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awbradley
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I have not been able to figure out a way to understand the errors that are returned when attempting to run a report in the Managed Reporting environment.
I am attempting to develop a new report and need some help interpreting the following error message:

0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE 24 IN PROCEDURE ADHOCRQ FOCEXEC *
(FOC280) COMPARISON BETWEEN COMPUTATIONAL AND ALPHA VALUES IS NOT ALLOWED
(FOC009) INCOMPLETE REQUEST STATEMENT
BYPASSING TO END OF COMMAND

Is there a place where these messages are documented?
 
Posts: 26 | Location: Little Rock, AR | Registered: October 29, 2004Report This Post
Leah
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The comparison of computational with alpha members often occurs in a define or compute where you forget the format and the field defaults to integer:

For example:

COMPUTE ZYZ = ABC;
COMPUTE XYZ/A4 = 3;
If ABC is alpha the error is generated. Or in the second case you may or may not get an error depending on the version you are at.
 
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awbradley
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Thanks for the input. I have been able to narrow down the problem. I am wanting to create a report that will run for a particular date range. I have begin date and end date variables which the user will enter. The dates they enter will be compared to a date field on the table. Any suggestions as to how I can specify that my parameters are date fields?
 
Posts: 26 | Location: Little Rock, AR | Registered: October 29, 2004Report This Post
jwaugh
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Here is how I run reports for a user specified date range. The user enters the start date and end date as text (e.g. 01/01/2005), and WebFocus adds the time information to compare it to a DateTime field in a SQL database.


WHERE ( CUST_CREATED GE DT(&startDate 00:00:00) ) AND ( CUST_CREATED LE DT(&endDate 23:59:59) );
 
Posts: 1 | Location: Cranston, RI | Registered: April 28, 2005Report This Post
dwf
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If you have WebFOCUS documentation (printed or CD), there should be an appendix at the end of the Creating Reports manual (Appendix B in mine) that will either provide descriptions for all erroe messages or tell you how to issue a command to find the text for a specific focus error.

Here is an excerpt from my manual:

To display the text and explanation for any message, issue the following query command in
a stored procedure
? n
where:
n
Is the message number.

The message number and text displays, along with a detailed explanation of the message
(if one exists). For example, issuing the following command

? 210

displays the following:

(FOC210) THE DATA VALUE HAS A FORMAT ERROR:
An alphabetic character has been found where all numerical digits are
required.
 
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