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Nailzz
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Hi all, I have created a report that enables the user to type in a specific date and employee id to see that employees information. But at the same time I want the report to generate even if they just put in a date. Is there a way it can give them all employees for a date range when the prompt for employee id is left blank?


WebFOCUS 7.1.3 on Win 2000
 
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Kamesh
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Yes, you can do that. Use DEFAULT in your report that gets the value. Set the default value to ALL and check for that in your query.

ex:

-DEFAULT &ENAME='ALL';
-DEFAULT &DT='ALL';

TABLE FILE EMPLOYEE
PRINT *
-IF &ENAME EQ 'ALL' THEN GOTO SKIPENAME;
WHERE EMPNAME EQ &ENAME
-SKIPENAME
-IF &DT EQ 'ALL' THEN GOTO SKIPDT;
WHERE EDATE EQ &DT
-SKIPDT
END


WFConsultant

WF 8105M on Win7/Tomcat
 
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Nailzz
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THANK YOU!!!! This is exactly what I needed.


WebFOCUS 7.1.3 on Win 2000
 
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TexasStingray
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Nailzz

if you are at a releative current version of WebFOCUS you can use the FOC_NONE. Here is how it works. Whenever, WebFOCUS see a variable with it value of FOC_NONE WebFOCUS will disregard that line/statement.

So if the variable is blank set it to FOC_NONE like so.

  
-SET &NAME = IF &NAME.EVAL EQ '' THEN 'FOC_NONE' ELSE '&NAME';
-RUN


Using this all you have to have in the table request is 
  
WHERE NAME EQ '&NAME';


This also allows you to still use the Report Painter.




Scott

 
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