RE: IWP/Jacana

[Bernard Green <bgreen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Lloyd,

Let me say up from that I'm with the IWP/Jacana authors - Momentum
Utilities.

A ranking report is straightforward in Jacana - you can sort (descending) by
a total that has been built in the extract pass.

Your specific requirement (i.e. a run-time user choice to print only the top
"n") is also achievable although there are likely be some caveats/questions
concerning the design of the Subset you are using, what you want to rank and
exactly how you want to rank it.  However, such reports, built using Jacana,
are achievable and they do exist amongst our customer base.

However, there would be some questions as to specifics for such a report and
this may not be the ideal forum in which to go into detail about all the
possibilities.

If you are interested to take this "off-line" with me I will be happy to
offer some suggestions.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Bernard Green
Application Consultant
Momentum Utilities Pty Ltd
Sydney, Australia
E-mail: bgreen@jacana.com
www.jacana


-----Original Message-----
From: LDEGNON@AMPRO.COM [mailto:LDEGNON@AMPRO.COM]
Sent: Friday, 11 January 2002 4:26
To: MApics-l@midrange.com
Subject: IWP/Jacana


Hello folks,

An IWP/Jacana question:


How do I write a report that, among the select criteria, is a selection
value
that asks how many records I want returned?

For example, I create a report that returns customer, Items shipped,
quantity
and net dollar value of shipments for selected date range in descending
order.

What do I add to select criteria that will let me tell report at run time,
how
may of the records I want returned? (top 10, top 25, top 50, etc.)

Attached/Below is example of what I have so far, but all customers are
returned.
(thousands of pages) Upper management might, at runtime, want info on the
top
ten customers at run time...


Cust Number/Name            Item        Description         QTY     Net
30705   XYZ CORPORATION     8550334A    CBL-SVG-Q-01    48    1,248.00
30705       XYZ CORPORATION         8450404B  MM2-SVG-Q-73      48
11,616.00
                   Totals for XYZ CORPORATION
12,864.00

11070   123 Inc.                8250334A    CBL-SVG-Q-95    10      500.00

11070       123 Inc.                    8440404B  CM2-SVG-Q-45      5
2500.00
                   Totals for 123 Inc.
3000.00


Lloyd H. Degnon
Ampro Computers Inc.
5215 Hellyer Ave
San Jose, CA 95138
408.360.4365
Ldegnon@ampro.com
WWW.AMPRO.COM
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