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    Too few parameters error message

    Would anyone like to take a look at my screen shots for a grid, it's query, and tell me why it gives me the error message about too few parameters (see screenshot) when I attempt to sort on the calculated fields, AND when I attempt to put a Sum Total field for those calculated fields on the grid?
    Carol King
    Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
    http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com
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    Re: Too few parameters error message

    Carol,

    Looks like a parens problem. The first round has too many parens after it.
    It is round(((( and I think it should be round((
    Pat
    Pat Bremkamp
    MindKicks Consulting

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      Re: Too few parameters error message

      Pat - Thank you for your response, but I don't think that's the problem. Alpha is actually supply some of those parenthesis and if you'll look at the closing ones, the beginning ones are needed. See screenshot of the SQL view of the query in MS Access. I copied and pasted that into the SQL Builder in Alpha and it's builder automatically supplied the additional parenthesis.

      Also, see the the Preview of the query in the SQL builder (attached). Those expressions are evaluating correctly and I don't think they would if the parenthesis were wrong.

      I am able to run the grid and those expressions are calculating properly on each row. I get the error when I try to sort one of those calculated columns, OR when I add a Total field to the bottom of those columns.
      Carol King
      Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
      http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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        Re: Too few parameters error message

        Originally posted by kingcarol View Post
        Would anyone like to take a look at my screen shots for a grid, it's query, and tell me why it gives me the error message about too few parameters (see screenshot) when I attempt to sort on the calculated fields, AND when I attempt to put a Sum Total field for those calculated fields on the grid?
        It is not possible to answer this question without being able to run a test case and see the bug on our own systems.

        In general terms, when you put a summary calculation on a grid, Alpha Five parses the SQL statement that the grid is based on and creates a new SQL statement that does the summary calculation. The summary calculation is done on the server, not by Alpha Five.
        It looks like there might be a bug in the way that A5 is computing the sql to calculate the summary values.

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          Re: Too few parameters error message

          Selwyn, I have sent you an email with the files attached so you can run a test case.
          Carol King
          Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
          http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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            Re: Too few parameters error message

            Test Results: You can't create a calculated field and then use it's name in another calculated field in the SQL query. If you look at my first screenshot of the query at the beginning of the thread, and then at the screenshot of the query attached here, you'll see that I had to expand the query to use formulas that only referred to the original non calculated fields in the table. This second query DOES work when I try to sort on those calculated fields in the grid, and as you can see by the screenshot of the grid, it DOES display the summary totals without an error. The first query was not able to sort or display totals for those calculated fields.
            Carol King
            Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
            http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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