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    Group Break by Day of Week

    I am trying to get a group break when a series of dates ends a week on saturday. I will not always have consecutive dates. I could have Monday, Friday one week skip a week and then have a Wednesday. Any ideas?
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    RE: Group Break by Day of Week

    Say a little more.

    Do you want to know the week of the month or the date of the following saturday that ends that week?

    Check out DOW function. Saturday=7, and DOW(YourDate)=(anotherNumber)
    So: (7-DOW(YourDate))+(YourDate)=7 (Saturday)

    You get the idea.

    Tom

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      RE: Group Break by Day of Week

      I want to do a group break if the next date falls in a different Saturday ending week. In detail section of the report, I can get the day of the week but I might have only Monday in the first week only Wednesday in the second week and only Friday in the third week. In the detail section, I can get the Julian date Subtract 2 and if it equals zero it equals saturday. In the detail section, I can also see if running variance of the Julian date is less than 8 to see if the week changes. Now how do I get the group to break on these facts.

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        #4
        RE: Group Break by Day of Week

        Dennis,

        Do a break on an expression like this

        datefield-DOW(datefield)

        This value will be the same for any and all dates within your week definition. Every time the values changes (and hence a new week value), it will cause a group break.

        Regards,

        Ira J. Perlow
        Computer Systems Design & Associates
        [email protected]
        Regards,

        Ira J. Perlow
        Computer Systems Design


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          #5
          RE: Group Break by Day of Week

          I don't know if this helps, but here's some function code I wrote for weekdays:

          upper(case(dow(YourDate)=1,"Sunday",dow(YourDate)=2,"Monday",dow(YourDate)=3,"Tuesday",dow(YourDate)=4,"Wednesday",dow(YourDate)=5,"Thursday",dow(YourDate)=6,"Friday",dow(YourDate)=7,"Saturday"))

          It wraps on screen.

          I use this function a great deal to break on weekdays.

          Robert

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            #6
            RE: Group Break by Day of Week

            Robert,

            Your equation will not work for the reason that if you have two weekdays that are the same in a row, e.g Monday Feb 19, 2001 and Monday February 26, 2001, there will not be a break.

            On another note, you can make your equation a whole lot simpler by just saying;

            upper(cdow(YourDate))

            Regards,

            Ira J. Perlow
            Computer Systems Design & Associates
            [email protected]
            Regards,

            Ira J. Perlow
            Computer Systems Design


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              #7
              RE: Group Break by Day of Week

              Thanks.

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                #8
                RE: Group Break by Day of Week

                Thanks for your help. Sometimes the answers are the most obvious. After I got done telling my self to "Keep it Simple Stupid" I used your formula and it worked perfect.
                Dennis Hall
                Catharpin, Virginia

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