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MattC
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I am trying to include an &VAR into the name when redirecting an Excel report, but it appears to not work as I would expect.

I wanted to include current time after Daily Sales, but when I do this it comes up as a .zip and not the name of the program.

Has anyone else done this before?

Thanks

  ON TABLE PCHOLD AS 'Daily Sales &CHKTIME' FORMAT &WFFMT &CMPDRPT1

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Francis Mariani
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In this case try .EVAL:

ON TABLE PCHOLD AS 'Daily Sales &CHKTIME.EVAL' FORMAT &WFFMT &CMPDRPT1
I would have characters like / and : in the name.


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I tried the .EVAL as well, no luck. I was going to use underscores between the text to prevent % where the spaces are.


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Francis Mariani
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I dug around in my archive and found this, where &CONTRACTNAME is one word:

ON TABLE PCHOLD AS 'rates within canada - &CONTRACTNAME' FORMAT &WFFMT OPEN NOBREAK

This worked for me in the past.


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MattC
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Thanks Francis -

Looks like it doesn't care for the . or : in there. It works fine in HTML but going to Excel, it does not like.

I was able to get it to work like this.

-SET &HR = EDIT (15.31.16,'99$$$$$$');
-SET &MM = EDIT (15.31.16,'$$$99$$$');
-SET &SS = EDIT (15.31.16,'$$$$$$99');
-SET &Time = 15 | '_' | 31 | '_' | 16 ;
-* ON TABLE PCHOLD AS FORMAT &WFFMT &CMPDRPT1
ON TABLE PCHOLD AS 'Daily_Sales 15_31_16' FORMAT HTML


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Francis Mariani
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This has something to do with Redirection settings.

For .xmh, I set Save Report to Yes. In v7.7.05. Should be similar for 8.


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I only set XLSX to yes in there, should I set the other formats?


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My Excel test was with EXL2K, which generates XMH files, so that's the one I set. Give it a try if you're using EXL2K. It seems EXL07 generates XLSX files, so I assume the redirection would be for XLSX.


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Well they had me scrap the time portion of this and only include the report name.

I guess I am good now.

Thanks!


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Nevermind!!!!

I see the error in my ways. I have space in the string. DUH!


Any suggestions?


It appears that Excel doesn't like &VAR as is throws in % like it's a space. Look at my screenshot below. See when you open the Excel sheet it is fine, but once it is open it puts the % sign in there.


 -SET &ExcelNme   = IF '&DPVIEW.EVAL' EQ 'I' THEN ' BY_INSIDE_DAYPART' ELSE
-                  IF '&DPVIEW.EVAL' EQ 'P' THEN ' BY_PUW_DAYPART'    ELSE '';

&HOLDCMNT1.EVAL ON TABLE PCHOLD AS 'Daily_SOS&ExcelNme' FORMAT &WFFMT &CMPDRPT1





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