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san250671
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I have to give end user an ability to decide SORT order of the report. I can put a list of fields on dropdown/list where user can multiselect the fields. I am not able to figure out how to use the selected ones in my program/fex

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jimbo
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Something like this:
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM DEALER_COST
BY &SORT
END

Where &SORT value can be passed from the HTML page drop-down


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san250671
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quote:
&SORT

Thanks Jimbo..


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Doug
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You can also add &SORT (If it's a user friendly / displayable value) to the TITLE and toggle it via DM to be used in a drilldown.




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Joe Beydoun
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I guess I took this a bit further and have our users select the columns they want to display and the sort order using a double-list box in Composer.

The procedure code is this:

-DEFAULT &SORTLISTA = '''MODEL'' NONE ''TYPE'';
-SET &SORTOBJ1A = STRREP(&SORTLISTA.LENGTH, &SORTLISTA, 1, '''', 0, 'x', &SORTLISTA.LENGTH, A&SORTLISTA.LENGTH);
-SET &SORTOBJA = 'BY ' | STRREP(&SORTOBJ1A.LENGTH, &SORTOBJ1A, 4 , 'NONE', 2, 'BY', &SORTOBJ1A.LENGTH, A&SORTOBJ1A.LENGTH);


TABLE FILE CAR
BY &SORTOBJA
END


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Doug
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I changed this a bit (corrected two syntax errors, it didn't work as written) and added HEADING and a few other things...
-DEFAULT &SORTLISTA = '''MODEL'' NONE ''TYPE''';
-SET &SORTOBJ1A = STRREP(&SORTLISTA.LENGTH, &SORTLISTA, 1, '''', 0, 'x', &SORTLISTA.LENGTH, A&SORTLISTA.LENGTH);
-SET &SORTOBJA = 'BY ' | STRREP(&SORTOBJ1A.LENGTH, &SORTOBJ1A, 4 , 'NONE', 2, 'BY', &SORTOBJ1A.LENGTH, A&SORTOBJ1A.LENGTH);

-SET &ECHO = ALL ; 
TABLE FILE CAR
HEADING
"Sort Order: &SORTOBJA"
&SORTOBJA
ON TABLE SET PAGE OFF
END
 
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Joe Beydoun
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Thanks for the cleanup Doug, i free-form typed the code, never a good idea.


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