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Patty Stoddard
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I need to calculate the current period activity in Dollars.

I have two fields I can use to create this calculated field:
1. GRANT_PERIOD
2. SUM_YEAR_TO_DATE_ACTIVITY

The name of the calculated field will be:
Current_Period_Activity

The user will enter one of the following parameters:
01
02
03
04
etc. through 12

I'm guessing I need to create a define. How do I write this so the output includes only activity in a single period?

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George Patton
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While in the shower I realised that I probably have misunderstood what you are trying to do...so here goes again.

Let's assume you have two database fields:
GRANT_ACTIVITY and ACTIVITY_DATE in YYMD format

DEFINE FILE whatever
YEAR/YY = ACTIVITY_DATE;
GRANT_PERIOD/M = ACTIVITY_DATE;
END

TABLE FILE whatever
SUM GRANT_ACTIVITY 
-* BY YEAR BY GRANT_PERIOD
WHERE YEAR EQ &YEAR AND GRANT_PERIOD EQ &GRANT_PERIOD
END

The comment line -* ... isn't necessary of course and won't produce any different result if GRANT_PERIOD EQ &GRANT_PERIOD, but would be useful if you wanted the year to date and changed the WHERE clause to:
WHERE YEAR EQ &YEAR AND GRANT_PERIOD LE &GRANT_PERIOD

This assumes your date field is a SmartDate. You should also get the book "(Almost) 1001 ways to work with dates in WebFocus".

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Tony A
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While in the shower

Thanks for sharing George .....

But a little too much information thanks Wink

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George Patton
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But I do some of my best thinking in the shower ! (What you didn't see is that I posted a completely different solution earlier and then realised I had misunderstood the request).

Patty - is this any help to you?


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