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    #31
    Re: Creating Multiple Excel Worksheets from one export Script

    Hi Stan. Tried your last suggestion. The first client appears in the cvar box but nothing ever appears in the tbl.client box. I know there are more clients that fit the query filter but it is not getting to them. Just running a regular query using the same filter criteria, there should be 9 clients.

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      #32
      Re: Creating Multiple Excel Worksheets from one export Script

      Stan, I just noticed if I put "cvar" in one box and then "A_tbl" in the next box down, as it steps through, when it gets to "A_tbl = table.open("New_Invoicing")", an error pops up stating "New_Invoicing" can't be opened because it's already being used by another process. I assume it's where we already opened it earlier in the script.

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        #33
        Re: Creating Multiple Excel Worksheets from one export Script

        Not sure what happened but it's not doing that now. Now it runs through however with "A_tbl" entered in the box, no value appears as it runs through. For whatever reason, it's not opening another instance of the New_Invoicing table.

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          #34
          Re: Creating Multiple Excel Worksheets from one export Script

          Now it runs through however with "A_tbl" entered in the box
          Not a_tbl, just tbl.client.

          If cvar acquires a value it must come from =tbl.client.

          Can you attach a sample of the table?
          There can be only one.

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            #35
            Re: Creating Multiple Excel Worksheets from one export Script

            Haven't done that before..... how do I attach the table?

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              #36
              Re: Creating Multiple Excel Worksheets from one export Script

              Create a zip of the table in Alpha.
              Start a post here, scroll down till you see Go Advanced at the lower right.
              Screen changes, scroll down till you see Manage Attachments, ......................
              There can be only one.

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                #37
                Re: Creating Multiple Excel Worksheets from one export Script

                How do I attach the table? Just saw your answer.....

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                  #38
                  Re: Creating Multiple Excel Worksheets from one export Script

                  OK.... here is the table...... Will be gone until next Tuesday, but may be able to work from home this weekend. Thanks for everything.....
                  Attached Files

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                    #39
                    Re: Creating Multiple Excel Worksheets from one export Script

                    My bad.

                    1. We can't use batch_begin()..batch_end() because those don't allow the table to accessed by another pointer.
                    2. typo in the export portion of the script was querying the original table, not the second instance, thus the end of file was hit.

                    Code:
                    dim tbl as P
                    dim cvar as C
                    'open the New_Invoicing table to get client id numbers
                    tbl = table.open("New_Invoicing")
                    'put table in client order so we can skip over multiple instances and export only once per client
                    tbl.order("client")
                    'start at the first client id found
                    tbl.fetch_first()
                    WHILE .NOT. tbl.Fetch_EOF()
                    	'read theclient id of the current record and store that to the cvar variable
                    	cvar = alltrim(tbl.client) 'added to remove spaces in client id
                    	'open a second instance of the table for the exporting source
                    	a_tbl = table.open("New_Invoicing")
                    	'set options and query for the client id obtained above
                    	query.description = ""
                    	query.order = "CLIENT+DATE"
                    	query.filter = "CLIENT = "+quote(cvar)+" .AND. INVOICE_AMOUNT1-CHECK1-CHECK2-CHECK3-CHECK4>0"
                    	query.options = "I"
                    	[SIZE=4]a_tbl.[/SIZE]query_create() ' not tbl.query_create()
                    	'the a_tbl pointer now only sees the records queried
                    	export.type = 4
                    	export.names = .T.
                    	export.file = "c:\temp\("+cvar+").xls"
                    	export.options = ""
                    	export.field_sep = ""
                    	export.record_sep = ""
                    	export.fields = 8
                    	export.field1 = "client"
                    	export.field2 = "date"
                    	export.field3 = "invoice_number1"
                    	export.field4 = "invoice_amount1"
                    	export.field5 = "date6"
                    	export.field6 = "invoice_number2"
                    	export.field7 = "invoice_amount2"
                    	export.field8 = "check5"
                    	a_tbl.export()
                    	'we've exported the records so now close the exporting source instance
                        a_tbl.close()
                        'in the original instance of the table,skip over any more records with the same client id 
                    	while tbl.client = cvar .and. .not. tbl.fetch_eof()
                    	tbl.fetch_Next()
                    	end while
                    	'we're now at the next unique client id, when we get back to the top of this while loop
                    	'the cvar = tbl.client will capture the client id and use that for the next export
                    	'etcetera
                    END WHILE
                    tbl.close()
                    Last edited by Stan Mathews; 01-30-2015, 11:22 AM.
                    There can be only one.

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                      #40
                      Re: Creating Multiple Excel Worksheets from one export Script

                      Thanks Stan. I had no idea that the 2 "batches" would lock the table so to speak. Thank you for all your hard work on this. I was definitely at a loss.

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                        #41
                        Re: Creating Multiple Excel Worksheets from one export Script

                        All Change and Enter operations in the specified table pointer (<TBL>) that occur between the <TBL>.BATCH_BEGIN()and its corresponding <TBL>.BATCH_END(), are optimized.

                        Alpha Five optimizes data entry operations by either opening the table exclusively or by preventing write access to the file by other users.
                        So it probably wouldn't have helped anyway. An export doesn't involve changes or enters.
                        There can be only one.

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                          #42
                          Re: Creating Multiple Excel Worksheets from one export Script

                          Stan,

                          I would never accuse you of Sniping. I would never claim that my code was the cleanest, or even very good. I just know that it works for us.

                          Tom

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                            #43
                            Re: Creating Multiple Excel Worksheets from one export Script

                            I just know that it works for us.
                            And that's what it's all about. Wanted to make sure you knew none of my comments/additions were critical.
                            There can be only one.

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                              #44
                              Re: Creating Multiple Excel Worksheets from one export Script

                              Stan. I just got back into the office today. Tried running the script and it worked flawlessly. Thank you so much for the insight, help and sharing your knowledge. This Saturday I will be coming into the office to upgrade to v11. I will be opening all scripts, forms and operations in design or edit mode and then saving them. Wish me luck....lol. Thanks again!
                              Scott

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                                #45
                                Re: Creating Multiple Excel Worksheets from one export Script

                                Originally posted by draxx2755 View Post
                                Stan. I just got back into the office today. Tried running the script and it worked flawlessly. Thank you so much for the insight, help and sharing your knowledge. This Saturday I will be coming into the office to upgrade to v11. I will be opening all scripts, forms and operations in design or edit mode and then saving them. Wish me luck....lol. Thanks again!
                                Scott
                                Try it with a backup copy first...
                                Robin

                                Discernment is not needed in things that differ, but in those things that appear to be the same. - Miles Sanford

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