Report not prompting for a parameter

[Erin Trotter]

I'm using webfocus 9.3.1.  In the past, I have been able to create a report and set the format as a parameter and get prompted for a value when it is run.  Now, for some reason (and maybe it's this version), it just throws an error on the report saying that the value for the parameter called &FORMAT is not valid.  Here is a sample report with the CAR file.

 

TABLE FILE car
BY CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY
BY CAR.COMP.CAR
BY CAR.BODY.SEATS
BY CAR.BODY.DEALER_COST
BY CAR.BODY.RETAIL_COST
BY CAR.BODY.SALES
BY CAR.SPECS.LENGTH

ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT &FORMAT
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE SET CACHELINES 100
ON TABLE SET STYLE *

TYPE=REPORT, TITLETEXT=&WF_TITLE.QUOTEDSTRING, SUMMARY=&WF_SUMMARY.QUOTEDSTRING, ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE, $
ENDSTYLE
END

-RUN

 

 

Here are my parameter prompting settings in the Admin console:

 

 

The setting for the parameters is the same in my other environments (test and prod) but those are both 9.1.1 right now.  Is there some different way to get these parameters to show up in the new version? 

 

Edited November 20 by Erin Trotter

[David Beagan]

I think &FORMAT is a system variable. 

Try using &WFFMT instead.

[Erin Trotter]

@David Beagan  wow!  I guess this must be a recent change.  The crazy thing is that if you DO pass something using an HTML page, it will accept it and use it, but it just will never prompt.  This fixed my issue.  Thank you!

[David Beagan]

Yea, I see that the Creating Reports manual shows examples using &FORMAT.

They should use some other name. 

 

[Erin Trotter]

Yes and I have been using &FORMAT for years without issue.  At least I know which reports to look out for now when I eventually upgrade the other environments.