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mullman
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I'm trying to build a report that will determine the current month and then loop through all the months from January to the current month to get totals from an Oracle table. Any ideas on the best way to accomplish this?


WebFOCUS MRE
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Output: Excel and sometimes PDF.
 
Posts: 10 | Registered: November 14, 2007Report This Post
FrankDutch
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Suppose the oracle table has a field like DATESTAMP/YYMD.

-SET &NOW = &YMD;
DEFINE FILE ORACLETABLE
MONTH/YYM=DATESTAMP;
END
TABLE FILE ORACLETABLE
SUM WHATEVER
BY MONTH
WHERE DATESTAMP LT '&NOW';
WHERE DATESTAMP GT '20080101';
END


not to difficult ..




Frank
prod: WF 7.6.10 platform Windows,
databases: msSQL2000, msSQL2005, RMS, Oracle, Sybase,IE7
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Posts: 2387 | Location: Amsterdam, the Netherlands | Registered: December 03, 2006Report This Post
mullman
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I apologize for not be clear enough. Here is what the output needs to look like:

JAN-08 {total number for Jan here}
FEB-08 {total number for Feb here}
MAR-08 {total number for Mar here}
...
xxx-08 {total number for current month here}

Is there a WHILE loop in Web FOCUS? I suppose all I need to do is hold the current month as an integer and then loop from 1 to that number with the query to get the total number inside the loop, right? How does Web FOCUS handle looping of this nature?


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GinnyJakes
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Why won't Frank's example work for you? The SUM verb adds up everything in a separate bucket for the BY field. Why don't you try it and see what you get.

For Dialogue Manager, there is a -REPEAT command that does looping but that isn't what you want here.


Ginny
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Waz
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If you need to populate for dates that are missing, try this.

-SET &STRTYYM = 199801 ;
-SET &FNSHYYM = 200001 ;

DEFINE FILE TRADES
 MTH_YYM/YYM = DATE_OF_TRADE ;
END

TABLE FILE TRADES
SUM AMOUNT
BY MTH_YYM ROWS
-SET &Over = ' ' ;
-SET &CALCDATE = &STRTYYM ;
-REPEAT DATES WHILE &CALCDATE LE &FNSHYYM ;
-SET &DISP_DATE = CHGDAT('YYM','MTYY',&CALCDATE,'A10') ;
 &Over &CALCDATE  AS '&DISP_DATE'
-SET &Over = 'OVER' ;
-SET &CALCDATE = AYM(&CALCDATE,1,'I6') ;
-DATES
END


Waz...

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FrankDutch
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I'm not sure if this example from Waz will work.
I'm going to test it Monday.




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Waz
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Frank, I tested it before I posted it, it worked on 7.1.6, I have used this technique for the past 10 to 15 years.


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