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Tim Easley
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Is there a way to sort a tabular report vertically for a specific ACROSS value?

Consider the following code:
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM DEALER_COST
BY COUNTRY
ACROSS MODEL
END

I need the final report output to be grouped vertically by country but sorted vertically by DEALER_COST for a specific MODEL. If you put the result from above in Excel, then manually sorted for the column named '2000 GT VELOCE'. That's what I need my output to look like.

In my real report, the ACROSS column is YEAR, and the quantity of distinct YEAR values will change. Otherwise I would just DEFINE or COMPUTE a set number of YEAR columns.

The following code doesn't work, but it may give you an idea of what I want the end result to be:

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM DEALER_COST
BY HIGHEST DEALER_COST WHEN = MODEL EQ '2000 GT VELOCE'
BY COUNTRY
ACROSS MODEL
END

Thanks for any advice!

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Posts: 29 | Registered: July 17, 2007Report This Post
Danny-SRL
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This maybe:

  
DEFINE FILE CAR
RCOST4/D6=IF SEATS EQ 4 THEN RCOST ELSE 0;
END

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM RCOST4 NOPRINT
BY TOTAL HIGHEST RCOST4 NOPRINT
BY COUNTRY
SUM RCOST
BY TOTAL HIGHEST RCOST4 NOPRINT
BY COUNTRY
ACROSS SEATS
END


Daniel
In Focus since 1982
wf 8.202M/Win10/IIS/SSA - WrapApp Front End for WF

 
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Tim Easley
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Thanks but the values in the ACROSS column are going to change, so I cannot hard-code a specific value in a DEFINE.

Sorry but this is a tough one to explain. Maybe a better question is if I were to run the following code, when I use the result hold file is there a way to refer to one specific ACROSS column? They all appear to have the same name.

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM DEALER_COST RETAIL_COST
BY COUNTRY
ACROSS MODEL
ON TABLE HOLD
END

Pn and Nn only seem to work in the style sheet, I'm unable to use them for sorting.

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Davmayf44
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use the "E" value name, ex.- E01,E02, ect.
Set them equal to to names that you can use...


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Dan Satchell
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How do you determine which across column will be used for sorting?


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FrankDutch
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First create a defined field bases on the specific model dealer cost
Use that field for sorting




Frank
prod: WF 7.6.10 platform Windows,
databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7
test: WF 7.6.10 on the same platform and databases,IE7

 
Posts: 2387 | Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands | Registered: December 03, 2006Report This Post
GamP
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Or use the asnames feature for the across columns.
See this example:
SET ASNAMES=ON

DEFINE FILE GGSALES
YM/YYM = DATE;
END

TABLE FILE GGSALES
SUM DOLLARS
BY REGION
BY CATEGORY
ACROSS YM
ON TABLE HOLD AS XYZZY FORMAT ALPHA
END

TABLE FILE XYZZY
PRINT *
BY DOL199611     NOPRINT
END
Now the only thing to decide upon is which across value to sort on.


GamP
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