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Norb Eckert
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Hi All,

I'm brand spanking new to WebFocus and need some direction please. I have a report accepting date parameters that sums up the sales by product group and displays two columns. It works fine. I would like to include the totals for the previous year in the same time frame in an additional column as shown below:

Item group Total Last Year Totals
---------- ----- ----------------
2 $10,000 $24,000
35 $8,500 $7,500
9 $6,000 $6,400

I am unclear on how to approach this. I was thinking of using two hold files - 1 to hold the item group and current totals and then run the query again to get last years totals for the same groups, then join the files to create a final report?

I am using version 7.1 of Developer Studio. I am not familiar with the underlying code and I noticed that almost all responses refer to FOCUS code. Yikes!

TIA,

Norb


prod:7.6.9, win2k3 mre, caster, bid, devstudio 7.6.9
 
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mgrackin
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Norb,

Add an ACROSS sort to your request using YEAR as the ACROSS sort field. In FOCUS code it would look something like this:

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM SALES
BY CAR
ACROSS YEAR
END

The colun title will be the value for YEAR such as '2004' or '2005'.


Thanks!

Mickey

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Piipster
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You probably want to do BY HIGHEST YEAR... in other words sort descending.


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