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jseaburn
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The sales transactions in our database all have a "sales source" attached to them. Right now, the guided ad-hoc tool we have built defaults to certain sales sources only. We have a request to open up all sales sources to the user. However, most of the time they will only need these "default sales sources"

I've thought through a couple ways to do this..Radio buttons - 1 for default, the other would be selected and then that would open up a multi-select list of available sales sources to choose from (chaining?). The second way is to list all 9 sources as checkboxes, with the first one being 'default'.

I would have to dynamically build the WHERE statement on what the user chooses, but I'm having trouble with this.

Any guidance or suggestions are greatly appreciated!

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


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Posts: 90 | Registered: November 03, 2009Report This Post
dburton
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If I am understanding your question right, you are looking to build a WHERE clause that can change based on the user input. The input can be either a Multi-select List box or a number of different check boxes. I have pasted some code below that should help you build a dynamic WHERE clause.

The first code here is for a Multi-select listbox.

 
-DEFAULT &MULTIVAR = ' ';

-SET &MULTIVAR = IF &MULTIVAR EQ ' ' THEN 'FOC_NONE' ELSE UPCASE(75,&MULTIVAR,&MULTIVAR);

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT 
     'CAR.CARREC.MODEL'
     'CAR.BODY.BODYTYPE'
BY 'CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY'
BY 'CAR.COMP.CAR'
HEADING
""
FOOTING
""
WHERE CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY EQ &MULTIVAR;
END


The next set of code is for multiple checkbox options.
 
-DEFAULT &VAR1 = ' ';
-DEFAULT &VAR2 = ' ';
-DEFAULT &VAR3 = ' ';
-DEFAULT &VAR4 = ' ';


-SET &VAR1 = IF &VAR1 EQ ' ' THEN 'FOC_NONE' ELSE UPCASE(20,&VAR1,&VAR1);
-SET &VAR2 = IF &VAR2 EQ ' ' THEN 'FOC_NONE' ELSE UPCASE(20,&VAR2,&VAR2);
-SET &VAR3 = IF &VAR3 EQ ' ' THEN 'FOC_NONE' ELSE UPCASE(20,&VAR3,&VAR3);
-SET &VAR4 = IF &VAR4 EQ ' ' THEN 'FOC_NONE' ELSE UPCASE(20,&VAR4,&VAR4);

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT 
     'CAR.CARREC.MODEL'
     'CAR.BODY.BODYTYPE'
BY 'CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY'
BY 'CAR.COMP.CAR'
HEADING
""
FOOTING
""
WHERE CAR.ORIGIN.COUNTRY EQ '&VAR1.EVAL' OR '&VAR2.EVAL' OR '&VAR3.EVAL' OR '&VAR4.EVAL';
END


I hope this helps.

Thanks,
Dave


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