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jjeanjaquet
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I am witness to an interesting problem that I can't figure out. The boss upstairs wanted the day of the week in addition to the date. I created a define field in the master file to take the DOWK(DATE,'A3'), and I inserted the field as a "BY" in the Report Painter. When I ran the report, the correct output from November 1 - Nov 15 is displayed (Sun, Mon, Tue, etc.), but from every date from then on, the field is empty.
It makes no sense, so I was wondering if anyone had encountered this error, and more importantly, if anyone knows what the problem might be.

Thanks

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Waz
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What format is the DATE field ?

DOWK requires a date in I6YMD or I8YYMD format.


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All OK in 7.7.01 using the following code. Test it on your 7.7.02 set-up and if you have any problems then I would recommend giving IB support a call.

EX -LINES 3 EDAPUT MASTER,DATERNG,CF,MEM,FILENAME=DATERNG, SUFFIX=FOC,$
SEGNAME=SEG1
FIELD=DATE_KEY, ,DMYY ,DMYY , $
-RUN
-* Now create it
CREATE FILE DATERNG
-* and add all possible dates within a month
MODIFY FILE DATERNG
FREEFORM DATE_KEY.A8.
LOG FORMAT MSG OFF
LOG TRANS MSG OFF
LOG INVALID MSG OFF
DATA
-* This repeat loop will ensure at least a whole month is input,
-* Any invalid dates will be rejected.
-DEFAULT &Year  = 2010
-SET &Year  = EDIT(&YYMD,'9999$');
-SET &Mnth = 11;
-SET &Day   = 1;
-REPEAT :Loop1 31 TIMES;
-SET &Date = IF &Day LT 10 THEN '0' || &Day ELSE &Day;
&Date&Mnth&Year
-SET &Day = &Day + 1;
-:Loop1
END
-RUN
-*
DEFINE FILE DATERNG
  KEY_YYMD/I8YYMD = DATE_KEY;
  DOW/A3          = DOWK(KEY_YYMD,'A3');
END
-*
TABLE FILE DATERNG
PRINT DOW
   BY DATE_KEY
ON TABLE SET PAGE NOLEAD
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
  GRID=OFF, SIZE=10, $
ENDSTYLE
END

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Kerry
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Thanks Waz and Tony for the input.

jjeanjaquet, suggestion from our technicals:

If the date field is a smart date field then you can take advantage of the date formatting of W for day of the week.
Here is an example:

DEFINE FILE EMPDATA
HIREDATEDOW/Wt=HIREDATE;
END
TABLE FILE EMPDATA
SUM CNT.PIN
BY HIREDATEDOW
END


Cheers,

Kerry


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jjeanjaquet
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Thanks everbody. I did what Kerry suggested and used the date format "Wt" instead of creating an expression using DOWK() and that seems to have done the trick.

Much appreciated,

Joe


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Waz
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At least we now know it was a Smart Date field.

Many options available.


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