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electricbright
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Hi All,

Is it possible to have a dynamic BY field in a Report.

For Eg:

TBALE FILE XYZ
PRINT
*
BY &VAR
ON TABLE HOLD AS MYHOLD
END

Here &VAR will be passed from either a jsp or html.

Any thoughts?

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Posts: 9 | Registered: January 05, 2012Report This Post
MichaelBalle
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try this:

  
-SET &var1 = 'COUNTRY';
-SET &var2 = 'CAR';
-SET &var3 = 'MODEL';
-*
TABLE FILE CAR
  SUM
    DEALER_COST
    RETAIL_COST
  BY &var1
  BY &var2
  BY &var3
END
-RUN
-SET &var1 = 'MODEL';
-SET &var2 = 'COUNTRY';
-SET &var3 = 'CAR';
-*
TABLE FILE CAR
  SUM
    DEALER_COST
    RETAIL_COST
  BY &var1
  BY &var2
  BY &var3
END


WebFOCUS 7.6, 7.7
Windows, All Output formats
 
Posts: 90 | Location: Stuttgart | Registered: October 20, 2010Report This Post
electricbright
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Thanks Michael for your suggestion.

I will try this and get back to you.
 
Posts: 9 | Registered: January 05, 2012Report This Post
Doug
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Use -DEFAULT or -DEFAULTH instead of the -SET to allow the value to change to that which is incoming from your jsp or html page...
 
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Waz
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Because Dialog Manager (& vars and - commands) are a preprocessor, this is quite possible, and every part of the TABLE request can be parameterised.


Waz...

Prod:WebFOCUS 7.6.10/8.1.04Upgrade:WebFOCUS 8.2.07OS:LinuxOutputs:HTML, PDF, Excel, PPT
In Focus since 1984
Pity the lost knowledge of an old programmer!

 
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njsden
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quote:
and every part of the TABLE request can be parameterised.


True! Smiler That's once of the amazing and powerful things of the Dialogue Manager and [Web]FOCUS language combination.

-DEFAULT &VTABLE  = 'CAR';
-DEFAULT &VVERB   = 'PRINT';
-DEFAULT &VFIELD  = 'CAR AND MODEL AND SEATS';
-DEFAULT &VBY     = 'COUNTRY';
-DEFAULT &VWHERE  = 'COUNTRY EQ ''JAPAN''';
-DEFAULT &VFORMAT = 'HTML';

TABLE FILE &VTABLE
&VVERB
&VFIELD
BY &VBY
WHERE &VWHERE
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT &VFORMAT
END



That's a very simplistic way to implement some sort of adhoc reporting functionality.


Or course, one can go to extremes and make that code even more "dynamic" than what the example shows, but I wouldn't like to be the one maintaining it in the future Music


Prod/Dev: WF Server 8008/Win 2008 - WF Client 8008/Win 2008 - Dev. Studio: 8008/Windows 7 - DBMS: Oracle 11g Rel 2
Test: Dev. Studio 8008 /Windows 7 (Local) Output:HTML, EXL2K.
 
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electricbright
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Thanks MichaelBalle,Doug,Waz and njsden.

This works fine for me now.


WebFocus 7.7
Windows,UNIX
Output Formats HTML, Excel,PDF
 
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