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Jbucks007
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Has anyone been able to apply conditional formating for a dynamic value?

I know you can do:
DEFMACRO=COND0001,
MACTYPE=RULE,
WHEN=N5 EQ N3, or you can use WHEN N5 EQ 'Totals'

However I have a dynamic value for a Team Name plus a constant of "Totals". I've tried
DEFMACRO=COND0001,
MACTYPE=RULE,
WHEN=N5 EQ (N3 + ' Totals')
and
WHEN=N5 EQ (team_name + ' Totals') -*team_name is the original column name

and other variations with the ticks and quotes and parentheses.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Jason


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Posts: 11 | Registered: November 18, 2005Report This Post
Alan B
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The manual is clear on this point, the value on the right of the operand must be a constant or field in the report, and functions (e.g. concateneting a field and a constant) cannot be used.

The best approach is to use a DEFINE or COMPUTE in your report, with the NOPRINT option, and use that within the WHEN clause.

e.g.
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COMPUTE CHECK/A1=IF field1 EQ field2 | 'constant' THEN 'Y' ELSE 'N'; NOPRINT
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WHEN=CHECK EQ 'Y',
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Alan.
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Jbucks007
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Nice work around. I didn't even know that there was a concatenate function in WF. Makes total sense...after you showed me!

Thanks for the help.


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