selection for report without selection table

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Confusious (Bruce Easton) say:
> (inline reponses -Bruce - STN, Inc.)

Ditto.

> As per my last response, you can substitute interactive input with
> hard-coding or with values supplied via -r+ at pm, etc. as necessary.

Negatory.  Security issue; tainted input near a command line--which OG
won't allow anyway.  That's why I use a file to store data and have
processing parse that file.  Same result, possible under OG, secure.

> You should be able to use FORM and FORMM to print from the
> same clerk session that you are using as a control session, but

I said I was using report, not clerk.  I'll have to use subsequent
commands.  But you just answered the question, although someone gave me the
idea I should be able to just use -f instead of -fp, do my usual stuff, and
lookup, populate dummy fields, and use print.  Cleaner--if it works.

> Yeah, but if you're trying to stay in the same clerk session
> (I'm assuming all from @menu), then why not just control your
> filtering there inside lookup loops rather than doing I/O to
> another file?

You must have forgotten my methodology:

/appl/fp/dreport cgi_control -u -sr %n -fp proc_table >/dev/null 2>&1

I think I can just use an actual cloned format with dummies, do my
population from lookup, and use print.  Yes?

> Oh - so you are doing PDF generation at the same time.
> Well if you use dreport with -v, then there should be no need to use
> a limiting file - take out interactive and replace with values
> from @pm, etc. passed from the clerk controlling process to get
> the proper selection done.  Output finished report to a file and
> then run pdf processor on that file to produce pdf.

How are you doing @pm work in OneGate with dynamic values without using
system?  That's not possible.  It's designed to prevent it--commands are
immutable.  You'd have to system() to do that, which throws a wrench in
user counting.

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