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scooter6 at gmail.com scooter6 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 15 08:07:51 PDT 2020


Yes     rreport  client  -f  summary -u -a -v select -ih     with index H
being received date

On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 11:04 AM Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> Are you using a -v selection process?
>
> I am going to assume that you are already indicating the index mentioned
> on the command line. Is this assumption correct?
>
>
>
> Richard
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jul 15, 2020, at 7:32 AM, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list <
> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> >
> > Call me crazy but doesn't filePro allow for the "sort" to be changed
> from within the -v processing table?
> >
> > If that is the case, will not work if you
> >
> > a. convert date into a YY-MM-DD format
> > b. create string like so DATE + CONTROL + [ whatever ]
> >
> > use filePro available method to set the sort order.  By the time your
> processing triggers, your data should be in the order you desire.
> >
> > If filePro does observe the "date" field as a "date" and not as string
> when sorting, I fail to see how this cannot be done using standard sort
> settings ASC/DES combination.  Of course, if your fields are not in
> sequence, using the -v table might be the way to go.
> >
> >
> >> On 7/15/20 6:03 AM, Jeff Harrison via Filepro-list wrote:
> >> It's been a while, but I think that you can leverage the min and max
> functions for this.
> >> In your processing at line 1 (before the @brk) do something like
> ;Aa=min(acctfield) ; ab=max(acctfield)
> >> Now you can reference aa and ab when you are at the break and will have
> the expected values.
> >>
> >> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
> >>     On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 1:59 AM, scooter6--- via Filepro-list<
> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:   I guess that's the part I'm
> struggling with - since I'm using index for
> >> date, the first record it finds may not be the lowest number in that
> 'batch'
> >> Would it be better to create an index on date and full account number,
> then
> >> grab the first 'acct'?
> >> thanks
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 3:59 PM Bruce Easton via Filepro-list <
> >> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Scott - if the only problem is the Starting Acct#, then, are you using
> a
> >>> global field to track when the Starting Acct# is less than one
> >>> previously encountered within a Ctl#?  (And then resetting it back to
> >>> an arbitrarily high value when you start a new Ctl# after reporting the
> >>> Ctl#?)
> >>>
> >>> Bruce
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 7/13/20 2:12 PM, scooter6--- via Filepro-list wrote:
> >>>> I have a database that has this type structure
> >>>>
> >>>> Clt            Acct          Full Acct                  Date Received
> >>>> -------        ---------      ----------------------
> >>>>   -----------------------
> >>>> 01234        00010      01234-00010          06/01/20
> >>>> 01234        00011      01234-00011          06/01/20
> >>>> 01234        00012      01234-00012          06/05/20
> >>>> 01234        00013      01234-00013          06/10/20
> >>>> 01235        00250      01235-00250          06/01/20
> >>>> 01235        00251      01235-00251          06/05/20
> >>>>
> >>>> I want to create a report with oldest received date first and a
> 'summary'
> >>>> line for each batch then in Clt number order
> >>>>
> >>>> For example, for the above data set, I want to see
> >>>>
> >>>> Date Rec'd      Clt            Starting Acct      Ending Acct
> >>> Total
> >>>> in Batch
> >>>> ---------------      -----------    -----------------
> >>>> ----------------        ------------------
> >>>> 06/01/20          01234        00010              00011
> >>>>           2
> >>>> 06/01/20          01235        00250              00250
> >>>>           1
> >>>>                             Total Received 06/01/20
> >>>>                 3
> >>>>
> >>>> 06/05/20          01234        00012              00012
> >>>>           1
> >>>> 06/05/20          01235        00251              00251
> >>>>           1
> >>>>                             Total Received 06/05/20
> >>>>               2
> >>>>
> >>>> 06/10/20          01234        00013              00013
> >>>>           1
> >>>>                               Total Received 06/10/20
> >>>>                 1
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> When I do @wbrk1 - I can get the Ending Account and the Total but even
> >>> if I
> >>>> declare the Starting Acct before @wbrk1 - both variables still come
> out
> >>> the
> >>>> same - so I'm apparently missing something there
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm using sort order of Date Rec'd and descending and subtotal and
> >>> subtotal
> >>>> on Clt
> >>>> Running this rreport with -ih  (index H which is Date Rec'd)
> >>>>
> >>>> I can post full processing table if that helps - but each report
> dataline
> >>>> is a field in the actual file
> >>>> There is a little more I'm doing with it other than this, but it's
> really
> >>>> just displaying a few of the other fields - so didn't want to confuse
> by
> >>>> posting the full prc table
> >>>>
> >>>> thanks
> >>>> Scott
> >>>> PDM
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