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Marikaki
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Hi folks,

What do I need to be able to use the MONTH function within Report Painter?

Error I got:

 
-SET &MTH = MONTH(02/16/10);
 0 ERROR AT OR NEAR LINE     51  IN PROCEDURE _get_ly_wkd.fexFOC
 (FOC263) EXTERNAL FUNCTION OR LOAD MODULE NOT FOUND: MONTH

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Marikaki

WF 7.7.03m, MRE, BI Dashboard, DevStudio, Report Caster, Windows 7, I.E. 8/9, Apache Tomcat 6.0, Derby Output formats: Excel2K, PDF, HTML, AHTML

 
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Dan Satchell
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I don't believe there is a MONTH function in WebFOCUS or MAINTAIN. There is such a function in SQL.

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fatboyjim
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Hi Marikaki,

If you know that the month is always the first 2 characters, you may want to try using:

  
-SET &MTH 	= EDIT(&PARAMDATE, '99$$$$$$$$');


Best Regards,

Jimmy Pang


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Marikaki
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I found it in the web Maintain-specific Date and Time Functions documentation.

Is there any easy way to get the month using SET command?


Marikaki

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njsden
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As Dan says there is not such a function (at least that I know of) in WebFOCUS.

If your DATE value resides in a dialog manager &variable (as your example leads me to believe) you may use the EDIT function to extract the piece corresponding to the month.

-SET &MTH=EDIT(&YYMD, '$$$$99$$');


If your value is in an actual DATE field, you have more options; for example, have a new date field with "M" format and assign your actual DATE value to it.

DEFINE FILE CAR
MYDATE/YYMD WITH CAR = &YYMD;
MYMONTH/M = MYDATE;
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
       CAR
       MYDATE
       MYMONTH
END


Hope that helps!
- Neftali.


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njsden
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fatboyjim, you just beat me to it Wink


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Marikaki
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Thanks You Jimmy, exactly what I need and easy. I am doing baby steps learning BI-Webfocus.


Marikaki

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fatboyjim
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Not a problem =) Glad it helped =)


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Marikaki
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Thanks Neftali; I appreciate the fast speed answer you all gave me.


Marikaki

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Waz
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FYI, you cannot use Maintain functions in a report.

Maintain functions are only accessible after the line MAINTAIN [FILE {Master}].

May be a good idea for you to update your signature, so we know what platform and version your using.


Waz...

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Marikaki
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Thanks for the info. I will update my signature.


Marikaki

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