Webdesk & CGI issue during TS migration.

HarryPaul

I am currently migrating TS server from 5.5 to 6.5 version. In TS5.5 we had few user defined menus configured which use to call cgi files.

But now when i tried to replicate same thing by adding the new menu in TS6.5 using toolkit and calling the same cgi file there is an issue.
The issue is in 5.5 my CGI use to read query parameters like user role, name, vpath, branch etc which are not readable in 6.5.

I also noticed that on click of menu in 5.5, control use to go to utf8form.jsp and then my cgi file. Is that where the problem lies, since webdesk is no more available in 6.5 then what functionality is there to replicate this.

Adam Stoller

I am currently migrating TS server from 5.5 to 6.5 version. In TS5.5 we had few user defined menus configured which use to call cgi files. But now when i tried to replicate same thing by adding the new menu in TS6.5 using toolkit and calling the same cgi file there is an issue. The issue is in 5.5 my CGI use to read query parameters like user role, name, vpath, branch etc which are not readable in 6.5. I also noticed that on click of menu in 5.5, control use to go to utf8form.jsp and then my cgi file. Is that where the problem lies, since webdesk is no more available in 6.5 then what functionality is there to replicate this.

If you'd research in the forums and KB articles you'd probably find lots of answers - however I'll give you the quick one - use

/iw-bin/wdpro_menu.ipl/your_script.cgi

and you should see all the variables you used to know and love.

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