QTP: OUTPUT AT

[Kesterson, Roger]

Yes, of course.  Thanks!

Just one of those days, I guess...

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> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 7:36 AM
> To: Roger.Kesterson@mtdsw.com
> Subject: Re: QTP: OUTPUT AT
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> QTP updates at the end of a control break (unless you have AT START OF
> statement), but initializes the fields of the record at the 
> start of the
> control break. Since you have INITIAL statement, you should 
> expect this.
> Change it to FINAL and will be fine.
> 
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> Roger.Kesterson@mtdsw.com@cube.swau.edu - 18/09/2001 16:18
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> Subject:  QTP: OUTPUT AT
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> PH 7.10.G2, OpenVMS 7.1
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> 
> In the QTP manual, it says that without the START OF option, 
> an OUTPUT AT
> action is performed at the end of a transaction group.  I have a QTP
> program
> similar to the following:
> 
> ACCESS BOM1
> 
> SORT ON PARENT_PART ON COMPONENT_PART ON EFFECTIVE_START_DATE
> 
> OUTPUT BOM2 ADD AT COMPONENT_PART
> ITEM EFFECTIVE_START_DATE OF BOM2 INITIAL EFFECTIVE_START_DATE OF BOM1
> 
> I would have expected the file BOM2 to get the record with the latest
> effective start date, but it actually gets the earliest.  The 
> effective
> start date is a VMSDATE.  I tried converting it to a CHAR*8 
> (YYYYMMDD), and
> sorting on that, but got the same results.  I didn't get the desired
> results
> until I changed the sort to:
> 
> SORT ON PARENT_PART ON COMPONENT_PART ON EFFECTIVE_START_DATE D
> 
> This seems to contradict the manual, or is my brain just not 
> functioning
> correctly today?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Roger Kesterson
> Senior Programming Analyst
> MTD Southwest, Inc.
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