Alternative to Single Category View When View Has Multiple Cateogry Levels

Author: Tripp W Black

Created: 04/04/2002 at 05:15 PM

 

Category:
Notes Developer Tips
ViewTemplates

Issue:
You create a $$ViewTemplate for Whatever.
The Whatever view has multiple levels of categories.
You are using a drop down or action links to dynamically select a single top level category

Problem:
Clicking/opening a triangle for one of the secondary levels causes the view to revert back to the "default" value of the view when it first loaded.

Solution:
Do not use the single category view option. Instead use the web parameter "&RestrictToCategory=value" in the url. Have the url that your drop down or text/button actions use a formula similar to the following:

db:=@Subset(@DbName; -1);
view:= @ReplaceSubstring(@Subset(@ViewTitle; -1); "\\"; " ");
@URLOpen("/" + db + "/" + view + "!OpenView&RestrictToCategory=F")

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