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JOE
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Hello,

I'm trying to prefill a combo box with dates from a sql stored proc. I would like the dates to display as MDYY in the drop down box. I tried this:
 NEWDATE/YYMD=HDATE(LD,'YYMD');
NEWDATE2/MDYY=NEWDATE;
and kept getting an error :

0 NUMBER OF RECORDS IN TABLE= 36 LINES= 36
0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE 12 IN PROCEDURE month.fexFOCEXEC *
(FOC282) RESULT OF EXPRESSION IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE FORMAT OF FIELD:
NEWDATE2
0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE 16 IN PROCEDURE month FOCEXEC *
(FOC003) THE FIELDNAME IS NOT RECOGNIZED: NEWDATE2
BYPASSING TO END OF COMMAND
(FOC009) INCOMPLETE REQUEST STATEMENT

How do I fix this? Thanks for any help.

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WebFocus 7.7.02 WinXP
 
Posts: 236 | Registered: May 12, 2006Report This Post
Francis Mariani
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Works for me.

DEFINE FILE CAR
LD/HYYMDS = HINPUT(14, '20090509000000', 8, 'HYYMDS');
NEWDATE/YYMD=HDATE(LD,'YYMD');
NEWDATE2/MDYY=NEWDATE;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
NEWDATE
NEWDATE2
BY COUNTRY
-*ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT XML
END


Francis


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JOE
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My HTML launch page has two amper variable dates. &dte and &edte. The request is to have a starting period and ending period. The data source (store proc) from sql server has one datefield - Report Date field with two amper dates off this field. The Report Date comes over to focus formatted as HYYMDS - last date of month. So to make it easier on the launch page, I created another stored proc off the same data source with distinct date to prefill the two date fields. The XML focus procedure will only allow this format: NEWDATE/YYMD=HDATE(LD,'YYMD');
Once I converted the first format to NEWDATE2/MDYY=NEWDATE;
and ran the report it screamed the varchar error at me..I'm confused...I can run the XML separately just as Frank did with no problems..but once you want to use it on your launch page with addional date formatting it does not work.


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mlcastrocis
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Hello Joe;

create a fex with an xml output to load you combobox.

convert your date from sql to return something like 01/01/2011 string nvarchar(10) usually.

here is the format to return the date that way.

CONVERT(NVARCHAR(10),getdate(), 0),101)

the date will be 01/27/2011 that it will return.

substitue the getdate() function for the field that you need and that will give you your xml tag to load into the combobox.


WebFocus 7.6.10, Windows XP.
 
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Francis Mariani
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JOE, ensure that your external fex that retrieves and manipulates the dates only outputs two columns of data in the XML file.

DEFINE FILE CAR
LD/HYYMDS = HINPUT(14, '20090509000000', 8, 'HYYMDS');
NEWDATE/YYMD=HDATE(LD,'YYMD');
NEWDATE2/MDYY=NEWDATE;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
NEWDATE NOPRINT
NEWDATE2
BY COUNTRY
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT XML
ON TABLE SET HOLDLIST PRINTONLY
END

NOPRINT (if required) and HOLDLIST are key here...


Francis


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JOE
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Ah!!ML..That worked! I see now. I never thought of converting my sql stored proc date job to varchar. Thanks! Only problem I see with this is that the dates do not go in date order.


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Francis Mariani
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Just add an order by phrase in the SQL of your stored procedure - use the original date field, not the converted one.


Francis


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