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TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES BY COUNTRY ACROSS SEATS
AND COMPUTE whatever/I8=C3-C2;
END
...
Report Assist doesn't seem to recognize the C reference when using The Compute button
to get some margin calculation.
That can't be true, can it?
How do i teach users to , say, calculate a growth rate across 2 years using JUST the RA.
?

looking at the fex that gets created...
RA puts the COMPUTE statement before the ACROSS, so there's no way to calculate a margin value in an ACROSS.
That's just GOTTA be fixed. RA has GOT to be smart enough to deliver 2 kinds of COMPUTEs, before the across and/or after the across. Does anybody have a spark of genius?

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I've never tried it with across, but C references in computes are tied to column values, so in your example C1 is sales, so are you wanting to do it on the first two columns of the across?


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If you code this by hand and reopen the fex in RA the code is removed, so it seems to be not supported....




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RA has GOT to be smart enough to deliver 2 kinds of COMPUTEs

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I do know that it will give a correct compute on the field names rather than column references, but I've also used column references and I'm sure it was in RA. Dev Studio has fits at times.


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Have you tried
ON TABLE HOLD AS HOLD_THIS FORMAT ALPHA
or even the ON TABLE RECOMPUTE option


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