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malcolm magnesium
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Hi,

One of my users is trying to write some code along these lines, so that the field name changes dynamically depending on the grouped values, if you see what I mean. I've tried to interpret this using CAR as follows, but it's missing a little something... Hope this makes sense - any help appreciated! :-)

-SET &NEWTITLE = IF BODYTYPE EQ 'CONVERTIBLE' THEN 'SOFTTOP' ELSE 'BODY-TYPE';

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM DEALER_COST AS &NEWTITLE
BY CAR
BY COUNTRY
ACROSS BODYTYPE
END


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Mighty Max
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Does redefining BODYTYPE help?
  
-SET &NEWTITLE = IF BODYTYPE EQ 'CONVERTIBLE' THEN 'SOFTTOP' ELSE 'BODY-TYPE';

DEFINE FILE CAR
BODYTYPE/A100 = IF BODYTYPE EQ 'CONVERTIBLE' THEN 'SOFTTOP' ELSE 'BODY-TYPE';
END

TABLE FILE CAR
SUM DEALER_COST
BY CAR
BY COUNTRY
ACROSS BODYTYPE 
END


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malcolm magnesium
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Thanks Mighty Max. It might help, I'll need to apply it to the real thing tomorrow. I'm not sure my example using Car was so great, I might need to refine it.

I'll report back on how I get along...

Thanks.


malcolm magnesium
 
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Darin Lee
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-SET &NEWTITLE = IF BODYTYPE EQ 'CONVERTIBLE' THEN 'SOFTTOP' ELSE 'BODY-TYPE';


You cannot reference field names in Dialogue Manager commands. DM commands are executed before any data retrieval occurs so your initial approach won't work.
What Max has suggested is what you need. Redefine the columns and then sort ACROSS those new values and you get the new values as column titles.


Regards,

Darin


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