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Bethany
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I'm trying to set up my report to pass a date parameter of the SYSTEM_DATE -1


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Posts: 188 | Registered: April 14, 2005Report This Post
susannah
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Bethany, lookup the AYMD function
it adds or subtracts days from &var dates, like
-SET &YESTERDAY = AYMD ( &YYMD , -1, 'I8YYMD');
-SET &TOMORROW = AYMD ( &YYMD , 1 , 'I8YYMD');
So, you could have a variable &ADJ as a parm
-DEFAULT &ADJ = 0 ;
-SET &YESTERDAY = AYMD ( &YYMD , &ADJ * (-1), 'I8YYMD');
So if you wanted to run for last week, then your &ADJ = 7 in your caster parms.



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jodye
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Hi Bethany

I believe that we do exactly what you are trying to do with this post and your other post. Putting together the answers from Susannah and Francis...

This code will set &MYDATE to yesterday if there is no value for MYDATE passed as a param to the fex. Just make sure that when the report is run from caster, the MYDATE param is empty or not present, that way the default date used is yesterday.

-SET &ECHO=ALL;
-DEFAULTS &MYDATE='';
-SET &YESTERDAY=AYMD(&YYMD,-1,'I8');
-SET &MYDATE = IF &MYDATE EQ '' THEN &YESTERDAY ELSE &MYDATE;
-TYPE MYDATE = &MYDATE

When the report is not run from caster, a value is always passed for MYDATE, so that gets used instead of the default of yesterday.

Jodye


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Francis Mariani
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That makes sense. Cleaner.


Francis


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Bethany
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Thanks for the suggestion. Anyone know if this could work with a smart date? When the user inputs the date it's sent from the launch page as a YYMD.


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susannah
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Bethany, you can convert an I8YYMD to a smart date and vice-versa, even if they're in dialog manager form. In the 'Using Functions' manual, there's a whole chapter on dates. very enlightening. you'll get a lot of ideas from it.



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