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Does anyone have a process written to parse a masterfile to extract field names, descriptions, defined fields, and filters?This message has been edited. Last edited by: FP Mod Chuck,
This is some code that Marcy Miller created to expose the metadata into a hold file and use for different functions with her 'Fasttrack' application. It is pretty complex and probably isn't exactly what you need but you will see how to get the info you are wanting.
-* File Extend Metadata -SET &FOLDERPATH='fasttrack'; -RUN TABLE FILE SYSAPPS SUM FNAME BY FNAME NOPRINT WHERE FEXT EQ 'mas'; WHERE APPNAME CONTAINS '&FOLDERPATH.EVAL'; WHERE FDESCR NE ''; ON TABLE SET HOLDLIST PRINTONLY ON TABLE SAVE AS TBLIST END
-* BUILD METADATA DEFINE FILE SYSCOLUM JOINKEY/A60=EDIT(TBNAME,'999999999999999999999999999999')||EDIT(NAME,'999999999999999999999999999999'); DSPLYLBL/A1000=STRREP (1000, TITLE, 1000, ',', 1, ' ', 1000, 'A1000'); NFILENAME/A100=IF FILENAME EQ '' THEN '' ELSE (FILENAME || '.'); NSEGNAME/A100=IF SEGNAME EQ '' THEN '' ELSE (SEGNAME || '.'); NEWNAME/A1000=IF DEFINE EQ 'C' THEN ('COMPUTE ' | NAME || ';') ELSE (NFILENAME || NSEGNAME || NAME); GROUPSORT/A2=DECODE DEFINE ('Y' '2' 'C' '3' 'F' '4' ELSE '1'); GROUPING/A40=DECODE DEFINE ('Y' 'Virtual Row Calculations' 'C' 'Virtual Aggregation Calculations' 'F' 'Filters' ELSE 'Database Columns'); USAGE1/A1=EDIT(USAGE,'9'); USAGE2/I4=IF USAGE CONTAINS 'V' THEN EDIT(EDIT(GETTOK(USAGE, 200, 1, 'V', 200, 'A50'),'$99')) ELSE EDIT(EDIT(USAGE,'$99')); GA_COLTYPE/A2=IF IS_CUBE EQ 'Y' AND DIMEN_NAME GT '' THEN 'D' ELSE IF IS_CUBE EQ 'Y' AND PROPERTY EQ 'MEASURE' THEN 'M' ELSE IF IS_CUBE EQ 'Y' AND PROPERTY EQ 'CAPTION' THEN 'D' ELSE IF IS_CUBE EQ 'Y' AND PROPERTY EQ 'ATTRIBUTE' THEN 'D' ELSE IF IS_CUBE EQ 'Y' AND PROPERTY EQ 'FILTER' THEN 'F' ELSE IF IS_CUBE EQ 'Y' AND DEFINE EQ 'F' THEN 'F' ELSE IF IS_CUBE EQ 'Y' AND DIMEN_NAME NE '' THEN 'D' ELSE IF IS_CUBE EQ 'Y' THEN '' ELSE IF DEFINE EQ 'F' OR BV_DEFINE EQ 'F' THEN 'F' ELSE IF DEFINE EQ 'C' OR BV_DEFINE EQ 'C' THEN 'M' ELSE IF DEFINE EQ 'Y' AND USAGE EQ 'YMD' OR 'YYMD' OR 'YYMDy' OR 'YYMDm' OR 'YYMDq' OR 'MtDYYm' OR 'W' OR 'WT' OR 'WR' OR 'Wt' OR 'Wr' OR 'Mt' OR 'wt' THEN 'D' ELSE IF USAGE1 EQ 'A' THEN 'D' ELSE IF USAGE1 EQ 'P' THEN 'M' ELSE IF USAGE1 EQ 'D' THEN 'M' ELSE IF USAGE1 EQ 'I' THEN 'M' ELSE IF DEFINE EQ 'Y' AND USAGE1 EQ 'I' THEN 'M' ELSE IF DEFINE EQ 'Y' AND USAGE1 EQ 'P' THEN 'M' ELSE IF DEFINE EQ 'Y' AND USAGE1 EQ 'D' THEN 'M' ELSE ''; END TABLE FILE SYSCOLUM SUM USAGE DEFTEXT GA_COLTYPE LONGDESC BY JOINKEY BY TBNAME BY NAME BY DSPLYLBL AS 'TITLE' BY NEWNAME AS 'PASSED_COLUMN' BY ALIAS BY USAGE1 NOPRINT WHERE ACCESS_PROP NE 'INTERNAL'; WHERE TBNAME EQ '&TBNAME'; ON TABLE SET HOLDLIST PRINTONLY ON TABLE HOLD AS METAHOLD1 FORMAT FOCUS INDEX JOINKEY END
-* GET DEFAULT MEASURES TABLE FILE METAHOLD1 LIST NAME JOINKEY BY TBNAME WHERE GA_COLTYPE EQ 'M';
ON TABLE HOLD AS METAMEAS END
TABLE FILE METAMEAS SUM COMPUTE VARNAME/A20='MEASURE' || EDIT(LIST,'$$$$9'); BY JOINKEY ON TABLE HOLD AS HOLDMEAS FORMAT ALPHA END
-* GET DEFAULT DIMENSIONS TABLE FILE METAHOLD1 LIST NAME JOINKEY BY TBNAME WHERE (GA_COLTYPE NE 'DX' OR 'M' OR 'F') ON TABLE HOLD AS METADIM END
TABLE FILE METADIM SUM COMPUTE VARNAME/A20='DIMENSION' || EDIT(LIST,'$$$$9'); BY JOINKEY ON TABLE HOLD AS HOLDDIM FORMAT ALPHA END
TABLE FILE HOLDMEAS SUM VARNAME BY JOINKEY ON TABLE HOLD AS METAVARS FORMAT FOCUS INDEX JOINKEY MORE FILE HOLDDIM END
JOIN JOINKEY IN METAHOLD1 TO UNIQUE JOINKEY IN METAVARS AS J1 TABLE FILE METAHOLD1 PRINT USAGE TITLE PASSED_COLUMN DEFTEXT GA_COLTYPE LONGDESC VARNAME BY TBNAME BY NAME WHERE TITLE NE '' ON TABLE HOLD AS METAHOLD2 END -RUN
TABLE FILE METAHOLD2 PRINT * ON TABLE HOLD AS EXTMETADATA FORMAT ALPHA END
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