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Send an AGS call from a Self Service Screen

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J.W.
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7/8/2008 7:06 PM

    We have several customizations that send AGS calls from a ESS form.  Prior to 9.0, this would work with the following:

     

             // build ags call for effective date validation
             var vAGScall = "?_PDL=" + authUser.prodline;
             vAGScall += "&_TKN=ZZPS.1&_LFN=ALL&_RTN=DATA&_TDS=IGNORE&_OUT=XML&_EVT=CHG&FC=I";
                     vAGScall += "&FR-DATE=" + vDate + "&ERROR=Z&_EOT=TRUE";

             // send ags call to the server
             var vAGSInfo = top.httpRequest(top.AGSPath + vAGScall);
             if (vAGSInfo.status){
                 alert("Error in AGS call to check for payroll sunday.");
                 return false;
             }

    Now on LSF9 this call fails with a javascript error 'access denied'.  I know there are some API's for authenticating with LSF9, but should I need to use those considering this is coming from a session that is already authenticated?  Also, I'm guessing the top.httpRequest no longer works.

    Any input on how to make this work in the new world?

    Thanks,
    JW

    John Henley
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    7/8/2008 8:36 PM
      I'm guessing that your "access denied" Javascript error has nothing to do with security. The issue is probably that both the AGS syntax as well as the location of the user variables/properties have changed. During your LSF9 migration, your Design Studio pages should have been run thru an upgrade utility which changed these things. For example, you now get the prodline from portalWnd.oUserProfile.getAttribute("ProductLine"). Stick an alert(vAGScall) before the AGS call is executed and paste the AGS call into the browser and see what happens...
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      John
      J.W.
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      7/9/2008 12:57 PM

        Actually the AGS call is getting built correctly.  The variables work fine (I have alerted it to death and see the transaction as it should be).  The access denied error happens when it is submitted.

        John Henley
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        7/9/2008 1:38 PM
          Try changing:
          var vAGSInfo = top.httpRequest(top.AGSPath + vAGScall);
          to:
          var vAGSInfo = portalWnd.httpRequest(portalWnd.AGSPath + vAGScall);
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          John
          J.W.
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          7/9/2008 1:51 PM

            I get "portalWnd" is undefined. 

            Should I be declaring that somewhere?

            John Henley
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            7/9/2008 2:01 PM
              Oh, sorry. I thought this was Design Studio modification (I'm going to move it to the "customization forum".
              You should probably look at one of the xhrnet .js files and steal that code (look at dr.js as a good example...)
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              John
              J.W.
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              7/9/2008 2:06 PM
                My apologies for posting in the wrong forum.

                I will take a look at the files you suggested. Thanks for the heads up.