I am trying to add up the amount values and display that in the footer. The amount value is an SQLOUT output from Postgres and is of I11 format

-* amount                 E11           I11

I tried converting it into Packed Decimal using ITOPACK but ran across syntax errors. What I want to eventually do is calculate the sum and then display that in the report footer as follows

  
MAINFOOTER/A122 = 'TRANSACTIONS    '| DATE | AMOUNT;

Where can I exactly carry out the calculation and display it? (in place of AMOUNT in the above line) I tried doing a SUM(amount) but it complains that it cannot understand the expression

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Did you get som basic training. Got any documentation?

Do you know how to build a basic report on a database.
What was the code you tried and what exactly was the error?
There is so much , but where can we start....

WebFOCUS doesn't do implicit type casts, so you can't just concatenate alpha and numeric values like that. You'll first have to convert the numeric values to alphanumeric, for example using EDIT or FPRINT.

What are you trying to achieve by converting that integer into packed decimal?

Hi guys,

sorry for the delay. figured a way out.

I was thinking converting to packed decimal might work for sum but i can do it using integer. simply by creating a define and then reading it

Something along the lines of

TABLE FILE CITYLINKHOLD
SUM amount/I9L
ON TABLE SAVE AS SAVE1
END
-RUN

-READ SAVE1 &SUMVALUE.A9.
-RUN

  

Still getting use to the focus language! will get there soon.