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jammer
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I thought with the the code below if I selected only a car without a country I would get all countries with that car for example

Country Car
No Selection Jensen

Report World be
Country Car
England Jenen

Instead I get all countries - all models

Am I oversimplifying things. How do I do with autoprompting two multiselects where if I just enter stuff into second box it works correctly.

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TABLE FILE CAR
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
HEADING
""
FOOTING
""
WHERE ( COUNTRY EQ &COUNTRY.(OR(FIND COUNTRY IN CAR)).COUNTRY. ) AND ( CAR EQ &CAR.(OR(FIND CAR IN CAR)).CAR. );
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
END

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Fernando
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Jammer,

This sounds like FOC_NOE is getting you. I'm betting that when you don't select a country FOC_NONE is passed or is the default. if this is the case then the entire line:

WHERE ( COUNTRY EQ &COUNTRY.(OR(FIND COUNTRY IN CAR)).COUNTRY. ) AND ( CAR EQ &CAR.(OR(FIND CAR IN CAR)).CAR. );


is skipped.

Try splitting it into 2 lines:

WHERE ( COUNTRY EQ &COUNTRY.(OR(FIND COUNTRY IN CAR)).COUNTRY. );
WHERE ( CAR EQ &CAR.(OR(FIND CAR IN CAR)).CAR. );


The AND is implied due to the 2 where statements.

Fernando


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jammer
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Interesting.. you are correct



I would have thought my statements and your's broken up where equivalent. (actually it is a little worrisome since, I never expected them to behave different.)

I notice in dev stdio when you split the where clause you can select either one in the "Where Assist" but you can't create a new "where" within the assist.

Or restated - I can say I could not create the two where clauses in the graphic tool. (Another thing not possible in the graphic tool!)


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dhagen
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Yes you can. Do the country where with the assist, then click ok when done. You can then select new in the where dialog box, and open a new assist window for car.


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jammer
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I stand corrected - thanks again


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Darin Lee
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The problem you are seeing is a little glitch with the way they have implemented the FOC_NONE functionality. When the request is parsed, if it finds the value FOC_NONE anywhere in the selection, the whole selection is ignored (commented out, basically). So if you have a compound where, it ignores everything, regardles of the AND or OR. The solution, as mentioned, is to break it into two separate WHERE statements, which use an implicit AND.


Regards,

Darin


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