I am trying to put a conditional (WHEN) on following matrix report.
Not able to figure out the 'WHEN' part.

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES
ACROSS CAR
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT HTML
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT,
     BORDER=LIGHT,
     FONT='ARIAL',
     SIZE=8,
$
TYPE=DATA,
     COLUMN=C*,
     STYLE=NORMAL,
     COLOR=RED,
-* THIS IS WHERE I AM STRUGGLING WITH. Follg does not work.
     WHEN=SUM SALES GT 15000,
$
END

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,

quote:

WHEN=SUM SALES GT 15000,$

change to
WHEN=SALES GT 15000,$
Btw, did you use a gui tool to build this fex?

This message has been edited. Last edited by: susannah,

I browsed manuals and it worked after some tweaking. Now I can style cells greater than zero.

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES
ACROSS HIGHEST COUNTRY
BY MODEL
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT HTML
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT,
     BORDER=LIGHT,
     FONT='ARIAL',
     SIZE=8,
$
TYPE=DATA,
-*   COLUMN=C*,
     ACROSSCOLUMN=N1,
     STYLE=NORMAL,
     COLOR=RED,
-*   WHEN=SALES LT 10000,
     WHEN=N2 GT 0,
$
END

The key to your solution was to use ACROSSCOLUMN and to remove the word SUM from the WHEN clause as Susannah stated.

Yes. Thx to susannah for the idea of removing SUM.
Why didn't C* work ?

  
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES
ACROSS HIGHEST COUNTRY
BY MODEL
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT HTML
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT,
     BORDER=LIGHT,
     FONT='ARIAL',
     SIZE=8,
$
TYPE=DATA,
-*   Why doesn't C* work?
-*   COLUMN=C*,
     ACROSSCOLUMN=N1,
     STYLE=NORMAL,
     COLOR=RED,
-*Remove SUM
-*   WHEN=SUM SALES GT 0,
     WHEN=SALES GT 0,
$
END

Govind,

Unfortunately I can't give you a good answer for that one as to why C* doesn't work in this situation other than to say that it is not intended to be used with matrix reports (BY/ACROSS). You would think that C* should work but obviously does not. Hence the need for using ACROSSCOLUMN.

My guess would be that C* or Cn notation is a way to reference columns in the internal matrix, not actual columns on the report. So due to the fact that the internal matrix does not contain multiple columns for a BY/ACROSS report, only the first column gets the formatting. I'm guessing on this one but I believe the actual ACROSS effect is an output thing in which FOCUS takes the columns in the internal matrix and visually maps them into a matrix for output.

I'm stretching here to explain this behavior so I may be totally off base with my reasoning.

Can anyone confirm my hypothesis?

quote:

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES
ACROSS HIGHEST COUNTRY
BY MODEL
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD
ON TABLE SET ONLINE-FMT HTML
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT,
BORDER=LIGHT,
FONT='ARIAL',
SIZE=8,
$
TYPE=DATA,
-* COLUMN=C*,
ACROSSCOLUMN=N1,
STYLE=NORMAL,
COLOR=RED,
-* WHEN=SALES LT 10000,
WHEN=N2 GT 0,
$
END

how can we achieve the same styling in an AHTML report? I used the above code by just replacing HTML with AHTML and it completely removed the styling.