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    Mass Invoicing

    Hi All

    I've got a database whereby users can enter parts orders from customers with open payment accounts. We then invoice each customer on a monthly basis for their orders. I want to create a new invoice for each customer and group all of their non-invoiced orders by assigning the unique invoice id (cinv_id) to the corresponding orders.

    In order to accomplish this, I'm looking for a way to complete the following 3 actions.

    1: Set today's date as the field value of the bill_date field in the data_order table for all orders providing the field is already blank.

    2: Create a new record in the data_customer_invoice table for each unique cust_id in the data_order table with the bill_date value of today, and copying the value from each field in the below list from the data_customer table into the new corresponding records in the data_customer_invoice table.

    3: Update each cinv_id field in the data_order table with a bill_date of today, with the corresponding cinv_id from the data_customer_invoice.


    data_customer data_customer_invoice
    Cust_Id Cust_Id
    Cust_Fnme Cust_Nme
    Cust_Lnme
    Cust_Add1 Cust_Add1
    Cust_Add2 Cust_Add2
    Cust_Unit Cust_Unit
    Cust_City Cust_City
    Cust_State Cust_State
    Cust_Zip Cust_Zip
    Cust_Cntry Cust_Cntry
    Tel_1 C_Off_Tel
    Email C_Email

    Attached is a sample section of the database tables.
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    #2
    Re: Mass Invoicing

    Sounds like:

    1. Update operation
    2. Append operation
    3. Update operation

    Unless you want to write your own xbasic code...
    Al Buchholz
    Bookwood Systems, LTD
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    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."
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      #3
      Re: Mass Invoicing

      Hi Al

      Thanks for the advise!

      I've decided to ignore the 3rd action and simply link the the two tables by the invoice created date (crdat_icnv) and customer id (cust_id) with the bill date (bill_date) and customer id (cust_id) in the order table.

      Everything seems to be working except for my invoice total calculation (totd_cinv). The expression i built in the field rules only seems to work with one filter but not both. Any idea what i am doing wrong?

      Code:
      tablesum("data_order.dbf", "bill_date = '"+crdat_cinv+"'" .AND."cust_id ='"+cust_id+"'", "total_cost")

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        #4
        Re: Mass Invoicing

        Sorry

        Not tracking what you are doing with the info provided...
        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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          #5
          Re: Mass Invoicing

          What data type is crdat_cinv in


          Code:
          tablesum("data_order.dbf", "bill_date = '"+crdat_cinv+"'" .AND."cust_id ='"+cust_id+"'", "total_cost")

          Code:
          crdat_cinv = date()
          cust_id = "AB001"
          
          
          ? "bill_date = '"+crdat_cinv+"'" .AND."cust_id ='"+cust_id+"'"
          ERROR: Argument is incorrect data type 
          'trying to .and. 
          '   "bill_date = '"+crdat_cinv+"'"
          '   with
          "   'cust_id ='"+cust_id+"'"
          
          
          ? "bill_date = '"+crdat_cinv+"' .AND.cust_id ='"+cust_id+"'"
          = "bill_date = '10/25/2012' .AND.cust_id ='AB001'"
          
          
          ? "bill_date = {"+dtoc(crdat_cinv)+"} .AND.cust_id ='"+cust_id+"'" probably want this one, note curly brackets around date value
          = "bill_date = {10/25/2012} .AND.cust_id ='AB001'"
          Last edited by Stan Mathews; 10-25-2012, 01:09 PM.
          There can be only one.

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            #6
            Re: Mass Invoicing

            It is a Character data type.

            Thanks for the code!

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