Comparing dates - Squeeze two records into one.
David Morrison - Corporate
dmorrison@mcbrideelectric.com
Fri, 29 Aug 2003 07:32:38 -0700
Seamus,
I think its more elegant to sort on employee number, then date, and then output at employee number with the date from the last record.
David Morrison
McBride Electric
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From: Seamus Browne [mailto:Seamus.Browne@partage.org]
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 7:15 AM
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Subject: Comparing dates - Squeeze two records into one.
You may find this helpful. I often did.
OK, it is not a one pass trick, but it avoids having to compare data in
one record with data in the next record. IMO, Quiz is not so good at
that.
In the first pass, get the first date leaving the second date blank (0).
In the second pass, get the second date leaving the first date blank
(0).
In the third pass, combine the two records for each employee doing a
KEEP AT EMPLOYEE_NO, using a MAX on both dates so as to save the
significant date and drop the blank (0) date.
Then you can compare the dates within the same record.
;First pass
acc employees
define first-date date = employee_file_date_item
define second-date date = 0
set sub name outfile keep
rep sum employee_no &,
first_date &,
second_date
go
;Second pass
acc the_other_file
define first-date date = 0
define second_date date = second_file_date_item
set sub name outfile APPEND
rep sum employee_no &,
first_date &,
second_date
go
;Third pass
acc *outfile
sort on employee_no
set sub name outfile2 KEEP AT EMPLOYEE_NO
rep sum employee_no &,
first_date MAX &,
second_date MAX
go
Does anyone know the technical term for this method ?
I call it Squeezing because it kinda squeezes two records together.
Seamus@partage.org
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1. Record count in Quiz (Mike Palandri)
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4. RE:Record count in Quiz (Edis, Robert)
5. RE:Record count in Quiz (Mike Palandri)
6. Re:Record count in Quiz (Markus Grossrieder)
7. Re:Record count in Quiz (Chris Sharman)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:41:57 -0700
From: Mike Palandri <palandri@4j.lane.edu>
Subject: Record count in Quiz
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Is there any way to get a hold of the record count in Quiz, so that its
value would be 1 when the first record was read, 2 when the second was
read, 3 when the third was read etc.?
I am trying to convert a report based on a QTP to Quiz, and the
technique
used requires the record count. This is done with temps in QTP, but I
can't seem to come up with it for Quiz:
TEMP TI-REC-CNT INT*10
[...]
ITEM TI-REC-CNT = TI-REC-CNT + 1
Thanks,
Mike
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Subject: RE: Record count in Quiz
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 16:01:43 +0100
From: "Noack, Andreas M (GESM)" <Andreas.Noack@gesm.ge.com>
To: <powerh-l@lists.swau.edu>
Cc: "Mike Palandri" <palandri@4j.lane.edu>
Hello Mike,
maybe I am too simplistic here, then correct...
I would create a numeric defined item with value 1 and at report
statement subtotal this. If indeed you need the count value per record
for some calculation then report to subfile and use it in a second
report.
Kind regards
g GE Water Technologies
-----------------------------------------
Andreas Noack
IT Team Europe
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From: Mike Palandri [mailto:palandri@4j.lane.edu]
Sent: Mittwoch, 27. August 2003 16:42
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Subject: Record count in Quiz
Is there any way to get a hold of the record count in Quiz, so that its
value would be 1 when the first record was read, 2 when the second was
read, 3 when the third was read etc.?
I am trying to convert a report based on a QTP to Quiz, and the
technique
used requires the record count. This is done with temps in QTP, but I
can't seem to come up with it for Quiz:
TEMP TI-REC-CNT INT*10
[...]
ITEM TI-REC-CNT = TI-REC-CNT + 1
Thanks,
Mike
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Subject: SV: Record count in Quiz
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:04:17 +0200
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You can put it into a subfile like:
acc....
define cnt = 1
rep sum .... cnt subtotal noreset
set subfile name ...
mvh/regards
Bjørn Selfors, Delfi Data a.s.
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Emne: Record count in Quiz
Is there any way to get a hold of the record count in Quiz, so that its
value would be 1 when the first record was read, 2 when the second was
read, 3 when the third was read etc.?
I am trying to convert a report based on a QTP to Quiz, and the
technique
used requires the record count. This is done with temps in QTP, but I
can't seem to come up with it for Quiz:
TEMP TI-REC-CNT INT*10
[...]
ITEM TI-REC-CNT = TI-REC-CNT + 1
Thanks,
Mike
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Subject: RE: Record count in Quiz
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:16:35 -0500
From: "Edis, Robert" <REdis@Blistex.com>
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Doesn't Quiz have a summary operation called COUNT?
Blue
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From: Mike Palandri [mailto:palandri@4j.lane.edu]
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Subject: Record count in Quiz
Is there any way to get a hold of the record count in Quiz, so that its
value would be 1 when the first record was read, 2 when the second was
read, 3 when the third was read etc.?
I am trying to convert a report based on a QTP to Quiz, and the
technique
used requires the record count. This is done with temps in QTP, but I
can't seem to come up with it for Quiz:
TEMP TI-REC-CNT INT*10
[...]
ITEM TI-REC-CNT = TI-REC-CNT + 1
Thanks,
Mike
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 08:22:19 -0700
From: Mike Palandri <palandri@4j.lane.edu>
Subject: RE: Record count in Quiz
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Thanks for all the tips. I need the record count to sort on, so a
summary
operation such as count or subtotal won't help.
The problem is to read a record and save the value of one of the fields
so
it may be compared with another field in the next record. This is to
determine if the date range in the first record overlaps the range in
the
second. I've been sorting on the record count in QTP in order to
provide a
break on each record...
SORT ON EMP-NO, POS-NO, DATE-PLAN-START, TI-REC-CNT
...then saving an end date field in a temp when the record count breaks
(which it does on every record)...
ITEM TD-END-TMP = DATE-PLAN-END AT TI-REC-CNT RESET AT POS-NO
...so it can be compared with the start date in the next record:
DEF TC-DUP-FLAG CHAR*01 = "Y" &
IF TD-END-TMP <> 0 AND TD-END-TMP >= DATE-PLAN-START
&
ELSE ""
This tells me if the end date in record (n) is >= to the start date in
record (n + 1), if so the range in the second record overlaps the range
in
the first, and it is written to a subfile to be reported in Quiz
What I am trying to do is make this a simple one pass Quiz. I may as
well
keep the current QTP method if I am going to be forced to use two
passes
and a subfile in Quiz.
I can see as I think through what I am writing here, that I would also
have
an issue converting the ITEM TD-END-TMP... statement to Quiz as well.
Perhaps it's just not worth the trouble.
Thanks again.
At 10:03 AM 08/27/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>You can't use temp's in quiz and you cannot reference the count
>function
>directly. You can however use a defined variable to do the same thing.
>
>ACCESS CUSTOMERS
>
>DEFINE CTR NUM*4 = 1
>
>REPORT SUMMARY CUSTOMER-NUMBER CTR SUB NORESET
>
>GO
>
>This will increment the CTR variable for each record complex.
>
>
>
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>From: Mike Palandri [mailto:palandri@4j.lane.edu]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:42 AM
>To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
>Subject: Record count in Quiz
>
>
>Is there any way to get a hold of the record count in Quiz, so that its
>value would be 1 when the first record was read, 2 when the second was
>read, 3 when the third was read etc.?
>
>
>I am trying to convert a report based on a QTP to Quiz, and the
>technique used requires the record count. This is done with temps in
>QTP, but I can't seem to come up with it for Quiz:
>
>TEMP TI-REC-CNT INT*10
>
>[...]
>
>ITEM TI-REC-CNT = TI-REC-CNT + 1
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>Mike
>.
>
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From: "Markus Grossrieder" <markus.grossrieder@alba-systems.com>
To: "Mike Palandri" <palandri@4j.lane.edu>, <powerh-l@lists.swau.edu>
Subject: Re: Record count in Quiz
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:25:54 +0200
Hi Mike,
DEFINE D_COUNT INT*8 = 1
...
REPORT ... D_COUNT SUBTOT
should work !
If you want to use it in footings, it will reset itself unless you use
NORESET resp. RESET AT ...
HTH, regards,
Markus
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Subject: Record count in Quiz
> Is there any way to get a hold of the record count in Quiz, so that
> its value would be 1 when the first record was read, 2 when the second
> was read, 3 when the third was read etc.?
>
>
> I am trying to convert a report based on a QTP to Quiz, and the
> technique used requires the record count. This is done with temps in
> QTP, but I can't seem to come up with it for Quiz:
>
> TEMP TI-REC-CNT INT*10
>
> [...]
>
> ITEM TI-REC-CNT = TI-REC-CNT + 1
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Mike
> .
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Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 18:19:52 +0100
From: Chris Sharman <chris.sharman@ccagroup.co.uk>
To: Mike Palandri <palandri@4j.lane.edu>,
PowerH List
<powerh-l@lists.swau.edu>
Subject: Re: Record count in Quiz
Mike Palandri wrote:
> Is there any way to get a hold of the record count in Quiz, so that
> its
> value would be 1 when the first record was read, 2 when the second was
> read, 3 when the third was read etc.?
>
> I am trying to convert a report based on a QTP to Quiz, and the
> technique used requires the record count. This is done with temps in
> QTP, but I can't seem to come up with it for Quiz:
count works for reports of course, but not for subfiles, for which you
need something like:
def kount int*9 = 1
rep sum kount subt noreset
Chris
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