Is there a way that you can assign parameter(s) values to variables so the parameter values can be include in the output of a report.

Example:

TABLE FILE CENTORD
PRINT
'CENTORD.OINFO.ORDER_NUM'
'CENTORD.STOSEG.STORENAME'
'CENTORD.OINFO.DATE_ORDERED'
'CENTORD.INVSEG.PRICE'
WHERE ( CENTORD.OINFO.DATE_ORDERED GE '&SD.START.' ) AND ( CENTORD.OINFO.DATE_ORDERED LE '&ED.END.' );
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM OFF
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
UNITS=IN,
SQUEEZE=ON,
ORIENTATION=PORTRAIT,
$
TYPE=REPORT,
GRID=OFF,
FONT='ARIAL',
SIZE=9,
$
ENDSTYLE
END



Entering 10/19/2001 for &SD and &ED results in the following output

Order Number: Store Name: DATE_ORDERED Price:
48219 Web Sales 10/19/2001 899.00
48219 Web Sales 10/19/2001 109.00
48219 Web Sales 10/19/2001 89.00
48219 Web Sales 10/19/2001 499.00
48219 Web Sales 10/19/2001 299.00

What I would like to do is to include the report parameters values in the output so the output would look like the following:

Order Number: Store Name: DATE_ORDERED Price: Param1 Param2
48219 Web Sales 10/19/2001 899.00 10/19/2001 10/19/2001
48219 Web Sales 10/19/2001 109.00 10/19/2001 10/19/2001
48219 Web Sales 10/19/2001 89.00 10/19/2001 10/19/2001
48219 Web Sales 10/19/2001 499.00 10/19/2001 10/19/2001
48219 Web Sales 10/19/2001 299.00 10/19/2001 10/19/2001

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kerry,

How about assigning the parameter to a define field and call that Define field in your table request.


Rao.

Francis has better solution performance wise.

Rao.

Thanks Francis! It worked just as you stated. I had spent hours going through on-line documentation, scouring over messages in the WebFocus forums and had even tried using the Compute to assign the parameter values to a variable but kept getting errors. Looking at your solution the main problem was I was not using the ' ' around the &SD and &ED field names.

I was strictly using the menu options in WebFocus to create a Compute variable but when I clicked on the &SD and &ED fields to assign to variables, the ' ' are not automatically placed around the variable as per your suggestion.

Thanks again for your assistance.

P.S. Are you aware if the use of the ' ' around the variables is documented in any of the WebFocus manuals. I've searched but didn't come up with any hits.

Jeff

Jeff,

If you think of it logically then the value you had for your variable would be interpretted as a calculation if not surrounded by single quotes. This result (numeric) would then be rejected as incompatable data type for an alpha field.

If you had specified a MDYY field then you may have had success.

T