Quiz Reporting Errors

[pickerij@norbord.com]

Richard Kessler writes ...

>We have recompiled all our production code using a CANCEL CLEAR
>between each QUIZ, but are still getting reports that do not subtotal
>all numbers.  We are recompiling the erroneous reports, one by one,
>as we find them. Then everything is ok.  Am not tooo concerned to
>find a solution now, as we don't expect to recompile everything like
>this very soon.  But wanted to give some feedback here for
>others to be on the lookout for similar problems.

You weren't listening when all the answers flooded in pointing out that   
Quiz reports will inherit whatever SET statements are in effect at the   
time they are compiled. CANCEL CLEAR cancels the current report   
specifications and empties QUIZSAVE. From the manual "the CANCEL   
statement does not cancel SET statements, except SET PAGE TITLE and SET   
SUBFILE."

You really need to preface each Quiz with a SET DEFAULT or exit Quiz and   
run it again for each source file.

And I am surprised that you do not anticipate another mass compile   
anytime soon. We're on our fourth version of 8.19 and everything gets   
recompiled after every version change. And each time the database changes   
we simply recompile everything - much simpler than impact analysis and   
individual compiles.

John Pickering
Toronto  

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