Valence Forum - Valence Framework 6.X

Launching Fusion 5250 in New Window

rsnell — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 22:31:26 GMT

When launching Fusion 5250 into its own browser window, is there any way to prevent the 5250 session from being closed out if you log out of Valence? Alternatively, is there a way to launch a Fusion 5250 session that is in a separate Valence session? Closing out Valence while 5250 sessions are active can cause problems with abnormal termination of 5250 applications (whether in a separate window or in the portal)

Launching Fusion 5250 in New Window

rsnell — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 21:41:43 GMT

Launcher and Hamburger Menu Enhancement Request

rsnell — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 14:22:52 GMT

I'm getting feedback from my users that the Launcher and hamburger menu on the left of the portal can seem overwhelming, especially as we add more and more options. There can be a lot to scroll through to find options. I recognize that the search is available and also the favorites, but these don't necessarily address the feedback I'm receiving. It would be useful if the categories both on the launcher and hamburger menu could all be collapsed to be able to simplify the look of the portal overall. An option on the user profile and/or in the user preferences would be useful to default to a collapsed view. The ability to turn off the launcher and rely on the hamburger menu would also be useful.

Helper Program not Called on Field Change Using AppVar

Shawn Smalley — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 13:23:48 GMT

On 6.4, I have a form widget that calls a helper program on creation and on Field Change after 1000 milliseconds. The program checks all the values in the form to make sure they are within requirements for the user to go to the next menu. If everything looks good, it changes an app variable that is tied to enabling/disabling a button which allows the user to go to the next menu.

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Most of the fields on the form are filled in automatically based on saved user information, but they must always select an end-of-shift time to be able to log in, so this is usually the only field they actually have to edit.

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Clicking the button on the form will bring up a pop-up to give them intervals of time within 14 hours to set as their clock-out time.
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Once they select one, that sets an App Variable which is linked to the field for "Date And Time Your Shift Will End?" on the form
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However, as you can see, even though every field is now filled out, the log in button is still greyed out.

If I change any other field on the form, the button will then be enabled and i can continue, so it seems to be an issue with changing a field via linked app variable not triggering the on change call to the helper program.

Any help on this would be appreciated, thank you!

Fusion 5250 Error Reset

rsnell — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 20:14:05 GMT

Pressing Reset (control) does not clear the error message in Fusion 5250. The message remains and may overlay function keys in our applications.

Broken charts

rsnell — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:56:52 GMT

I just installed the latest version of 6.4. I have an app that displays a number of column charts. The underlying data is retrieved after setting a vvin_virtual Parameter to a complex date calculation (date98 >= date(trim(char(year(current_date) - CASE WHEN month(current_date) = 12 THEN 0 ELSE 1 END ) ) || '-' || right( '0' || trim(char(mod(month(current_date), 12) + 1)), 2 ) || '-01' ) AND date98 <= current_date). The app worked fine at 6.3 but returns no data at 6.4.

Bypass or Override vvIn_virtual

gwilburn — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:19:09 GMT

Just curious if there is a way to bypass or omit the vvIn_virtual() portion of a data source... I noticed the "vvIn_virtual Overrides" option but that appears to only work with true/false values. I'm looking to override it completely.

Passing MultiSelect fields to Drill Down

rsnell — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:53:47 GMT

I have an app that uses a form to set the values to use to filter a number of widgets. This includes one field that is a multiSelect fields. Everything works fine when I filter the widgets. However, if I want to drill down to further detail by clicking a row on a widget, the multiSelect isn't passed in a way that can be used for filtering. I pushed the value of the original multiSelect into an app variable, but this doesn't work the same in subsequent filtering. In fact the filter throws an error. How can I get around this issue?

Fixed Page Size

rsnell — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:36:00 GMT

I'm looking for some guidance to address an issue with apps that I develop. When I develop the app, it will look great on my screen. However, not everyone has their screens set at the same resolution and it can result in widgets being too compressed and the user experience is impacted. Is there some way to fix the size of the page when rendering an app so the experience is consistent? I'm open to having scroll bars or some way to automatically set zoom to compensate.

New parm in VVINSTMGR with 6.4?

mguske — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:41:28 GMT

Yesterday, I downloaded and installed the VALENCE6 instance for 6.4.
Now I am trying to convert my Test instance to 6.4 and I'm getting the following error:
CALL PGM(VVINSTMGR)
Function check. CPF1015 unmonitored by VVSRVPGM at statement 0000384900,
instruction X'0000'.
The call to VVKEYMGR_V ended in error (C G D F).
In my conversion program, I have the following code:
chgvar &Action 'deleteInstance'
chgvar &Instance 'SPACEREG'
Chgvar &ToInst ' '
Chgvar &ToType ' '
Chgvar &ToPath ' '
Chgvar &ToPort 0
Chgvar &ToNote ' '
Call VVINSTMGR parm(&Action &Instance &ToInst &ToType &Topath &ToPort &ToNote)
Is there a new parm in VVINSTMGR for 6.4?

Remove Filter

Allie O'Kelley — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:44:53 GMT

I am using a separate widget, a form with a dropdown, to filter many widgets on a scroll container. I want to be able to clear my form dropdown and remove my filter from all widgets. it seems that when i clear the drop down, the other widgets still have the filter in the SQL datasource. How can I remove the statement from the where clause when I am using "Filter Widget"?

where my dropdown is blank, I want the grid to display the original, unfiltered, source that lists all salesman image.png

Multiple Summary Values

rsnell — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:47:24 GMT

I'm trying to put together an app where the user wants to see both the total and average of a column. Is there a way to do this beyond having the column appear twice?

PHP vulnerabilities

TWright — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:20:43 GMT

“Information Security is responding to two newly disclosed critical PHP vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, collectively referred to as PHP2Shell. Both are rated CVSS 9.2 Critical and can potentially allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute code remotely within an affected PHP web environment.

For anything identified, please provide Information Security with:

Application/service name and business owner
Whether it is internet-facing or internal-only
Where it is hosted
PHP version and runtime being used
Whether CVE-2026-109618 or CVE-2026-109619 applies
Current patch/remediation status
Expected completion time if remediation is still required

Any indication of attempted or successful exploitation identified during your review.”
Please let review and respond if these vulnerabilities affect our CNX applications in any way.

Copy Widget to new Widget under different Data Source

roedea — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:22:56 GMT

I want to make a new app that is very similar to an existing app. So rather than creating everything from scratch, I want to copy the existing data source and grid widget to a new data source and grid widget under that new data source. This will save me a bunch of formatting, etc. Then I'll just make a new app using that grid widget.

So I copied the data source to a new data source with a new name and made a couple small changes to the selection criteria in the SQL statement. But when I copy my grid widget to a new name, the new grid widget is still under the original data source. How do I change the new widget to be under the newly created data source?