Display App Name

[aklass]

Looking for solution to display App-Name (i.e in the header) or upon click on a button etc.
The bottom line is that I would like to have user tell me which App is opened on the screen (when reporting bugs, issues etc.). I have had something like this on the desktop application and it works great that way (as I do not have to ask the user for a screenshot). There is also a table called APPS, so showing the App-ID would be OK as well.

Any ideas ?

[cereda]

Event | onApplicationInit
$self = $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’];
[Applicazione]="App: ".$this->Ini->nm_cod_apl . “
” . "Versione ".$this->Ini->nm_app_version;

Layout | Header & Footer | Footer | value [Applicazione]

[aklass]

Thaks , but
Do I need any external LIBs ?
this doesn’t seem to work. I get errors…
there also seem to be some security issues with using PHP_SELF

PHP Form - Undefined constant ’PHP_SELF’

[alvagar]

Here a POST maybe can help you.

How to add sec_apps.description value

I know that this works - and saves me from having to manually input application descriptions - but the code has to be put into each application and executes every time the application is used (which I think is unnecessary activity - I only need it once) sc_exec_sql(“UPDATE sec_apps SET description = '”. $this->Ini->nm_nome_apl ."’ WHERE app_name = ‘". $this->Ini->nm_cod_apl ."’ "); I’m wondering if there is a way to do this using the sync_apps application so that it is run once when the app is…

[aamartinezz]

Hi
I’ve tried but none works.

How can I get the name of the application?

thanks

[jlboutin60]

You can find the name of the current running app in

$this->Ini->nm_cod_apl

[aamartinezz]

Thanks.
I tried but null is received. May be a bug with my version 9.9.024…

[aklass]

so this works:

[App]="App: ".$this->Ini->nm_cod_apl;

now, how can we place this in every app header OR footer automatically ?
any ideas ?

[jlboutin60]

This is the same code.

You cannot place it automatically in the header of footer.

Maybe you can put it in the footer of the menu and refresh the footer of the menu regularly with javascript

[aklass]

So if I open an App, then this App is active (so called “on-top”). How would I refresh the Menu when it is in the background ? I’m not sure if it is doable. I was just wondering if we could use an “include” clause
and store this in some LIB.

It would be nice to have a custom EPRESS EDIT feature to add some code to every single App in the project (ie. onInit event).

[jlboutin60]

To add the app Name in the header you can use the following process

In onScriptInit of each app set the app name:

[App] = $this->Ini->nm_cod_apl;

Create a blank app that will return the App value, something like this

header('Content-Type: application/text');
echo "App: " . [App];

In the HTML header add the following

<script>                                           
window.onload = function() {
     $content = file_get_content('..\blank_app\index.php');
     document.getElementById('app-name-container').innertHTML = $content;
}  
</script>

I didn’t test this, it’s just a process to be fine tune for your specific situation.

[aklass]

jlboutin60
Thank you so much for this idea with the HEADER (I will test it). I think showing the App Name is very helpful when the user needs to refer a bug, feature etc, but is unsure how to refer the App. Better yet implementing an App number from SEC_APPS table could help as well.

My big question is how to automate it. I have around 600 Apps in a project, so doing this manually would take forever.

[alvagar]

This functionality should be build in SCRIPTCASE. It is widely used for verification with the end user.

[aklass]

Agree.
Before SC I used tool which allowed this for 20 years, and not having it creates additional headache, especially when the user needs to report some bug or issue.

I was wondering if using some king of Library , then INCLUDE directive would allow to place it in every App. I can do this manually and it works, but doing this to 600 Apps would take weeks,…
I am hoping , perhaps somebody can have some idea how to automate it…