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MartinY
Virtuoso
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Hi Folks,

FYI

Just to share an something that I found with TX format where Total and Sub-Total are not performed properly when a TX format is used.

I can't tell if this is a known issue, a new one or a normal behavior because actually I can't login to TechSupport.

Run below sample twice and compare.
First as is.
Second with the MDL field displaying (remove "-*").
DEFINE FILE CAR
MDL /TX6 = MODEL;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM MODEL
-*    MDL
    RETAIL_COST
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
ON COUNTRY SUBTOTAL AS 'Sub-Total'
ON TABLE COLUMN-TOTAL AS 'Grand-Total'
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD
END

With the second run result, you will see that each Sub-Total are 0 EXCEPT for England (at 5,100 instead of 45,319) and Grand-Total is 5,100 when it's supposed to be 173,204.

Reason of this : Total and Sub-Total only consider rows where the MDL field is displayed on no more than ONE row. Which is only "ENGLAND/TRIUMPH/TR7" row.
In other words : if your TX field display its content in multiple rows, your Total and Sub-Total will be wrong.


WF versions : Prod 8.2.04M gen 33, Dev 8.2.04M gen 33, OS : Windows, DB : MSSQL, Outputs : HTML, Excel, PDF
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BabakNYC
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Hi MartinY:
Why are you SUMming a string? Just wondering.
Babak


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MartinY
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Babak,

The case is not to sum a string but the TX format cannot be used as a BY, so you don't have choice to put it in the PRINT/SUM section if you want it to be displayed. And if you have numeric value that you want to display with total, there is not a lot of choices...

Even with Multi-verb, the same issue occurs.
DEFINE FILE CAR
MDL /TX6 = MODEL;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
SUM RETAIL_COST
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
ON COUNTRY SUBTOTAL AS 'Sub-Total'

PRINT MODEL
      MDL
BY COUNTRY
BY CAR
ON TABLE COLUMN-TOTAL AS 'Grand-Total'
ON TABLE SET PAGE-NUM NOLEAD
END


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