I would like to add a field's value to a graph subtitle.

I have
setSubtitleString("<YEARMONTH_NAME Consolidated Sales to Goal Graph");

the graph shows a title of literally "<YEARMONTH_NAME Consolidated Sales to Goal Graph" without evaluating the Yearmonth_Name field. I tried a .eval and got the same result.

Any ideas?

Jason

you have to put that value in an amper value and then that will work

So do something like

TABLE FILE XXX
PRINT YEARMONTH_NAME
ON TABLE HOLD AS AAA FORMAT ALPHA
END
-RUN
-READ AAA, &YMN
.....
GRAPH ...

Now you can say

setSubtitleString("&YMN.EVAL etc...");

I hope this helps

Super!

It works very well, thanks FrankDutch! One last thing, When I create this hold file, where does it go? I'm doing this in the MRE, and doing a search on the windows directory for the hold file's name 'AAA' I get nothing.

It's being rendered as 000006August for some reason, and I'm trying to figure out if the problem is in my HOLD file, or in the conversion using -READ AAA, &YEMN

Thanks!

The file is just there for a while, only for this process.
Ad the start of your program type

-SET HOLDLIST=PRINTONLY

And see if that number is gone.

I added the -SET HOLDLIST=PRINTONLY to my .fex and it still retains that 000006 in front of the August.

Ideas?

yes

change the line where you read the record

-READ AAA &FILL.A6. &YEMN.A9.

this is a fixed form read, you skip the first 6 characters.

You have to turn VARCHAR off. If your database was Oracle you use:
SQL SQLORA SET VARCHAR OFF
If its SQL Server it is
SQL SQLMSS SET VARCHAR OFF
or
ENGINE SQLMSS SET VARCHAR OFF
etc.

Per your advice, I went ahead and changed my master file from A30V to an A30, it works now.

I'm amazed at how often I have to do that but I forget about it. I guess it's just the cost of having a tool that can use anything as a datasource.

Thanks for the help folks.