I'm having trouble adding a level of sorting for my calculated column "MARPER" to my report with the columns:

PL_DESCRIPTION AS 'Product Line'
CUSTOMER_NAME AS 'Customer'
JOB_DESCRIPTION AS 'Job Address'
ORDER_NUM AS 'Ticket #'
ITEM_NUM AS 'SKU'
ITEM_DESCRIPTION AS 'Item Description'
INVOICE_DATE AS 'Invoice Date'
EXT_SALES_DOLLARS/D11BM AS 'Actual,Sales'
COMPUTE MARPER/D11.2B%S = ((EXT_SALES_DOLLARS - EXT_ACT_COST_COMM)/EXT_SALES_DOLLARS)*100; AS 'Margin,Act %'

BY SALESPERSON_NUM NOPRINT
BY CUSTOMER_NAME NOPRINT

I can add additional levels of sorting to any other column and it works fine, but when I add:

BY MARPER

...it doesn't sort by margin like I would expect it to.

I need to sort by customer name, then by margin within each customer. What's the trick?

Thanks.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: <Kathryn Henning>,

Try BY TOTAL MARPER

Thank you for the reply Waz, but that didn't work. BTW, my report is using the EXL07 format (although I tried EXL2K with the same result).

I also tried calculating an additional column called "Rank" that used a version of the margin formula to add as the 3rd sorting column but it didn't work either.

What am I missing?

quote:

Originally posted by Deej:
my report is using the EXL07 format

Actually... I'm going to have to keep it in EXL2K format because I need to burst the report through Report Caster and EXL07 doesn't support bursting.

If I remove one of the two levels of sorting above the MARPER column it sorts correctly.

Works:
BY SALESPERSON_NUM NOPRINT
-*BY CUSTOMER_NAME NOPRINT
BY TOTAL MARPER

Works:
-*BY SALESPERSON_NUM NOPRINT
BY CUSTOMER_NAME NOPRINT
BY TOTAL MARPER

It even sorts correctly when I move MARPER to the 2nd level of sorting.

Works:
BY SALESPERSON_NUM NOPRINT
BY TOTAL MARPER
BY CUSTOMER_NAME NOPRINT

But it still won't sort correctly when I put MARPER as the third level.

Doesn't work:
BY SALESPERSON_NUM NOPRINT
BY CUSTOMER_NAME NOPRINT
BY TOTAL MARPER

Is there something that has to do with the 3rd level being a computed/calculated column?

Glad to see it wasn't just me making a mistake.

Please post your whole code.

Thanks Martin!

-SET &YESTER = DATECVT((DATEADD((DATECVT(&YYMD,'I8YYMD','YYMD')), 'M', -1)), 'YYMD','I8YYMD');
-SET &JMTH = LCWORD(9, CHGDAT('YYMD','MX',&YESTER,'A9'), 'A9');
-SET &JYRX = EDIT(&YESTER,'9999$$$$');

TABLE FILE MONTHLY_MARGIN_BY_SALESPERSON_OUTSIDE_VW
PRINT

	PL_DESCRIPTION AS 'Product Line'
	CUSTOMER_NAME AS 'Customer'
	JOB_DESCRIPTION AS 'Job Address'
	ORDER_NUM AS 'Ticket #'
	ITEM_NUM AS 'SKU'
	ITEM_DESCRIPTION AS 'Item Description'
	INVOICE_DATE AS 'Invoice Date'
	EXT_SALES_DOLLARS/D11BM AS 'Actual,Sales'
	COMPUTE MARPER/D11.2B%S = ((EXT_SALES_DOLLARS - EXT_ACT_COST_COMM)/EXT_SALES_DOLLARS)*100; AS 'Margin,Act %'

BY SALESPERSON_NUM NOPRINT
BY CUSTOMER_NAME NOPRINT
BY TOTAL MARPER




ON SALESPERSON_NUM PAGE-BREAK REPAGE

" "
HEADING
"Monthly Margin by Salesperson -- <SALESPERSON_NAME -- &JMTH.EVAL &JYRX.EVAL"
FOOTING
"&DATE<+0> <+0>&TOD<+0>                                                       Matrix/Dashboard/Monthly Margin by Salesperson - Outside.fex

ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE SET BYDISPLAY ON
ON TABLE SUMMARIZE AS 'Total'
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K

ON TABLE SET STYLE *
     UNITS=IN,
     PAGESIZE='Letter',
     LEFTMARGIN=0.000000,
     RIGHTMARGIN=0.000000,
     TOPMARGIN=0.000000,
     BOTTOMMARGIN=0.000000,
     SQUEEZE=ON,
     ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,

$
TYPE=REPORT,
     FONT='ARIAL',
     SIZE=10,
     COLOR='BLACK',
     BACKCOLOR='NONE',
     STYLE=NORMAL,
$
TYPE=DATA,
     SIZE=8,
     BACKCOLOR=( RGB(234 234 255) 'WHITE' ),
$

TYPE=TITLE,
     BORDER-TOP=LIGHT,
     BORDER-BOTTOM=LIGHT,
     BORDER-LEFT=LIGHT,
     BORDER-RIGHT=LIGHT,
     SIZE=9,
     COLOR='WHITE',
     BACKCOLOR=RGB(147 172 219),
     STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=TABHEADING,	SIZE=9,		BACKCOLOR=RGB(229 229 229),		STYLE=BOLD,$
TYPE=TABFOOTING,	SIZE=9,		BACKCOLOR=RGB(229 229 229),		STYLE=BOLD,$
TYPE=HEADING,		SIZE=9,		BACKCOLOR=RGB(232 232 232),		STYLE=BOLD,$
TYPE=FOOTING,		SIZE=9,		BACKCOLOR=RGB(229 229 229),$
TYPE=SUBHEAD,
     SIZE=9,
     STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=SUBFOOT,
     BORDER-TOP=LIGHT,
     BORDER-BOTTOM=LIGHT,
     BORDER-LEFT=LIGHT,
     BORDER-RIGHT=LIGHT,
     SIZE=8,
     COLOR='WHITE',
     BACKCOLOR=RGB(147 172 219),
     STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=SUBTOTAL,
     SIZE=8,
     STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=ACROSSVALUE,
     SIZE=8,
     STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=ACROSSTITLE,
     SIZE=8,
     STYLE=BOLD,
$
TYPE=GRANDTOTAL,
     SIZE=9,
     STYLE=BOLD,
$

ENDSTYLE
END

So the full code didn't help?

Try moving the compute into the by syntax -

BY TOTAL COMPUTE MARPER/D............ Etc.

T

Thanks for the idea Tony. I actually hadn't tried that and was excited to try it.

Unfortunately, it didn't work either.

It did, however, put the lines which had zeros for margins at the top... just didn't sort the rest. It also didn't seem to differentiate between the MARPER in the PRINT statement and the MARPER in the BY statement, which I thought was interesting.

I put NOPRINT behind the BY statement (same as with the CUSTOMER_NAME) and the margin didn't print at all on the report. If I removed the NOPRINT, it printed the Margin Act in the last column and the MARPER at the first column.

I changed to BY MARPER COMPUTE NOPRINT and it printed the margin account, but still no sorting.

I'm stuck.

I don't see why your code shouldn't work, but...

Since this is a non-aggregating (PRINT) request, you don't need to use COMPUTE at all.

Declare MARPER in a DEFINE FILE first, and then just reference it like any other incoming data item.

quote:

Originally posted by j.gross:
I don't see why your code shouldn't work, but...

Since this is a non-aggregating (PRINT) request, you don't need to use COMPUTE at all.

Declare MARPER in a DEFINE FILE first, and then just reference it like any other incoming data item.

That WORKED! Thank you so much!