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Falcor2099
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I'm working with a large data set that will be using various aggregate functions in WF. One of the requirements is reordering the natural listing of columns given user input -- putting a SUM field as the fourth column and three BY columns before it, etc.

What are my options for doing this other than a HOLD file?

Thanks,

AG

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Francis Mariani
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Look at the SEQUENCE WebFOCUS Stylesheet option.

Creating Reports With WebFOCUS Language > Laying Out the Report Page > Arranging Columns on a Page > Changing Column Order

"You can change the order in which vertical sort (BY) columns are displayed in a report. This feature does not apply to horizontal sort (ACROSS) rows or stacked (OVER) columns."

This syntax applies to PDF, PS, HTML, and EXL2K reports.
[TYPE=REPORT,] COLUMN=identifier, SEQUENCE=sequence, $


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Francis,

Thank you! That's exactly what I was looking for.

Would my only other option for doing this outside of SS Formatting be using a HOLD table? It's very likely that the end users will want this output in virtually every format available - having a solution that is independent of a particular output type would be therefore be the most robust approach.

Thanks again,


AG


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Francis Mariani
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Yes, I'd say that a HOLD file is probably the only other method.


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Since you're not re-ordering the data but just the order of the columns, you could do something like
SUM &SEQUENCE1 &SEQUENCE2 &SEQUENCE3 &SEQUENCE4
BY FIELD1 NOPRINT
BY FIELD2 NOPRINT
BY FIELD3 NOPRINT
BY FIELD4 NOPRINT
where the &SEQUENCEx variables are the fields as the user selected them. They should be the same as the FIELDx fields, only in another order.


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