ianls
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Sorry if these questions is a bit obvious or have been covered before but I
am an experienced World programmer getting my head around OneWorld and none
of the manuals,courses, books etc. tell me how to do things I want to do.
So if anyone knows any stuff that is available for World programmers moving
to OW I would be grateful.
Anyhow here is my problem. I have to reproduce a report that we use on
World a lot which shows the status of a property (a cost centre) with
regard to any leases it has. Now we must know if a property has a current
lease but also if it does not. In World a sub program reads the cost
centre, then the program finds if there is any current lease for that unit
of the cost centre or not. This is then put into a temporary file which is
then the primary for the dream writer to be sorted and totalled at will.
The temporary file is then dumped when the report is finished.
Now I have tried for days to rewrite the report in OW and have the
following questions:
1. Temporary file. Doesn't seem to work in OW unless I use a file keyed on
jobnumber and delete all records at the end of the report. Any other way?
2. Sections. If I view the F0006/F1507 and then read for the leases I am
fetching and looping a lot in the Do section. Is this the right way to do
it or should I call a subsection with a view over the leases selected by
the cost centre required (requiring me to create a large number of
variables to pass data between sections)?
3. Business View. I would like to do all the work in the busines view and
not have a work file but I need to link the F0006 equally with the Unit
Master (F1507) and then an outer join the the lease file (F15017) so that I
get all the F006 records and the F15017 records if they exist. But I can't
seem to get the outer join in the design I need I only get equal joins!
Any help would be must aprreciated (sorry about the length).
__________
Ian Sewell
'Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe
that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic'
Paul Muad'Dib
am an experienced World programmer getting my head around OneWorld and none
of the manuals,courses, books etc. tell me how to do things I want to do.
So if anyone knows any stuff that is available for World programmers moving
to OW I would be grateful.
Anyhow here is my problem. I have to reproduce a report that we use on
World a lot which shows the status of a property (a cost centre) with
regard to any leases it has. Now we must know if a property has a current
lease but also if it does not. In World a sub program reads the cost
centre, then the program finds if there is any current lease for that unit
of the cost centre or not. This is then put into a temporary file which is
then the primary for the dream writer to be sorted and totalled at will.
The temporary file is then dumped when the report is finished.
Now I have tried for days to rewrite the report in OW and have the
following questions:
1. Temporary file. Doesn't seem to work in OW unless I use a file keyed on
jobnumber and delete all records at the end of the report. Any other way?
2. Sections. If I view the F0006/F1507 and then read for the leases I am
fetching and looping a lot in the Do section. Is this the right way to do
it or should I call a subsection with a view over the leases selected by
the cost centre required (requiring me to create a large number of
variables to pass data between sections)?
3. Business View. I would like to do all the work in the busines view and
not have a work file but I need to link the F0006 equally with the Unit
Master (F1507) and then an outer join the the lease file (F15017) so that I
get all the F006 records and the F15017 records if they exist. But I can't
seem to get the outer join in the design I need I only get equal joins!
Any help would be must aprreciated (sorry about the length).
__________
Ian Sewell
'Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe
that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic'
Paul Muad'Dib
