Class Function, or not Class Function?

[Dayna]

Hey All,

I think I need your advice/assistance, I would like to be able to achieve the following:

I have an expression that shows me how many items are due, this is done by today()-Due Date, which wrapped in num() gives me the amount of days its due. Anything that isn't currently due is 0.

What I would like, is selectors that I can use in a list box and as a pivot table with the following:

0, 0 -30, 30-60, 60-90, 90-year, year+.

I was originally of thinking the Class function, but I'm struggling as unsure how to achieve '0' and the 90-year and year+...

Do you have any ideas? As always, help is most appreciated!!!

Kind Regards,
Dayna

[jonathandienst]

Dayna

I have used an inline table and INTERVAL match for the same effect. See the example script below:

First define the bands. I use duals, but this is not strictly necessary for the interval match:
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Bands for interval matching to the last distance measure
//----------------------------------------------------------------------------
DISTANCEBANDS:
LOAD Dual(BandName, DistMin) AS DistanceBand,
 DistMin,
 DistMax
INLINE
[
 BandName, DistMin, DistMax
 'No move', 0, 0
 '<1000km', 1, 1000
 '1001-5000km', 1000, 5000
 '5001-10000km', 5000, 10000
 '10000-20000km', 10000, 20000
 '>20000km', 20000,
];
Then interval match to the LastDistance field in the main data set:
LEFT JOIN(LASTREAD)
INTERVALMATCH (LastDistance) LOAD DistMin, DistMax RESIDENT DISTANCEBANDS;

Hope this helps

Jonathan

[#3]

Hello,

I once read in this forum, that everything below xx intervals can be easily achieved by an nested IF-statement during load time without performance issues. if (val<0, '<0', if( val<10, '0-10', if(val<20,'10-20','>20')))

xx was an actually big number, personally I would go max. until 10.

hth,
Thilo