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Tim P.
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Is there a way to take a date like:

May 25, 2018

and convert it to YYMD or MDYY in WF8105 dialogue manager? I feel like there should be an easy way to do this but for the life of me i can't seem to get the function right.

Thanks for the help!

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WebFOCUS App Studio 8.2.02
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BabakNYC
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You'll have to decompose all the components using character functions first, and then assemble them into the YYMD. This would involve DECODE of the Month into the 2 digit month number. I'd start with SUBSTR and go from there.

How bad do you need this? It's a lot of code.


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Tim P.
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yea decomposing the date and the concantenating it back together was about the only way i got close to what i needed.

It's not critical right now as i'm just fiddling around in the new 8203 portal page designer. If your content is driven by a date parameter, the control is predicated on that parameter but the default format in the control is as above and i don't see a way to change it.


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Edward Wolfgram
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FOCUS has supported something called "natural dates" (constants) from forever, but to my knowledge this is not exposed in a user function. The code below will work on most platforms: 

-DEFAULTS &INDATE = 'Jan 1, 2018' ;
FI MYFEX DISK myfex.fex (LRECL 80
DEFINE FILE CAR
MYDT/YYMD WITH COUNTRY = '&INDATE' ;
MYA/A8YYMD = MYDT ;
ACMD/A80 = '-SET ' | '&&' | 'WOW=' | '''' | MYA | '''' | ';' ;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT ACMD
IF RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
ON TABLE SAVE AS MYFEX
END
-RUN
EX MYFEX
-RUN
-TYPE DATE IS &&WOW
-EXIT


Once you have the global variable &&WOW, you can use any of the date functions from dialog mgr to get any date you want.


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Tim P.
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Yea it looks like using the car file (or any other small temp table) may be the only way. I was kind of hoping for a solution that didn't involve bringing in a table but oh well.
Thanks for the help!


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dbeagan
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This could be a way to go: 
 

-DEFAULT &Date1 = 'May 25, 2018';

 DEFINE FUNCTION TODATE(null/I1)
 DTEMDYY/MDYY = '&Date1';
 TODATE/A8MDYY = DTEMDYY;
 END
-RUN

-SET &Date2 = TODATE(.);
-TYPE &Date1 --> &Date2


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