Newbie here looking for Help with Reports

[s.hackleman]

I need a simple A5 page to build an .xml report, and drop it on a local share. I have the report written, but it is accessing a 16 million record database. I want to have 3 pull down combo boxes that have Store, Chain, and product category listed and a simple button to run the report. When the button is pressed it would call the save report function via xbasic, and only pull the 7,000 records from the DB I am looking for, and build the report on that. I have tried using filter expressions in the xbasic call, but it still seems to want to pull the entire 16 million records down before it will build the report, causing my system to time out, and take to long to process. Thanks for the help ahead of time.

[lgrupido]

Re: Newbie here looking for Help with Reports

What type of database is it? (SQL or Alpha)

[s.hackleman]

Re: Newbie here looking for Help with Reports

Sql 2008

[lgrupido]

Re: Newbie here looking for Help with Reports

Here is what I would do:

Create a grid and setup your search parameters as you would for any grid. If you want to keep the traffic down, then disallow showing the grid until search criteria is presented.

Then create an action button on the grid to run the report. In the SQL filter put: currentgridfilter()

That will run your report with the sql filter in place, exactly as you search for it in the grid and it will run on the back-end.

The key here is that there is a local filter and sql filter for each report based on sql. You need to make sure you are filling in the SQL filter, not the local filter.

[s.hackleman]

Re: Newbie here looking for Help with Reports

Just for testing I am using my working preview, and trying to save the report to my local desktop. This is the XBasic I put in on the button trigger. If I put it in a button on every line, it doesn't work. If I put the button in the record detail, also doesn't work. If I put it on a button on the UX that holds the drop downs to limit the grid, the report runs, but is not filtered.

Report.saveas("Product","TXT",currentgridfilter(),currentgridorder(),"C:\Users\User\Desktop\Product.xml",.t.)

[lgrupido]

Re: Newbie here looking for Help with Reports

I don't think the currentgridfilter will work in that instance. It is for running a report from a button, not from within xbasic.

However, what you want is to use the "options" section to specify your filter, not the filter section. Filter will filter locally, options.filter will append to the where clause.

Look in the documentation under object.saveas. They have a good example of a sql filter in there using options.filter.

[GGandhi]

Re: Newbie here looking for Help with Reports

hello

i do not know if you have solved this issue.
if not here are the steps
1> create a report based on the sqldatasource with where clause
2> create a button on the tabbed_ui if you are using or some place to call that report
3> on the panel to define the report being called fill in info and then define the arguments binding
that should work.
here is a video to show it works
http://screencast.com/t/LTeebud7uY
please post back if this is what you are looking or if you need more help.

[s.hackleman]

Re: Newbie here looking for Help with Reports

I am still not getting exactly what I want, maybe I am going about this completely wrong. I have a SQL data source, and I am building a web app. I need to set 4 criteria on the UX. Then display the results on a read only grid on the UX. I have that much. Then I would like a button on the UX to take that subset of data, to build a XML report, and save it on the server, or a share local to the server. I have a report that takes the data from the SQL source, and builds a .xml file from that data. I just need a button trigger it, and pass the limiting criteria. The report.saveas in the xbasic code does 90% of what I am looking for, but takes forever to run. I think the options.filter that lgrupido mentioned is what I need, but how do I get the information from the UX dropdowns into that filter? Thanks for working with me, I am still learning A5.

[lgrupido]

Re: Newbie here looking for Help with Reports

What version of Alpha 5 are you using?

[s.hackleman]

Re: Newbie here looking for Help with Reports

Version 12

[GGandhi]

Re: Newbie here looking for Help with Reports

Version 12

sorry to have answered before, i do not have version 12. so do not know anything about it.
besides, this should have been posted in the version 12 forum. then you will get ton of help.

[s.hackleman]

Re: Newbie here looking for Help with Reports

That is my bad, just updated and didn't even think about that before I posted the question.

[lgrupido]

Re: Newbie here looking for Help with Reports

Whether version 12 or 11, the concept is similar.

I did a test and here is a function that worked for me. IN the function, below, I have a table called AAC with two fields. AAC and AACDescription.

AAC is a value from A to Z. I am filtering for AAC = "v" only.

This is an example of how to use it, the trick is to get the current filter values. Currentgridfilter did not work for me either.

However, look at e._gridcurrentfilter, e._gridcurrentarguments and e._gridcurrentargumentsxml

and you'll get a little farther along. (or look at their UX equivalents in V12)

FUNCTION printaac as c (e as p)

dim options as p

options.filter = "aac = 'v'"

options.order = "aac"


Report.saveas("tblaac","TXT","","","C:\a5webroot\tblaac.txt",.t.,"","",Options)

printaac = ""

END FUNCTION

[s.hackleman]

Re: Newbie here looking for Help with Reports

Here is my code in Alpha 5.

dim options as p
options.filter = "COMPANY = 'T-VIN' .and. STOREID = 'T-VIN-0001' .and. INV_CATEG = 'DVD' .and. INV_U_QTY >= 3"
options.order = "INV_U_QTY"

report.saveas("Product","TXT", "", "","C:\Users\s.hackleman\Desktop\Product.txt",.f.,null_value(),"",options)

When running the statement

SELECT COMPANY, STOREID, INV_SKU, INV_CATEG, INV_DESC1, INV_U_QTY FROM dbo.INV 
where COMPANY = 'T-VIN' and STOREID = 'T-VIN-0001' and INV_CATEG = 'DVD'and INV_U_QTY >=3;

on the SQL server, I return 2,000 rows in less than 2 seconds.

When I run it in A5, the Window grey's out and I let it sit for an hour. I ended up having to force-ably close Alpha 5. I had a 1.2 GB corrupted PDF on my desktop. It seems as if it is trying to build the report for all 16 million records. Is there something that looks wrong in my code?

[lgrupido]

Re: Newbie here looking for Help with Reports

You only use .and. when doing xbasic.

Since this query is going straight to SQL, you just use AND like in the original query. so ...

options.filter = "COMPANY = 'T-VIN' and STOREID = 'T-VIN-0001' and INV_CATEG = 'DVD' and INV_U_QTY >= 3"

Your SQL won't understand the .and. and probably just rejects the where clause completely.

Only other difference I see is that I had "" where you have null_value().