[EXTERNAL] Re: having issues using index for a file

[Helen Wellcome]

Didn't work
I believe I had tried that before. But I re-tried
I would have thought it would have worked.  Don't know why its being so picky

set process nolimit
> access google_students_201920 alias xwork
> sort on student_num
> define xemail1 char*45 = email
> define xemail2 char*45 = " "
> subfile xsthelentestgoogle keep at student_num include student_num, xemail1, xemail2 index student_num
*E* Item specified for index/segment not part of subfile include list.
> go

From: Murray Scholz <murray.scholz at abri.une.edu.au>
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2020 8:15 PM
To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com; Helen Wellcome <HWellcom at wsboces.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: having issues using index for a file


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Hello Helen,
I think it's just complaining about the syntax of your subfile statement. Put the "index student_num" at the end, after your list of items.
eg.
> access parameters
> sort on file-type
> define a1 char*60 = param-descript
> define a2 char*60 = " "
> subfile xxxyyyzzz keep at file-type include file-type,a1,a2 index file-type
> go

Executing request 1 ...

Records read:
 PARAMETERS                              110

Transactions processed:                  110

Records processed:                     Added    Updated  Unchanged    Deleted
 XXXYYYZZZ                                27          0          0          0

Finished.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Hope that helps.

Regards
Murray Scholz

Agricultural Business Research Institute

University of New England

Armidale NSW 2351 Australia

Email murray.scholz at abri.une.edu.au<mailto:murray.scholz at abri.une.edu.au>
On 21/08/20 10:00 am, Helen Wellcome wrote:
I have been coding with qtp for many years but am having a brain-lock.

I have a file of students with emails. There are some students with 2 records and has caused problems on one of the reports , by listing a course twice.
I wanted to take this file and create a file with    student_num    email1    email2   (one record for the student)


set process nolimit
> access google_students_201920 alias xwork
> sort on student_num
> define xemail1 char*45 = email
> define xemail2 char*45 = " "
> subfile xsthelnetestgoogle at student_num index student_num keep include student_num, xemail1, xemail2
                                            ^^^^^
*E* Expected:  .  OF  PORTABLE  FORMAT  <eol>  ALIAS  AT  IF  ON  APPEND
      NOAPPEND  KEEP  TEMPORARY  DICTIONARY  NODICTIONARY  INCLUDE

If there was no error I then had setup:
Access google_students_201920 alias xwork &
Link student_num of xwork to student_num of *xsthelentestgoogle alias xtemp
Select if email of xwork <> xemail1 of xtemp
Output *xsthelentestgoogle update
Item xemail2 of *xsthelentestgoogle final email

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