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hainguyen
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Whenever we sort fields, those fields will be put at the first columns. How can I sort second column and keep the first column as original?

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WebFOCUS 7.7.03
Windows, All Outputs
 
Posts: 125 | Registered: June 17, 2013Report This Post
jvb
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Multiverb report can be a workaround.Please review the sample code below, this may help:
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM
MODEL
BY COUNTRY
PRINT
CAR
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
TYPE=REPORT, COLUMN=CAR, SEQUENCE=1, $
TYPE=REPORT, COLUMN=MODEL, SEQUENCE=2, $
TYPE=REPORT, COLUMN=COUNTRY, SEQUENCE=3, $
ENDSTYLE

END


WF 8.1.04,Infoassist,Oracle, Excel, PDF,HTML.
 
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Danny-SRL
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JVB,
quote:

SUM
MODEL
BY COUNTRY
PRINT
CAR

This won't work because you must repeat the sort fields in a multi-set request.

hainguyen,
Here is a simple solution:
  
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COUNTRY
CAR
SALES
BY CAR NOPRINT
END

Here is a more complex one:
  
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COUNTRY NOPRINT
COMPUTE XCOUNTRY/A10=IF COUNTRY EQ LAST COUNTRY THEN ' ' ELSE COUNTRY; AS COUNTRY
CAR NOPRINT
COMPUTE XCAR/A16=IF CAR EQ LAST CAR THEN ' ' ELSE CAR; AS CAR
SALES
BY CAR NOPRINT
END


Daniel
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Wep5622
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Apparently your first field is in some sort order that you like, but didn't specify explicitly.
The solution is to explicitly specify the sort order of your first field and then apply the sorting on your second field.

Sometimes that requires computing a sort field for the first field and use that as the first BY field with a NOPRINT to hide it.

For example:
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
	MODEL
	COMPUTE SORT/I3 = LAST SORT + 1; NOPRINT
BY TOTAL SORT NOPRINT
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
END


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hainguyen
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Thanks a lot for all suggestions. I tried the simple solution of Danny and it works great. Simple but effective.


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getit
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In Dannys example,

 

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COUNTRY NOPRINT
COMPUTE XCOUNTRY/A10=IF COUNTRY EQ LAST COUNTRY THEN ' ' ELSE COUNTRY; AS COUNTRY
CAR NOPRINT
COMPUTE XCAR/A16=IF CAR EQ LAST CAR THEN ' ' ELSE CAR; AS CAR
SALES
BY CAR NOPRINT
END


How do we turn off the borders for the COLUMNS COUNTRY AND CAR AND display them like when we use the BYDISPLAY off.?


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