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    Help with automating saved queries...

    Greetings,

    Been a while since I have been here, and a while since I have been coding which is my current issue I am sure.

    I have a bunch of saved queries for a database that I need to run every month. I have been doing them manually as I have been developing them as each one requires a bit of tweaking before it is complete. But they are stable and there are about 45 of them to run each month so I started the task of automating the process. Starting with Action Scripting I found the QUERY.RUN() function and a5_get_operations("query","database_name") function and that got me started and quickly into trouble.

    I have been unable to determine how to grab the resulting browse from the QUERY.RUN() to total up an amount field which would be written into a table rather than retyping the info for each query. Can someone point in the direction for how to capture the browse result so I can compute the items returned. There are times that "no records" are returned and the max is around 12 to 15 items, with the normal being between one and 5 or 6 items as a rule.

    Regards,
    Keith
    Keith Weatherhead
    Discus Data, Ltd
    [email protected]

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    Re: Help with automating saved queries...

    Would need more details, and a sample to work with, in order to provide specific help.

    In meantime, have you considered using the tablesum() function to compute the total of the amount field in each table. This function will accommodate a filter, so the sum is computed over the desired range of records. If your browses are based on single tables this might permit you to write an action script to automate the sequence without using saved queries.

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      #3
      Re: Help with automating saved queries...

      Tom,

      The table is a Customer A/R Table but unfortunately the Customer File does not have any kind of Parent/Child or Related Entity fields and these Saved Queries are just that. In a simple case think (WalMart/Sam's Club) and in a more complex situations think (Us Army or Air Force Installations) or (General Electric entities that may include things like Turbines, Appliances, Medical, Financial, etc). There is no way without developing a huge application to manage these to avoid Saved Querries.

      Manually running them produces the browses to be totaled for the entities exposure to the company. I do not care about the browses per se, just need to total up the items returned from the query. Tablesum() does not provide enough functionality to do this.

      Keith
      Keith Weatherhead
      Discus Data, Ltd
      [email protected]

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        #4
        Re: Help with automating saved queries...

        Keith,

        Have you considered using a tablesum() calc with a mapped table?

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          #5
          Re: Help with automating saved queries...

          Tom,

          No, what do you mean by a "mapped" table?

          Is there no way to take a Saved Query (operation) and process its result?

          Keith
          Keith Weatherhead
          Discus Data, Ltd
          [email protected]

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            #6
            Re: Help with automating saved queries...

            Have you looked at a summary operation?

            Or looked at what it would take to have a relationship table?

            With what you've presented, it's difficult to understand the full scope of what you need to do.
            Al Buchholz
            Bookwood Systems, LTD
            Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST

            Occam's Razor - KISS
            Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
            Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.
            When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
            "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
            Albert Einstein

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              #7
              Re: Help with automating saved queries...

              Hi Al,

              I have a 3 million record table with a company month-end A/R summary.
              I have a series of Saved Query Operations, for specific company groups, query all of the related entities for that customer group.
              The query produces a browse with the matching records, which I want to total some data and write that to another table.
              Many of the saved queries have 3 or 4 panels of criteria (includes & excludes) in order to get the subset I want.
              I want to be able to sum up the open balance of the returned records and then go to the next query (about 45 in total for this master table)
              I ran these by hand for a few months to be sure that they capture all that I desire without any out-liers and am now comfortable with the results.

              I used Action Scripting to put the first Saved Operation Query into operation, QUERY.RUN(), then used: a5_get_operations("query", "summ_by_customer") to get a
              list of all the queries. In this case all of these special queries start with a "z", so I only run those queries. Each one produces a Browse Result that I am trying to
              figure out how to manipulate programmatically. Tablesum() (or something similar) would be great to process those browse results if I could figure out how to
              address them.... ???? Make anymore sense now ?

              Keith

              Originally posted by Al Buchholz View Post
              Have you looked at a summary operation?

              Or looked at what it would take to have a relationship table?

              With what you've presented, it's difficult to understand the full scope of what you need to do.
              Keith Weatherhead
              Discus Data, Ltd
              [email protected]

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                #8
                Re: Help with automating saved queries...

                Some additional sense.

                Still sounds like summary operation(s) is/are needed.

                You may want to contact IADN to get some detailed individual help.
                Al Buchholz
                Bookwood Systems, LTD
                Weekly QReportBuilder Webinars Thursday 1 pm CST

                Occam's Razor - KISS
                Normalize till it hurts - De-normalize till it works.
                Advice offered and questions asked in the spirit of learning how to fish is better than someone giving you a fish.
                When we triage a problem it is much easier to read sample systems than to read a mind.
                "Make it as simple as possible, but not simpler."
                Albert Einstein

                http://www.iadn.com/images/media/iadn_member.png

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                  #9
                  Re: Help with automating saved queries...

                  Tablesum() (or something similar) would be great to process those browse results if I could figure out how to
                  address them.... ????
                  Tablesum() with the filter expression the same as used in your saved queries would yield sums on the same set of records displayed in the browse after such queries are run.
                  There can be only one.

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                    #10
                    Re: Help with automating saved queries...

                    Originally posted by Stan Mathews View Post
                    Tablesum() with the filter expression the same as used in your saved queries would yield sums on the same set of records displayed in the browse after such queries are run.
                    Stan, how do you specify the name of the Saved Operation Query in the TABLESUM() command ?

                    Keith
                    Keith Weatherhead
                    Discus Data, Ltd
                    [email protected]

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                      #11
                      Re: Help with automating saved queries...

                      Didn't say you could. Right click on saved query name in control panel. View xbasic. Copy the filter. Use that in a tablesum().
                      There can be only one.

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                        #12
                        Re: Help with automating saved queries...

                        Originally posted by Stan Mathews View Post
                        Didn't say you could. Right click on saved query name in control panel. View xbasic. Copy the filter. Use that in a tablesum().
                        OK, one of my hopes was it would be self-maintenancing by simply adding new Saved Operations (Queries) going forward, oh well !!!
                        With all the functionality of A5, just cannot believe you cannot capture the Browse Result and process it.....

                        Thanx,
                        Keith
                        Keith Weatherhead
                        Discus Data, Ltd
                        [email protected]

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                          #13
                          Re: Help with automating saved queries...

                          In Alpha, dbf functionality, browses and forms are not results to be captured. They are simply means to view records.
                          There can be only one.

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                            #14
                            Re: Help with automating saved queries...

                            Stan,

                            Do you know if you can programmatically get the code for the filter from a Saved Operation?
                            Could I dynamically generate the filters at run time, in other words?
                            I need to maintain the manual method of getting the results, too...

                            Keith
                            Keith Weatherhead
                            Discus Data, Ltd
                            [email protected]

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                              #15
                              Re: Help with automating saved queries...

                              Never tried that and don't have Alpha available at the moment to check.
                              There can be only one.

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