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Where to define SQL filter for Layout Reports

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    Where to define SQL filter for Layout Reports

    I have created a layout report using the report builder. It works fine (after many hours of screwing around!).
    In order to do this I had to build a SQL select statement which I made fairly generic, only specifying arguments for a date range (which will apply to all reports)
    I have created a dialog to get the date range arguments and additional parameters for the report which also works fine.
    I want the user to be able to specify one Company or all, and one Boat or all (this is a reservation system for a Boat Tour). I can do this ok in my dialog.
    My problem is that I need to modify the report select statement to take into account these extra parameters and I'm at a loss as to where to do this.
    I guess I would like to modify the where clause based on the dialog input.
    Can anyone point me in the right direction?
    Garry

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    Re: Where to define SQL filter for Layout Reports

    Right click on the report in your control panel and choose "edit data source definition".

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      Re: Where to define SQL filter for Layout Reports

      Yes, I realize that I can do that but how do I generalize the statement:
      i.e. in one case the customer chooses a particular client and the resulting statement would be:
      select * from (some file) where Cust_ID = :CustID
      but if he chooses ALL clients it would just be:
      select * from (some file)

      So far, the options seem to be to duplicate the reports with separate select statements (horrible in terms of maintenance)
      or
      I noticed another thread where the select statement looked like select * from (somefile) where somefunction().
      The latter looks interesting but might be slow.
      It seems this sort of thing must be a very common requirement and I'm just missing something obvious.

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        Re: Where to define SQL filter for Layout Reports

        Sorry, I misunderstood. Can't you do it in the report action in the button? There are quite a few filtering options there. I believe you could also define your argument as the entire WHERE clause. For example, the value of the argument :CustID could be "WHERE Cust_ID = 'yourvalue'" but I'm not positive that it works as I haven't tried it myself. You could also make a calculated field on your dialog that would set the filter.

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          Re: Where to define SQL filter for Layout Reports

          Thank you! I had put Submit/Reset buttons on the form and I couldn't see anything related to "Can't you do it in the report action in the button?"
          Your comment made me think of just putting a regular button on the form, which I did and Add an Action allowed me to add a Report complete with a Select statement.
          I then realized that all I had to do was select Action javascript on the original button and ignore the warning about 'existing code cannot be converted...'.
          All this is just a round about way of saying I was stupid and thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

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