List Box Data Files

List box data that is created externally to an Agile Business Suite System, can be distributed from the Web server.

To distribute externally created list box data files, perform the following:

  1. Create a list box data file using a text editor, for example, Notepad.

  2. In Developer, reference the list box data file in the List Contents Editor dialog box (for either a ListBox or Combobox), by selecting the Runtime created contents optionsand supplying the object name in the List name box.

  3. Copy the listbox data file to the \lists folder beneath the application subdirectory on the Web server. The name of the data file must be the same as the object name specified in Developer, with a .lst extension (for example, if the object name is names, the file name would be

    C:\InetPub\MySystem\com\unisys\Sample\lists\names.lst)

    Note: For lists that start with an asterisk (*) you have to substitute the “*” with “_star_” in the file name, as “*” is not a valid character in a file name. For example, if the list name is *.BRANCHES, the list data file name should be created as ‘_star_.BRANCHES.lst’.

  4. In the Component Enabler client, set the Download server location.

    For Presentation Client, this is the Component URL configuration option.

    For user-developed client applications, this means using the setDownLoadServer method of the LIBCEnvironment object.

WDP is still used for distributing lists that are created using the SendListStatic command.