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pink
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hi everybody,

Problem:-

I don't want to show the value of a column when its equal to a particular value, like
don't want to display the value of Retail_cost when Retail_cost equals 10000..

I used "white color trick", as suggested in earlier posts, but in that case when i m selecting that particular cell, it is highlighting the text there.
So i cannot use "white color trick", i just want the text to disappear permanently from the desired cell i.e. no value not even '0'

guys plz help its pretty urgent..

Thanks in advance..

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pink
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forgot to mention, i m displaying the output report in EXL2K format
sorry..


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Charlz
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Hi Pink,

WebFOCUS is interpreted, so it can 'self-modify' its own code.

You may be able to this technique to put the code into a variable that 'disappears' conditionally.

I have not used this but I have seen it used, and thought it was a fascinating concept.
It now seems that it may help you do what you are asking.

I hope this helps even a little ?

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nubi
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perhaps a WHEN statement in the style sheet code for the column? when over 10000 make column width 0? should alieviate any selecti0on problems

but i would probably use DM to do an alternative pass against the data..


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pink
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Hi Nubi,

Sorry, I didn't get u.

Can u plz elaborate what u mean to say..


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nubi
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its not going to work- it didn't think it through - you will need to use DM as every value could be different


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<JG>
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You really must get some basic training, this is as simple a request as you can possibly ask.

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COMPUTE MYSALES/I9 MISSING ON=IF SALES EQ 43000 THEN MISSING ELSE SALES;
SALES BY MODEL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K
END
 
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Use COMPUTE to make the value MISSING when equal to your target value (e.g. the one you want to make "disappear"). Easy when you think about what you really need to do.

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM DCOST NOPRINT
    COMPUTE DC/D20.2 MISSING ON = IF DCOST EQ 10000 THEN MISSING ELSE DCOST; AS DEALER_COST
 BY COUNTRY
 BY CAR
 BY MODEL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K
ON TABLE SET PAGE NOLEAD
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
  GRID=OFF, SIZE=9, $
ENDSTYLE
END

T


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Tony A
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Looks like JG pipped me to the "post" Wink

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pink
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Thanks a lot JG and Tony for spending ur valuable time..

JG- I am just 20 days old as far as working on webfocus is concerned, i already had training, but now i think it was not that basic. You ppl saved the day for me.


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Doug
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Add : SET NODATA = ' ' to change the default "." to a space (to Tony's and JG's code) so that you will see nothing instead of the period.

Or, even easier, add the S to suppress the zero in the field format as in this code:
COMPUTE TempCost/D12.2MS = IF RETAIL_COST EQ 6820 THEN 0 ELSE RETAIL_COST; AS 'Dealer Cost'

PS 1: That would be WebFOCUS instead of webfocus - just FYI. Unfortunately, license plates don't accept mixed case characters.
PS 2: Thanks Charlz for your insight.

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<JG>
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The nodata character behaves differently in Excel in different releases of WebFocus.

In most cases Excel does not display the nodata character.

Using 0 suppression has the unfortunate side effect that genuine 0's are also suppressed.
 
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If '0 suppression' applies to ALL columns, can '0 suppression' be restricted to specified columns, allowing genuine 0's that you do want to be displayed in other columns ?

Does this apply to NODATA as well ?

Thanks


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Waz
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Another option, which is more work, but more versatile, is to convert the value to text.

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM DCOST NOPRINT
    COMPUTE DC/A26 = IF DCOST EQ 10000 THEN ' ' ELSE PTOA(DCOST,'(P20.2C)','A26'); AS DEALER_COST
 BY COUNTRY
 BY CAR
 BY MODEL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K
ON TABLE SET PAGE NOLEAD
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
  GRID=OFF, SIZE=9, $
  TYPE=REPORT, COLUMN=DC, JUSTIFY=RIGHT, $
ENDSTYLE
END


The only issue is the nasty warning of number stored as text.


Waz...

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JG: Thanks for that insight. It looked good here, on my system.
 
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pink
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Thanks to all for the valuable suggestions and knowledge enhancing discussion.

JG & Tony's solution just worked fine for me.


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nubi
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glad you got it working Pink.

cheers


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