External Javascript Issue

[andy_mason_84]

Hi All,

I'm trying to reference an external Javascript library. In this case Google Maps but I suspect it happens with any library.

On my report page I have an HTML item with the following:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"></script>

This works fine in a single-page report but as soon as I add a prompt page it stops working. The rest of my Javascript renders correctly but it doesn't recognise any commands in the Google Maps library, as if the above line hasn't been declared.

Anybody else had any beef with external javascript like this?

Cheers,

AM

[bdbits]

Well, a prompt page is rendered as a separate web page from a report and does not include anything from the report pages. So the javascript library is not included on the prompt page unless you also add the HTML item on the prompt page.

Or add the HTML item to the prompt page as a layout component reference to the HTML item on the report page, so if you make any changes it shows up in both places.

Or make a "report" of layout component objects and reference that, which is what I am trying to do recently to simplify Google maps integration for report authors here who know little or no javascript.