Could you please give me an example by using Select statement to execute a query in DIRECT_DBMS. Thanks Manohar -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mail