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WF_Noob
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I have a date input in Webfocus html form. The form is writing into the DB by a SQL Passthrough. The oracle default date format is DD-MON-YY (01-JAN-01). Webfocus offers a lot of date formats within the tool except the one required for me.

How do I convert from DD/MM/YY to DD-MON-YY.


Thanks

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FP Mod Chuck
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WF_Noob

Here is a sample against ggsales which is YYYMD but you can see the syntax to convert...

DEFINE FILE GGSALES
ALPHA_MO/A3=
IF EDIT(DATE,'$$$$99') EQ '01' THEN 'JAN' ELSE
IF EDIT(DATE,'$$$$99') EQ '02' THEN 'FEB' ELSE
IF EDIT(DATE,'$$$$99') EQ '03' THEN 'MAR' ELSE
IF EDIT(DATE,'$$$$99') EQ '04' THEN 'APR' ELSE
IF EDIT(DATE,'$$$$99') EQ '05' THEN 'MAY' ELSE
IF EDIT(DATE,'$$$$99') EQ '06' THEN 'JUN' ELSE
IF EDIT(DATE,'$$$$99') EQ '07' THEN 'JUL' ELSE
IF EDIT(DATE,'$$$$99') EQ '08' THEN 'AUG' ELSE
IF EDIT(DATE,'$$$$99') EQ '09' THEN 'SEP' ELSE
IF EDIT(DATE,'$$$$99') EQ '10' THEN 'OCT' ELSE
IF EDIT(DATE,'$$$$99') EQ '11' THEN 'NOV' ELSE 'DEC';
ORACLE_DATE/A9=EDIT(DATE,'$$$$$$99') | '-' | ALPHA_MO | '-' | EDIT(DATE,'$$99');
END
TABLE FILE GGSALES
BY ORACLE_DATE
WHERE READLIMIT EQ 10
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 10
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD
ON TABLE SET ASNAMES ON
ON TABLE NOTOTAL
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT HTML
ON TABLE SET HTMLEMBEDIMG ON
ON TABLE SET HTMLCSS ON
ON TABLE SET STYLE *
INCLUDE = IBFS:/FILE/IBI_HTML_DIR/ibi_themes/Warm.sty,
$
ENDSTYLE
END


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MartinY
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You will have to play around with the format because I don't know how your field are stored (displayed format is one thing, storage another), but this is a starting point
DEFINE FILE CAR
DTX /I8 = 20200705;
DT  /A8DMYY = DATECVT(DTX, 'I8YYMD', 'A8DMYY');
-* The T is to display the 3 characters month in capitals letters (t = mixed case, TR = full month name capital, tr = full month name mixed case)
DTA /D-M-YYT = DT;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT DTX
      DT
      DTA
BY COUNTRY
WHERE READLIMIT EQ 1;
END


WF versions : Prod 8.2.04M gen 33, Dev 8.2.04M gen 33, OS : Windows, DB : MSSQL, Outputs : HTML, Excel, PDF
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Tony A
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Gents,

Might I suggest that you're trying too hard Razzer

TABLE FILE GGSALES
SUM FST.DATE/D-Mt-YY
BY DATE
END


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FP Mod Chuck
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Tony

You are absolutely right... Thanks!


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