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Doug
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This is a follow-up to My previous post about this.

I'm drilling down from a chart to a report. The chart is a horizontal stacked bar with 4 segments as a SUM field1 field2 field3 field4 BY Field4 NOPRINT.

I need to change the where statements to: WHERE FieldName EQ &Variable.EVAL; (not: WHERE FieldName EQ &Variable.QUOTEDSTRING), and that's fine.

If I have the drop down list set to "Multiple: Multiple" and "Multiple Add Quotes: Yes" What do I use in the drill down lines when multiple selections are made?

1) TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=N2, TARGET='_blank', FOCEXEC=FullPath/MyFex.fex(RptField='RptValue.EVAL'), $
2) TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=N2, TARGET='_blank', FOCEXEC=FullPath/MyFex.fex(RptField=&RptValue.EVAL), $
3) TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=N2, TARGET='_blank', FOCEXEC=FullPath/MyFex.fex(RptField=&RptValue.QUOTEDSTRING), $
4) TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=N2, TARGET='_blank', FOCEXEC=FullPath/MyFex.fex(RptField='&RptValue'), $

Pick 1.

Thanks, Doug




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Chaudhary
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quote:
WHERE FieldName EQ &Variable.EVAL;

If we have the drop down list set to "Multiple: Multiple" and "Multiple Add Quotes: Yes" this will work in Where statement , and if you want to pass this variable(&Variable) in drill report we need QUOTEDSTRING .

But in your drill example you are using another variable "&RptValue" what will be the value for this variable ? selected stack bar's value or by fields value ?


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Wep5622
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Do you have dialog manager code in the value of your amper-variable or something? If not, then why the .EVAL?

If you do not actually need .EVAL, then option 3 should be the correct one to use.

If you do need .EVAL because of what's in the value of your amper-variable, then perhaps it's possible to handle the quotes-handling through another amper-variable inside your value. That amper-variable could then be passed along with your drilldowns for report-specific quotes handling.

For example:
-* Two single quotes
-SET &Q = '''''';
-SET &Value = 'Some Value';
-SET &RptValue = '&Q|Rpt&Value|&Q';


The trouble with that approach is that DM evaluates a single level of quotes when defining it as well as when passing it along in a drilldown, so it gets complicated determining how often you need to escape how many quotes to get the correct result...


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MartinY
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As Wep stated, when using "Multiple: Multiple" and "Multiple Add Quotes: Yes" from a drop down list, option -3- should be the one to use from the parent fex.

TABLE FILE
...
TYPE=DATA, COLUMN=N2, TARGET='_blank', FOCEXEC=FullPath/MyFex.fex(RptField=&RptValue.QUOTEDSTRING), $
...
END

Then in the drilled fex you should have your WHERE clause similar to this

TABLE FILE
...
WHERE TestField EQ &RptField;
END


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Doug
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Thanks Everyone. I'll check out this information and get back to this post with my final code.
 
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