Getting workarea with FormApi

This should be an easy one for you guys!

Does anyone know of a way to get the vpath to the current workarea in FormApi?

I am wanting to do something similar to the following:

var parameters = new Object();
parameters.workareaVPath = <INEEDTHEVPATH>;
IWDatacapture.callServer("/iw-bin/parseWorkarea.ipl", parameters, true);

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Michael

Hi Keith

It depends on your version of TeamSite (always a good idea to include that in your post).

In 6.5 you can use IWDatacapture.getWorkarea ()

Are you using 6.5?

Cheers
Michael

KeithB

Aha sorry about that, I'm using TeamSite 6.1 on Windows.

I'm thinking I've got to parse it out of location.href but I don't really wanna have to do that!

Migrateduser

Pre-6.5, it's not as straight-forward as it could be. In 6.1, this has worked for me:



     var parameters = new Object();
     parameters.myWorkarea = parent.gWorkarea;

... although, this is not supported in 6.1. But hey, it works, right?

Dave

Current Environment(s):
(1) TS 6.1 SP1 on W2K3
(2) TS 6.1 SP2 on W2K
(3) TS 6.1 on W2K

Michael

Hi Keith

I have used this functions on older versions (5.5.2 and 6.0 I think). It may well work on 6.1 also. This code is not true formAPI and is therefore not supported by iwov and should be flagged to be changed as part of an upgrade to 6.5 -- however it should sort you out for the time being.

function getWorkarea()
{
// Returns the path down to the workarea
return( top._dcWin.gWorkarea );
}

hth

Cheers
Michael

KeithB

Thanks guys that works a treat Smiley Happy