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Susan M
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Has anyone been able to successfully define 2 conditions on a DEFMACRO?
Currently I'm asking to color a field when less than another field. I would also like to only include this where N4 field is equal to 'O'.


$
DEFMACRO=COND0001,
MACTYPE=RULE,
WHEN=N5 LT N6,

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eric.woerle
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I can't remember if I've ever tried to do 2 conditions in a when statement, but I have put the condition into a define with an output of "Y" or "N" and then used the result of the define as my WHEN Condition.


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MartinY
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DEFINE FILE X
CND /I1 = IF N5 LT N6 AND N4 EQ 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0;
END

TABLE FILE X
PRINT CND NOPRINT
...

DEFMACRO=COND0001,
 MACTYPE=RULE,
 WHEN=CND EQ 1,
$
...
END


Must work.


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Susan M
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Great! I'll give it a shot. thank you!


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Danny-SRL
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I would rather use a COMPUTE.


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Susan M
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Just completed the mods to include the define and it works perfectly.
thank you all for the suggestions.


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Ram Prasad E
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Conditional styling using WHEN will support evaluation of one condition only. So in case of more than 1 condition, either use DEFINE or COMPUTE(use COMPUTE for better performance).

Thanks,
Ram


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J.Hines
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Just a word of caution, as I'm just now finding this out after a crap-ton of digging.

I was getting "Unreadable Content" errors in my Excel reports, and I've now narrowed it down to the cause being that if you have

  • No records (probably due to a WHEN filter)
  • A COMPUTE
  • A DEFMACRO that uses the computed value


Most of my reports use EMPTYREPORT=ON (don't ask), but in this case, apparently WebFOCUS can't handle it when the WHEN clause in the DEFMACRO uses a compute field that's blank.

Unfortunately, I can't just set EMPTYREPORT=OFF, because this is the first report in a set of compound reports, and I at least need it to do `FORMAT XLSX OPEN AS report_name`.


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