I am trying to change the column titles for a fiscal year calendar (April - March) using "@Year"(input field) and "SEL_MONTH" (computed field). I tried
to use || concatenation but its not allowing me to do that. I was able to do same in the page heading, but its not working for the column titles.

TABLE FILE TEST
SUM
COMPUTE SEL_MONTH/A20 = IF '&IMONTH' EQ '1' THEN 'January' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '2' THEN 'February' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '3' THEN 'March' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '4' THEN 'April' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '5' THEN 'May' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '6' THEN 'June' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '7' THEN 'July' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '8' THEN 'August' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '9' THEN 'September' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '10' THEN 'October' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '11' THEN 'November' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '12' THEN 'December'; NOPRINT

'CURRENTSALES/D12C' AS 'Actual Sales' (something like this SEL_MONTH + <@Year + 'Actual Sales')
'CURRENTGP/D12.1%' AS 'Actual GP%'
'PREVSALES/D12C' AS 'Actual Sales'
'PREVACHIEVED/D12%' AS 'Achvd'
'YTDCURRENTSALES/D12C' AS 'Actual Sales'
'YTDCURRENTGP/D12.1%' AS 'Actual GP%'
'YTDPREVSALES/D12C' AS 'Actual Sales'
'YTDPREVACHIEVED/D12%' AS 'Achvd'
END

For e.g. if my selected month is June and year 2007, the report should display the column headings in the following format.

June 2007 June 2007 May 2007 May 2007 June 2006 June 2006 May 2006 May 2006
Actual Sales Actual GP% Actual Sales Achvd Actual Sales Actual GP% Actual Sales Achvd

Thanks in advance for your help.

KK

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

You can't use variable names in headers, but you can use amper variables. Here's an example of one I do for a report:

SUM
SIDFORM AS 'NU ID'
ENR_STAT AS 'Enr,Status'
FALLHOURS AS 'Enr,Status,Fall,&FALLYEAR'
SPRHOURS AS 'Enr,Status,Spring,&SPRINGYEAR'
SUMHOURS AS 'Enr,Status,Summer,&SUMYEAR'
BY ENR_STAT AS 'ENR,STATUS'

To give an idea of what you can do.

Thank you for your prompt reply. I am new to WEBFOCUS. Could you please show me how I can declare an amper variable and assign a computed field to it in my example.

KK

You can't assign a computed variable to an &var. All of the &vars are evaluated before any data is read so they can't be based on anything in the data (which would be any COMPUTEs/DEFINEs. You may have to use DEFINES to "categorize" you data into columns then use titles as determined by &variables to appropriate columns. You declare the &variable like -SET &VARNAME=&VALUE; Don't forget the semicolon at the end and include single quote marks around &VALUE if it may contain embedded blanks.

As Darin says, you can't use computes to set & variables, however you could create an &SEL_MONTH setting it with dialog manager commands, unfortunately, I don't feel expert enough in Dialog Manager to actually code you an example. DM experts please reply.

Check out this post:

Defined field in AS phrase

Thank you Leah and Darin.

I will try that. I need to do some research on how to use Dialogue Manager.

KK

Here's a rough example of how to use DM to dynamically change your column headings:
&RPT is signifying a value passed in from an html page that will control what is displayed for the column heading.

-SET &RPT = 'CALENDAR';
-SET &COL3HDR = IF &RPT EQ 'CALENDAR' THEN 'JAN SALES' ELSE 'JUN SALES';
-RUN

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT MODEL
BODYTYPE
RETAIL_COST AS '&COL3HDR.EVAL'
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 5
END

Here's the output generated from the above code:
PAGE 1

MODEL BODYTYPE JAN SALES
V12XKE AUTO CONVERTIBLE 8,878
XJ12L AUTO SEDAN 13,491
INTERCEPTOR III SEDAN 17,850
TR7 HARDTOP 5,100
B210 2 DOOR AUTO SEDAN 3,139


Hope this helps.

Linus,

Thank you. I tried your code but I am getting a "Error parsing report request" error on the set statement.

-SET &SELECTED_MONTH = IF '&IMONTH' EQ '1' THEN 'January' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '2' THEN 'February' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '3' THEN 'March' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '4' THEN 'April' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '5' THEN 'May' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '6' THEN 'June' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '7' THEN 'July' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '8' THEN 'August' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '9' THEN 'September' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '10' THEN 'October' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '11' THEN 'November' ELSE IF '&IMONTH' EQ '12' THEN 'December';
-RUN
TABLE FILE NEO_SALESMTDYTD_REPORT
SUM
SEL_MONTH NOPRINT
'NEO_SALESMTDYTD_REPORT.ANSWERSET1.CURRENTSALES/D12C'
AS 'Curr Month,bAct. Sales'
'NEO_SALESMTDYTD_REPORT.ANSWERSET1.CURRENTGP/D12.1%'
AS 'Curr Month,Act. GP%'
END
Please advise.

KK

KK
DM lines start with a '-'. Also rather than doing an IF..THEN..ELSE, a DECODE can be more effective.

I've written up both methods for you to view.

-DEFAULTS &IMONTH=3;
-SET &SELECTED_MONTH = IF &IMONTH EQ '1' THEN 'January'
-                 ELSE IF &IMONTH EQ '2' THEN 'February'
-                 ELSE IF &IMONTH EQ '3' THEN 'March'
-                 ELSE IF &IMONTH EQ '4' THEN 'April'
-                 ELSE IF &IMONTH EQ '5' THEN 'May'
-                 ELSE IF &IMONTH EQ '6' THEN 'June'
-                 ELSE IF &IMONTH EQ '7' THEN 'July'
-                 ELSE IF &IMONTH EQ '8' THEN 'August'
-                 ELSE IF &IMONTH EQ '9' THEN 'September'
-                 ELSE IF &IMONTH EQ '10' THEN 'October'
-                 ELSE IF &IMONTH EQ '11' THEN 'November'
-                 ELSE IF &IMONTH EQ '12' THEN 'December' ELSE ' ';
-TYPE &SELECTED_MONTH
-SET &SELECTED_MONTH = DECODE &IMONTH (1 January
-                                      2 February
-                                      3 March
-                                      4 April
-                                      5 May
-                                      6 June
-                                      7 July
-                                      8 August
-                                      9 September
-                                      10 October
-                                      11 November
-                                      12 December ELSE ' ');
-TYPE &SELECTED_MONTH

Yes, I agree with Alan, I would use a decode for what you are attempting to do.

Linus,

Thank you very much for the code. It worked !!.

Alan,

I will try using decode.

I am having problem exporting report to excel/ppt. This report contains three fexs (2 fexs(1 report is a graph and the other is a regular report) use 1 sql server stored proc and the third one uses a different stored procedure.) The chart is in PNG format.

When I run the report (right click run on the main report) in excel/ppt output format, it displays only the first report.

Anybody any suggestions ?

Thank you,
KK

Do some research on COMPOUND Reports