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Stephen
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I am looking for a way to return only the top X number of records within a group.

For example, I have two division with 400 customers each. I want to see only the top 10 customers (based on sales) for each division.

What can I add to the following ?

PRINT
DIVISION
CUSTOMER
NET SALES

BY DIVISION NO PRINT
BY NET_SALES NO PRINT


Thanks
Stephen

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Posts: 38 | Registered: May 20, 2004Report This Post
Chris Boylan
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Stephen,

You can use BY TOP n (or BY HIGHEST n), in this case BY TOP 10. If you need to summarize the NET_SALES value from multiple detail records, then this may require two passes.

Here's a sample from the CAR file:

-* FIRST CREATE SUMMARIZED DATA
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SEATS BY COUNTRY BY CAR
ON TABLE HOLD
END
-* NOW SORT SUMMARIZED DATA BY TOP RESULTS
TABLE FILE HOLD
PRINT CAR SEATS
BY COUNTRY
BY HIGHEST 2 SEATS NOPRINT END

For yours it would be:

TABLE FILE BLAH
SUM NET_SALES
BY DIVISION BY CUSTOMER
ON TABLE HOLD
END

TABLE FILE HOLD
PRINT CUSTOMER NET_SALES
BY DIVISION
BY TOP 10 NET_SALES NOPRINT
END

Hope that helps.

-Chris

p.s. - Edited to fix coding sample.
 
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Chris Boylan
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Or... if your "NET_SALES" value is already summarized, then you CAN use PRINT (not SUM):

PRINT CUSTOMER NET_SALES
BY DIVISION
BY TOP 10 NET_SALES NOPRINT

CAR file sample:

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT CAR SEATS BY COUNTRY
BY TOP 1 SEATS NOPRINT
END

Keep in mind that if there is a TIE, then you may get more than 10 CUSTOMERS on your report (more than 1 CAR in my example).

-CB
 
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Stephen
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Thanks - that worked great - i threw a HIGHEST in there before the TOP and it pulled exactly what I wanted.
 
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Chris Boylan
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quote:
Originally posted by Stephen:
[qb] Thanks - that worked great - i threw a HIGHEST in there before the TOP and it pulled exactly what I wanted. [/qb]
Great! My original summarized example was off a bit so I went back and fixed it (heh heh, gotta love the EDIT THIS POST feature) Cool

But actually "BY HIGHEST" and "BY TOP" should do exactly the same thing (they're synonyms in TABLE) - you shouldn't need both.

You can even throw in a RANKED if you want and get the numerical ranking of each record.

e.g. RANKED BY HIGHEST 10 NET_SALES NOPRINT

Try it... you'll like it. -CB
 
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umesh
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I am looking for a way to return only the Middle X number of records within a group.
 
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dwf
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Define middle x. The 10th thru 20th? Or some span of say 10 records for which there are an equal number of records above and below?


dwf
 
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susannah
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use the LIST verb instead of PRINT
and it will put a line number in the first position.
HOLD the result
then PRINT * IF LIST FROM 10 TO 20
or whatever.
"LIST" refers to variable E01



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umesh
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Thanks, i will give a try.
 
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umesh
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HI,
SUSAN, I am enconturing an error,

(FOC006) THE FORMAT OF THE TEST VALUE IS INCONSISTENT WITH FIELD FORMAT: 5;


TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES
BY HIGHEST TOTAL SALES NOPRINT
BY CAR
ON TABLE HOLD
END
-*TYPE &RECORDS;
-SET &MIDDLE = &RECORDS /2 ;
-*TYPE &MIDDLE;
TABLE FILE HOLD
LIST
CAR
SALES

ON TABLE HOLD AS HOLD01

END
TABLE FILE HOLD01
PRINT
LIST
CAR
SALES
IF LIST EQ 5;
END
 
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Piipster
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Remove the ';' after the 5. IF statements don't use ';'.


ttfn, kp


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umesh
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thanks Piipster , After removing ';' I was able to execute without error.
 
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KK
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I have a report where I need to show Top 10 Customers based on sales. I implemented that by Ranking by Highest 10.

Now I need to display
1)The top 10 customers' sales totals
2)The remaining customers' sales totals and
3)The total customers (top 10 + remaining customers) sales totals

For e.g if I have 50 customers in total,
I need display totals for top 10, remaining 40 and total(i.e. 50) customers sales.

TABLE FILE TEST
SUM

CURRENTSALES/D12C AS 'Sales'
CURRENTBP/D12C AS 'BP'

RANKED AS 'RANK' BY TOTAL HIGHEST 10 CURRENTSALES NOPRINT
BY NAME AS 'Customer'
ON TABLE COLUMN-TOTAL AS 'TOTAL'
END

Any ideas ?

Thanks.


Test - Webfocus 7.6.7
Prod - Webfocus 7.6.7
Win2003
Sql Server 2000 and 2008
 
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mgrackin
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KK,

There is a new feature in 7.6.x called OTHERS which will do exactly what you want.


Thanks!

Mickey

FOCUS/WebFOCUS 1990 - 2011
 
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mgrackin
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Here's an example directly from the IBI Documentation:

TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE
PRINT CURR_SAL LAST_NAME
BY HIGHEST 2 ED_HRS
PLUS OTHER AS 'Others'
END

ED_HRS CURR_SAL LAST_NAME
------ -------- ---------
75.00 $21,780.00 BLACKWOOD
50.00 $18,480.00 JONES
$16,100.00 MCKNIGHT
Others $165,924.00


Thanks!

Mickey

FOCUS/WebFOCUS 1990 - 2011
 
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KK
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Mickey,

I would like to use amper variables for column totals. I have to calculate Total GP% based on the Total Sales and cost. So others might not work for this case.

Do you have a sample code for this type of report.

Thank you,
KK


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Prod - Webfocus 7.6.7
Win2003
Sql Server 2000 and 2008
 
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mgrackin
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KK,

I do not understnad why you want to use amper variables for column totals. Unfortunately I do not have a 7.6 install to give you a working example. I was only posting information that I knew of. I would assume that you can apply all normal COMPUTE, SUBTOTALS, RECOMPUTEs etc. to a request using PLUS OTHER and get the results you want.


Thanks!

Mickey

FOCUS/WebFOCUS 1990 - 2011
 
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KK
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Mickey,

I apologize, what I mentioned earlier is not intended for this topic.

When I add others its adding subfoot for every sort break. This is not what I want, I want remaining 40 customers sales total. And its giving me invalid characters like @. I am not sure what is wrong.

Thank you.


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Sql Server 2000 and 2008
 
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FrankDutch
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KK

you have to this in two steps
first create a hold file with the ranking in it
then a define.

DEFINE FILE HOLD
GRP=IF RANK GT 10 THEN 1 ELSE 2;
RANK2=IF RANK GT 10 THEN 11 ELSE RANK;
NAME2/A25=IF RANK GT 10 THEN 'OTHERS' ELSE NAME;
END

TABLE FILE HOLD
CURRENTSALES/D12C AS 'Sales'
CURRENTBP/D12C AS 'BP'
BY GRP NOPRINT SUBTOTAL MULTILINES
BY RANK2
BY NAME2
ON TABLE COLUMN-TOTAL
END


END




Frank
prod: WF 7.6.10 platform Windows,
databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7
test: WF 7.6.10 on the same platform and databases,IE7

 
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ira
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create a dummy sort field for the top 10 to be 1 value and all others to be a different dummy sort value - thus effectively splitting them into distinct groups. this should help.

Ira


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wf 538(d), 537 (p),
==============
7.6.11 (t) aix 5312
websphere 6.1.19
apache 2.0
 
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ira
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My apologies, just saw frankdutch reply. much more elaborate but exactly what I was saying. kudos Frankdutch.
Ira


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wf 538(d), 537 (p),
==============
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websphere 6.1.19
apache 2.0
 
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FrankDutch
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never mind...




Frank
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databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7
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KK
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Thank you all for your suggestions. I had a deadline so didn't get a chance to research on that and had to make the changes in the sql server stored procedure to return the desired results.

Frank,
I will definitely try your approach.

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Win2003
Sql Server 2000 and 2008
 
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dhibach
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Adding on to some old posts. I am creating a top 10 with a line totalling all others. I found Frank's approach worked great, but I am wondering if the same output is possible without a Hold File.


I have tinkered with the PLUS OTHER functionality from the GUI but so far I have not been successful.

Thanks.


WF 7.6.11
Windows
Excel, HTML, and PDF.
 
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Francis Mariani
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A post from yesterday might help:

[SOLVED] Ranking and calculating totals for ALL rows

It involves a multi-verb request.


Francis


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