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Dan P
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I have a report that is ran monthly. In each version of the report I have multiple sets of columns (1 for the previous month and one for the month prior to the previous month in each set). For example Cost 5/13 and Cost 6/13. Is there a way to dynamically set variables to declare the column titles in the AS 'Cost "date"' syntax?

Thanks,

Dan


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Rakesh P
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Dan,

try something like this:

-SET &YY = SUBSTR(8,&YYMD,3,4,'99','A2');
-SET &PYY = &YY-1;
-SET &MON = CHGDAT('&YYMD','MT',&YYMD,'A3');
-SET &CURR_DT = &MON |','| &YY;
-SET &PRIOR_DT = &MON |','| &PYY;

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COUNTRY
CAR
RETAIL_COST AS 'RETAIL_COST : &CURR_DT'
END


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Danny-SRL
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Dan,
Could you be a bit more specific?
How are you generating your columns? with an ACROSS? do you have in fact 3 fields (this month, last month, the one before last)?


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Dan P
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I was able to resolve my issue with just setting variables as the month/year that I wanted and then appending to to the end of my existing AS declarations.

AS 'Loading % <= 2 Hrs &prevMonth'

Thanks for your help!

Dan


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j.gross
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I'll assume you have three separate fields (COSTA,B,C).

You can compute the column titles in dialog manager variables, and insert them into the AS phrase, as shown below.

The parameter &ASOF is a yyyymmdd (or just yyyymm) value. The -DEFAULT line makes the run date the default value, but allows it to be overridden (to produce back-issues of the report). EDIT is used to isolate the year and month portion of the date; AYM to obtain those of the prior two months; the remaining edits insert the slash, and drop leading zero where applicable.

-DEFAULT &ASOF = &YYMD.EVAL;

-SET &YYM0 = EDIT(&ASOF,'999999');
-SET &YYM1 = AYM(&YYM0,-1,'I6');
-SET &YYM2 = AYM(&YYM0,-2,'I6');

-SET &MY0 = EDIT(&YYM0,'$$$$99/') | EDIT(&YYM0,'$$99') ;
-SET &MY1 = EDIT(&YYM1,'$$$$99/') | EDIT(&YYM1,'$$99') ;
-SET &MY2 = EDIT(&YYM2,'$$$$99/') | EDIT(&YYM2,'$$99') ;

-SET &Current    = IF EDIT(&MY0,'9') EQ '0' THEN EDIT(&MY0,'$9999') ELSE &MY0 ;
-SET &Penult     = IF EDIT(&MY1,'9') EQ '0' THEN EDIT(&MY1,'$9999') ELSE &MY1 ;
-SET &Antepenult = IF EDIT(&MY2,'9') EQ '0' THEN EDIT(&MY2,'$9999') ELSE &MY2 ;

TABLE 
. . .
COSTC AS 'Cost &Antepenult'
COSTB AS 'Cost &Penult'
COSTA AS 'Cost &Current'
. . .


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