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    Help needed creating query filter

    I need help in creating a query.filter for a report using xdialog combo box and multi-select list.

    I can get the report to run with just the multi-select list but when I add the combo box I get different results. For instance if I select a value in the combo box and one value from the multi-select it works. But if I select a value from the combo box and many from the multi-select I get the report filtered just on the values of the multi select and the value from the combo box ist ignored.

    Any help or examples would be appreciated.

    #2
    Re: Help needed creating query filter

    Originally posted by sicomputerguy View Post
    But if I select a value from the combo box and many from the multi-select I get the report filtered just on the values of the multi select and the value from the combo box ist ignored.
    Maybe and maybe not. What you are probably getting with one selection from each is

    this .and. that

    The multi select is likely designed to accomodate multiple logical or possibilities? It likely adds conditions something like

    this .and. that .or. something .or. yet_another

    What you need is

    this .and. (that .or. something .or. yet_another)

    The first or example is effectively evaluated as

    (this .and. that) .or. something .or. yet_another

    which yields a logical true for the

    something .or. yet_another

    without regard to the this.

    Sorry if the explanation is vague but it just means that you need to enclose the selections from the multiselect in parentheses, even if there is only one.


    this .and. (that)
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      Re: Help needed creating query filter

      Hi Patrick,

      You'll probably need to at least post your filter and what the variable names represent to get any kind of meaningful help. Otherwise any suggestions you get will just be speculation. On the other hand, if you post your filter(s) someone will more than likely tell you exactly how to change it to make it work the way you want.

      Bob Arbuthnot

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        #4
        Re: Help needed creating query filter

        Ok, here is query part of the code:



        '-------------------------------------------------------------------------------


        DIM SHARED a_selected[100] as C
        DIM SHARED varC_result as C

        multi_list =vmember
        filter = alltrim(multi_list)
        filter = *for_each(x,"Member = " + quote(x), filter)
        filter = alltrim(filter)
        filter = stritran(filter,crlf()," .or. ")
        filter = filter +".and.Grade = Var->vGrade"

        '-------------------------------------------------------------------------------




        'Print a report, label, letter, form or browse layout. You can specify which records to print.

        query.filter = filter
        query.order = "recno()"
        'replace variables in the filter with their actual values
        query.filter = convert_expression(query.filter,"V")



        'Prompt user whether to print, or preview the layout. Set default to Print
        prompt_result = ui_get_print_or_preview("Print")
        If prompt_result = "Print" then

        :Report.Print("ChildrenGradeList",query.filter,query.order)

        Else if prompt_result = "Preview" then
        :Report.Preview("ChildrenGradeList",query.filter,query.order)
        End if
        '-----------------------------------------------------------------------

        Thanks

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          #5
          Re: Help needed creating query filter

          Try changing this

          filter = filter +".and.Grade = Var->vGrade"

          to

          filter = "("+filter +") .and. Grade = "+quote(Var->vGrade)

          assuming vGrade is a character variable.

          filter = "("+filter +") .and. Grade = "+Var->vGrade

          if vGrade is a numeric variable.
          There can be only one.

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            #6
            Re: Help needed creating query filter

            Stan,

            That worked!!!

            Is there somewhere in the help file where I can find an explaination for this?


            Thanks,
            Pat

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              #7
              Re: Help needed creating query filter

              Originally posted by sicomputerguy View Post
              Stan,

              That worked!!!

              Is there somewhere in the help file where I can find an explaination for this?


              Thanks,
              Pat
              You could look at the documentation of ".or." but you have to understand how multiple combinations are evaluated, as I tried to indicate in my first answer. There is also a section on Operator Precedence.

              Your query filter was constructing expressions like

              "Member = 'A' .and. Grade = 'B'" - for single choices from each group, which was fine.

              "Member = 'A' .or Member = 'C' .and. Grade = 'B'" - for multiple choices from the multiselect, which is ambiguous and will be interpreted per the precedence rules.

              What you wanted was

              "(Member = 'A' .or Member = 'C') .and. Grade = 'B'"
              There can be only one.

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                #8
                Re: Help needed creating query filter

                I had tried with the parentheses around the Grade but I didn't think to put it around the filter.

                Thanks again for your help,

                Pat

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