| Title: | FOCUS, from INFORMATION BUILDERS |
| Moderator: | ZAYIUS::BROUILLETTE |
| Created: | Thu Feb 19 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Mon May 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 615 |
| Total number of notes: | 1779 |
I've been working on a cost center report for our ledger, one thing that
is required on this report is that the fiscal month and the fiscal month
ending date be displayed on each page header. At this point, I did not
want to create a segment in my master file since I felt that it would be
somewhat wasteful. Instead, I felt that maybe I could somehow read the
file with this information, the closing card file, and use it to print
the information on the header.
I've tried using the MODIFY command but that requires an output filename
to write the data to. Also, when I tried to print out the data values
that I had read in, an error was returned since the fieldnames were not
recognized.
Has anyone out there read information in from an external file and used
it in a request? Or would it be easier just to create the segment.
Any help is appreciated,
Victor Lebario
BLITZN::LEBARIO
522-2849
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 93.1 | ideas | FR0002::MADDEN | Fri Jul 22 1988 15:52 | 8 | |
We use two methods to get fiscal month and begining and end dates
in reports.
1. Include fex's which set &fm etc.
2. From a host file we cross reference to a date reference file
Oh I almost forgot, we also have a CALENDAR.DAT which we read using
dialogue manager code to find fiscal dates based on input dates.
richard
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| 93.2 | Use Dialogue Mgr. and '&' variables. | NRPUR::CUSACK | Fri Jul 29 1988 15:37 | 8 | |
Create an external reference file as noted in reply 1, and using
dialogue manager you can read this file and assign the fiscal month
and year to dialogue manager variables - i.e., &FM, &FY. Then execute
the table request from inside the dialogue manager routine, and
you will be able to print the dialogue manager variables in the
header of the report.
-Mike Cusack
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| 93.3 | '&' variables and Subroutines | BLITZN::LEBARIO | Sun Jul 31 1988 12:46 | 20 | |
Thanks for the replies, I did use the Dialogue manager with the
"&" variables and everything worked just fine. One trick I tried
to do was use the variable &FM, which is a numeric month, and input
it into a locally created subroutine to convert it to a string, and
I kept getting the error
FOC062 POINT TO CALCULATE FIELD IS NOT SUPPLIED...'USE WITH'
I called the HOTLINE in Dallas and they really couldn't give an
answer but suggested I use DECODE instead. I since have used
DECODE and everything worked fine, but does anyone out there
know why this error occurs?
BTW, I did test the subroutine using a numeric month from a segment
and it worked okay, it's just when I try to pass it a FOCUS variable
that it has this trouble. Also, the subroutine is written in COBOL.
Again, thanks in advance for your help
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| 93.4 | FOC062 Error... | NRPUR::CUSACK | Mon Aug 01 1988 12:06 | 19 | |
<FOC062 POINT TO CALCULATE FIELD IS NOT SUPPLIED ... USE WITH>
That error generally occurs when you are defining a field for a
report and Focus can't figure out which segment the calculation
or defined field belongs to. So what you have to do in this case
is tell Focus in what segment to place the defined field or
calculation. Example:
DEFINE FILE PROD
NCOUNT/I5 WITH COST = NCOUNT+1;
END
In this case PROD is the Focus file and COST is a field in one of
the segments of PROD. NCOUNT is a temporary field. I'm still
not sure from your description exactly what you are doing in your
situation but perhaps this might help some. If it doesn't, maybe
with a more detailed description I could help more.
-Mike
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