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I have a file sorted by a particular set of fields. There are multiple occurances of one record (with different data than the sort field) to the right of the sort field. I want to de-dupe the file in such a way as to retain the highest record value (but there may be more than one occurance of that highest value). Is there a way to do this in FOCUS?

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WebFOCUS 5.1
Windows
Excel, HTML and PDF
 
Posts: 10 | Registered: December 03, 2009Report This Post
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Did you try sorting BY HIGHEST WHATEVER?
 
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Have you tried:

BY HIGHEST 1 <sortfield>


WebFOCUS 7.7.05
 
Posts: 1213 | Location: Seattle, Washington - USA | Registered: October 22, 2007Report This Post
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Watch out for any fields that have HIGHEST_* as the prefix. We have a field in Peoplesoft Campus Solutions called "HIGHEST_EDUC_LVL" and a BY HIGHEST 1 EFFDT (for effective dated sort) produces an error due to WebFOCUS getting confused with the field name present.

Workarounds include either
SET FIELDNAME=NOTRUNC
to tell FOCUS not to truncate the fieldname or
BY TOP
which is the same as "HIGHEST".

Dan at UNO


WebFOCUS 8.8.05M (Prod)/8.0.09(Sandbox) Windows
 
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