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Fernando
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I am building a screen in the HTML painter. It contains a list that is a multiple select called MBY.

I have built the fex to receive the variable MBY as a multiple using AND.

When I select two items I get:
'CAR' AND 'COUNTRY'
in MBY.

It has quotes around the items and an AND in-between.

I want to build a by not a where using the passed in values.

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
BY &MBY
END

This fails since

BY 'CAR' AND 'COUNTRY'

is a syntax error.

How can I get the html page to pass
BY CAR BY COUNTRY instead of 'CAR' AND 'COUNTRY'?

Note: If I add 'BY ' to the begining of my values in the list box then I get:
'BY CAR' AND 'BY COUNTRY'
which still fails.

Fernando
WF 7.13


Prod WF 8.1.04, QA WF 8.2.03, Dev WF 8.2.03
 
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Alan B
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Use STRREP. I would keep the BY bit in as it helps:
-SET &MBY = '''' | 'BY CAR' |''''| ' AND ' | '''' | 'BY COUNTRY' | '''';
-TYPE &MBY
-SET NEWL=&MBY.LENGTH-3;
-SET &MBY = STRREP (&MBY.LENGTH, &MBY, 7, ' AND ', 1, ' X' , &NEWL, 'A&MBY.LENGTH');
-TYPE &MBY
-SET &MBY = STRREP (&MBY.LENGTH, &MBY, 7, '''', 1, ' X' , &NEWL, 'A&MBY.LENGTH');
-TYPE &MBY


Alan.
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j.gross
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You don't need to unquote the fieldnames.

By and large Focus tolerates quoted fieldnames and keywords, at least in TABLE.

Try this:

TABLE FILE 'CAR'
'SUM' 'SEATS' 'BY' 'CAR' 'ACROSS' 'COUNTRY'
END
 
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Alan B
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You can indeed, in which case don't use the BY option and just replace the AND with a BY. If you keep the BY in, the problem is the quotes are round the both verb and object 'BY CAR'.
Whichever, STRREP can help.


Alan.
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Danny-SRL
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It would be nicer, and make for better readability, if one could get a list of variables:
Parameter   with value
&MBY0       2
&MBY1       CAR
&MBY2       COUNTRY

And then in the FOEXEC a simple loop:
-REPEAT #LOOP FOR &I FROM 1 TO &MBY0;
BY &MBY.&I
-#LOOP

As of now, STRREP is the answer. I would use OR instead of AND for the multiple valued variable and for the function:
-SET &MBYL=&MBY.LENGTH;
-SET &MBY=STRREP(&MBYL, &MBY, 2 ,'OR', 2, 'BY', &MBLY, 'A&MBYL.EVAL');

And leave the TABLE command with its BY:

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CAR
BY &MBY
END

This takes care of the user choosing only 1 value.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Danny-SRL,


Daniel
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wf 8.202M/Win10/IIS/SSA - WrapApp Front End for WF

 
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GCohen
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The 'connector' is part of the &er syntax.
So if you want a 'BY' separator..

&MBY.( BY (COUNTRY , CAR, RETAIL )).Select


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Fernando
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Gerald,

Thanks for the reply. I tried it and found that I had to remove the .Select otherwise I get
BY CAR.Select when I select CAR.

However, I am only getting CAR and CAR COUNTRY when select both CAR and COUNTRY.

Fernando


Prod WF 8.1.04, QA WF 8.2.03, Dev WF 8.2.03
 
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