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I want to filter by a given set of account numbers. The unique set numbers about 4000. Can I attach a text/spreadsheet file to a WHERE statement so I can filter on those 4000 unique numbers? How do I do it?

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Francis Mariani
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Documentation > Creating Reports With WebFOCUS Language > Selecting Records for Your Report > Reading Selection Values From a File

These two usage notes are important:

quote:
# For IF, the total of all files can be up to 32,767 literals, including new line and other formatting characters. Lower limits apply to fixed sequential and other non-relational data sources.
# For WHERE, the file can be approximately 16,000 bytes. If the file is too large, an error message displays.


Francis


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Here is the message I get when I used a WHERE statement:

WARNING: FILE (EOCs) IS EMPTY
...RETRIEVAL KILLED
0 NUMBER OF RECORDS IN TABLE= 0 LINES= 0


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You have to FILEDEF the file and it must be on the server:

FILEDEF SELECT1 DISK SELECT1.TXT
-RUN

-WRITE SELECT1 ENGLAND
-WRITE SELECT1 JAPAN

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES
BY COUNTRY
IF COUNTRY EQ (SELECT1)
END



FILEDEF SELECT1 DISK SELECT1.TXT
-RUN

-WRITE SELECT1 ENGLAND
-WRITE SELECT1 JAPAN

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES
BY COUNTRY
WHERE COUNTRY IN FILE SELECT1
END


Francis


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You can't see my files but this query gave the error message from before:

FILEDEF EOCS DISK EOCS.PRN

DEFINE FILE GLACCOUNTAMOUNTS
FIRST_TOKEN/A2 = GETTOK(ACCOUNTID, 25, 1, '.', 2, FIRST_TOKEN);
MID_TOKEN/A4 = GETTOK(ACCOUNTID, 25, -2, '.', 4, MID_TOKEN);
LAST_TOKEN/A4 = GETTOK(ACCOUNTID, 25, -1, '.', 4, LAST_TOKEN);
END

TABLE FILE GLACCOUNTAMOUNTS
SUM
CREDIT
DEBIT
BY FIRST_TOKEN
BY MID_TOKEN
BY LAST_TOKEN

WHERE DATETIME EQ DT(2010/09/30 00:00:00.000);
WHERE ACCOUNTCLASSTYPE EQ 'EXPENSE';
WHERE LAST_TOKEN IN FILE EOCS;

ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE SET BYDISPLAY ON
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K
END

I didn't put single quotes around the data on the .PRN file believing them to be formated at text anyway.


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FILEDEF EOCS DISK EOCS.PRN


Since you do not provide an Application or Directory path, this FILEDEF allocates the file to the temporary directory.

My example might have been misleading - I was creating my filter file "on the fly", hence the temporary directory was OK. Your filter file already exists somewhere - you have to point the FILEDEF to it:

FILEDEF EOCS DISK d:\dir1\dir1a\EOCS.PRN

or

FILEDEF EOCS DISK baseapp/EOCS.PRN


Francis


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I did and I get the same answer.

FILEDEF EOCS DISK C:\IBI\APPS\USERFILES\EOCS.PRN

DEFINE FILE GLACCOUNTAMOUNTS
FIRST_TOKEN/A2 = GETTOK(ACCOUNTID, 25, 1, '.', 2, FIRST_TOKEN);
MID_TOKEN/A4 = GETTOK(ACCOUNTID, 25, -2, '.', 4, MID_TOKEN);
LAST_TOKEN/A4 = GETTOK(ACCOUNTID, 25, -1, '.', 4, LAST_TOKEN);
END

TABLE FILE GLACCOUNTAMOUNTS
SUM
CREDIT
DEBIT
BY FIRST_TOKEN
BY MID_TOKEN
BY LAST_TOKEN

WHERE DATETIME EQ DT(2010/09/30 00:00:00.000);
WHERE ACCOUNTCLASSTYPE EQ 'EXPENSE';
WHERE LAST_TOKEN IN FILE EOCS;

ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE SET BYDISPLAY ON
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K
END


WARNING: FILE (EOCS) IS EMPTY
...RETRIEVAL KILLED
0 NUMBER OF RECORDS IN TABLE= 0 LINES= 0


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The C drive must be on the reporting server.


Francis


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Are you able to read aline from the EOCS file with the commands

-READ EOCS &Line.A10.
-TYPE &Line


If you get an error, then perhaps the file is not in this location.

This assumes each line in the file is at least 10 chars long.

You could also try doing a directory listing of C:\IBI\APPS\USERFILES\ in the program to see if the file exists.


Waz...

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OK, I found my problem. The query was reading off the server and the filedef was pointing to my local. I had to copy the file to the server and then do the filedef. Thanks for your help!


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