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DWaybright
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I have a parameterized report and I want to use the selected parms in the header, so I've got some set commands to make the header pretty but sometimes I get unprintable characters in the parms which messes everything up. I've tried using POSITION and PATTERN to figure out where the characters are so I could maybe substring them out, but I'm getting errors.
Here is the code and the ECHO ALL mess. I've checked and rechecked the code; there are no unbalanced parenthesis in the code.

TABLE FILE pol_active
SUM POL_ACTIVE.COUNTER AS 'Cnt'
COMPUTE c_Percent_of_Total/D12.2=POL_ACTIVE.COUNTER/TOT.D_Active * 100 ; AS 'Tot%'
BY d_Ded_Category AS 'Category'
BY D_DED_CAT_TEXT AS 'Deductible'
ACROSS POL_ACTIVE.ME_M1 AS ' '
WHERE POL_ACTIVE.POLICY_TYPE EQ 'CMP';
WHERE D_Region EQ &D_Region.(OR(,,,, |FORMAT=A255V)).D_Region:. AND POL_ACTIVE.POLICY_STATE EQ &POLICY_STATE.(OR(FIND POL_ACTIVE.POLICY_STATE IN POL_ACTIVE |FORMAT=A2)).State:. AND POL_ACTIVE.AGENCY_NAME EQ &AGENCY_NAME.(OR(FIND POL_ACTIVE.AGENCY_NAME IN POL_ACTIVE |FORMAT=A100)).Agency Name:. AND POL_ACTIVE.RISK_TYPE_DESC EQ &RISK_TYPE_DESC.(OR(FIND POL_ACTIVE.RISK_TYPE_DESC IN POL_ACTIVE |FORMAT=A50)).Risk Type Desc:. AND D_TIV_Group EQ &D_TIV_Group.(OR(,,, |FORMAT=A255V)).TIV Group:.;

-SET &SRegion= ' ';
-SET &SRegion= TRIM('B', (STRIP(47, 'CR', '''', 'A47V')), 47, ' ', 1, 'A47V');
-SET &Region= IF CRgion-?ê? EQ 'CR OR ER OR SR OR WR OR Large Account' THEN 'All Regions' ELSE CRgion-?ê? ;
-SET &State = IF _FOC_NULL EQ _FOC_NULL THEN '' ELSE ' State(s): ' | _FOC_NULL;
-SET &Agency = IF _FOC_NULL EQ _FOC_NULL THEN '' ELSE ' Agency: ' | _FOC_NULL;
-SET &Risk = IF _FOC_NULL EQ _FOC_NULL THEN '' ELSE ' Risk: ' | _FOC_NULL;
-SET &STIV= TRIM('T', (STRIP(65, 'A. 0-4 TIV', '''', 'A55V')), 50, ' ', 1, 'A46V');
-SET &TIV = IF A. 0-4 TIV0?ê? EQ '0-4 TIV OR 4-10 TIV OR 10-20 TIV OR 20plus TIV' THEN 'All TIV Groups' ELSE 'A. 0-4 TIV0?ê?';
-SET &Header3= CRgion-?ê? | | | ;
-SET &STIVp= PATTERN(100, A. 0-4 TIV0?ê?, 'A100V');
-SET &TIV3 = POSITION('X' 'A. 9-9 AAAXXXXXXXXX9aXXXXXXaaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ');
0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE 14 IN PROCEDURE ADHOCRQ FOCEXEC *
(FOC262) UNBALANCED PARENTHESES


This is making me crazy. My cubemates and I appreciate any and all help! Smiler

--Deb

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Frans
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Could you try without the Variable length, so just A47?

It's not clear which version you're running, I know 8.2.02 has problems with STRREP, it might be that STRIP is affected too.


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DWaybright
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Sorry, we're still on 8.1.05M. Planning to go to 8.2.03 in August.

The odd thing is it worked fine for the first week. The only thing that changed (as far as I know) is that we applied a new license.


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FP Mod Chuck
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Deb

This is just a guess but maybe a left or right parentheses is the culprit in your parameter value.


Thank you for using Focal Point!

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DWaybright
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Chuck,
I thought of that. The TIV groups used to start with "A)" instead of "A.".
I have two reports that use this -- today one of them is working and the other isn't. It almost seems like there is a buffer area that isn't being cleared. Is there a command that clears buffer areas that would be used by the dynamic variables?

Thanks!


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Deb

I am not aware of any commands like that.


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DWaybright
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I changed the code to use the original parameter amper variable in the header, and that seems to have solved the issue. Gotta love WebFOCUS's quirks!

Thanks all,
Deb


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