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bchinnap
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Hi,
Can somebody tell me how to retrieve and display just the year from the date field. The data is coming from Oracle.

Thanks for the help
 
Posts: 30 | Registered: September 21, 2004Report This Post
Leah
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Displaying year:

You might try a compute or define where TODAYS is your oracle date.

TODAYY/YY = TODAYS;
 
Posts: 1317 | Location: Council Bluffs, IA | Registered: May 24, 2004Report This Post
bchinnap
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I have tried that in a define
TransactionYear/YY = LOCL_TRAN_DATE; where LOCL_TRAN_DATE is the date field from oracle.
But I am getting this error:
(FOC282) RESULT OF EXPRESSION IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE FORMAT OF FIELD: TransactionYear
Also I need the 4-digit year
 
Posts: 30 | Registered: September 21, 2004Report This Post
j.gross
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How is LOCL_TRAN_DATE declared in the MFD?
 
Posts: 1925 | Location: NYC | In FOCUS since 1983 | Registered: January 11, 2005Report This Post
drew billingslea
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you might try:

CDATE/YY = HDATE(CYCLE_D,'YY') ;

where CYCLE_D is the Oracle data column name, if you are getting the date from SQL passthrough or whatever.

hth,

drew
 
Posts: 46 | Location: San Francisco, California | Registered: April 14, 2003Report This Post
bchinnap
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LOCL_TRAN_DATE is defined as HYYMDS.
I have already done one convertion to remove the time part with this command:
TransactionDate/MDYY= HDATE( LOCL_TRAN_DATE ,'MDYY' );
 
Posts: 30 | Registered: September 21, 2004Report This Post
Leah
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My experience is with DB2 fields and if I put in the

TransactionYear/YY = BIRTH_DT;

Against one of tables I get the year just fine when printed. So is it a 'smart date'?

This is under WebFOCUS 5.3.3
 
Posts: 1317 | Location: Council Bluffs, IA | Registered: May 24, 2004Report This Post
Leah
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What happens if
I have already done one convertion to remove the time part with this command:
TransactionDate/MDYY= HDATE( LOCL_TRAN_DATE ,'MDYY' );

is changed to
I have already done one convertion to remove the time part with this command:
TransactionDate/MDYY= HDATE( LOCL_TRAN_DATE ,'YYMD' );
 
Posts: 1317 | Location: Council Bluffs, IA | Registered: May 24, 2004Report This Post
drew billingslea
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since you already have a smart date field defined with the date you could:

TRAN_YEAR/YY = TransactionDate;

hth,

drew
 
Posts: 46 | Location: San Francisco, California | Registered: April 14, 2003Report This Post
bchinnap
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That worked Drew !

Thanks
 
Posts: 30 | Registered: September 21, 2004Report This Post
Piipster
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I just spotted this on the Education Web Site ...

eLearning Seminar on the Date/Time datatype.

http://education.informationbuilders.com/jsp/edu/e_courseCatalog.jsp.
 
Posts: 346 | Location: Melbourne Australia | Registered: April 15, 2003Report This Post
webfocuspgm
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Drew,
Thanks your input helped me fix my problem too.
 
Posts: 132 | Location: Kansas | Registered: November 12, 2003Report This Post
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