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slim007
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I am having trouble trying to sort my column values in a particular sequence. When I try, I end up losing the ACROSS. Can anyone help?

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mgrackin
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If you give us a bit more information about the issue we can help. Are you able to create an example of the issue with the CAR file? Music


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slim007
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I set up this sort field in the DEFINE:
SORTFIELD/I1=IF FIELD EQ 'A' THEN 0 ELSE
IF FIELD EQ 'B' THEN 1 ELSE
IF FIELD EQ 'C' THEN 2 ELSE
IF FIELD EQ 'C' THEN 3 ELSE
IF FIELD EQ 'D' THEN 4 ELSE
IF FIELD EQ 'E' THEN 5 ELSE
IF FIELD EQ 'F' THEN 6 ELSE
IF FIELD EQ 'G' THEN 7
ELSE 8;
And then I put this in my TABLE:
ACROSS XCOLUMN NOPRINT
BY SORTFIELD NOPRINT
BY XPAGE NOPRINT
BY XROW NOPRINT
ON XPAGE PAGE-BREAK
Without the "BY SORTFIELD NOPRINT", it displays 2 columns side by side. With the "BY SORTFIELD NOPRINT", it displays the first column fine but in the second column it adds 5 blank cells and then displays the field values.

Does this help?


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Leah
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Are you using PRINT or SUM? Sounds as if you are using PRINT where SUM might be what you need.


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slim007
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Yes, I am using SUM.

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Tom Flynn
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Maybe it's just me, BUT, why are you trying to use ACROSS with NOPRINT??

Again, half the code gets half an answer...

Tom


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slim007
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I am somewhat of a newbie to WebFocus. All I know is that when I use that syntax I get what I need which is the 2 columns of links without titles--that is what the customer wanted. Is there a better way of doing this?

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Tony A
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ACROSS fieldname AS ''

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Tom Flynn
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slim,

I have no idea what the other code looks like, BUT, here is an example from CAR with 2 columns as links and no titles:

  
SET NODATA = ' '
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
SALES AS ''
  COMPUTE FLAG/A1 = IF COUNTRY EQ 'JAPAN' AND SALES NE 0 THEN '1' ELSE
                    IF COUNTRY NE 'JAPAN' AND SALES NE 0 THEN '2' ELSE '3'; NOPRINT
BY COUNTRY AS ''
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=N2, URL=http://www.YAHOO.com,  WHEN=FLAG EQ '1',$
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=N2, URL=http://www.GOOGLE.com, WHEN=FLAG EQ '2',$
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=N2, URL=http://www.cnn.com, WHEN=FLAG EQ '3', COLOR=GREEN,$
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=N1, URL=http://www.informationbuilders.com,  COLOR=FIREBRICK, WHEN=FLAG EQ '1', TARGET=_blank,$
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=N1, URL=https://forums.informationbuilders.com/eve/forums,  COLOR=NAVY BLUE,WHEN=FLAG NE '1', TARGET=_blank,$
ENDSTYLE
END
-EXIT


Hope this helps, if it is what you are looking for...

Tom


Tom Flynn
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mgrackin
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slim007,

I suspect the XROW is contributing to the extra blank cells. I assume XROW is a DEFINE field as well? XROW will be calculated for every record pulled from the database BEFORE the SUM is processed. Therefore, even though it looks like certain records should be added together, you are forcing them to be treated as individual records due to the BY XROW.

Take the NOPRINT off the BY XROW statement and you will probably see this to be the issue.


Thanks!

Mickey

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