RE: [DataVision-users] complex ruby formulae

[Frank Z. <fza...@ho...>]

Oh yeah, about the formula (I knew there was a point to my replying!)...

I'll give it a try tomorrow at work and see if I can spot a problem (unless 
someone else jumps in first)... Nothing in it strikes me as wrong, but the 
one question I have that I alluded to in my original reply is simply whether 
it's even possible to do things other than simple one-line expressions in DV 
(it would go for any scripting language I think).  I'm just not sure.  I'm 
guessing it's perfectly OK to do so, but I'm not sure.

Frank W. Zammetti
Founder and Chief Software Architect
Omnytex Technologies
www.omnytex.com





>From: "Paul Taylor" <pa...@nm...>
>Reply-To: dat...@li...
>To: <dat...@li...>
>Subject: RE: [DataVision-users] complex ruby formulae
>Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:57:21 +1000
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>Obviously my spell-checker doesn't like the word "ruby", so it replaced it
>with "rugby", but for the record, American football is a bastardization of
>rugby, not the other way around - that's just payback.
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>With respect to formulae, I'm trying to do something that is more complex
>than the simple if statement in the sample reports. I've looked through the
>rugby docs but to no avail.
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>I have a field called CURRDUDATE - it is a date stored as a long. eg
>20040828
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>The 1st 3 lines give me 3 variables - year, month & day.
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>The 4th line is supposed to construct a string.
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>y ={job.CURRDUDATE}/10000
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>m ={job.CURRDUDATE}/100 - y*100
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>d ={job.CURRDUDATE} - y*10000 - m*100
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>dt = y.to_s +"-"+ m.to_s +"-"+ d.to_s
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>My inexperience with ruby syntax is getting in the way.
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>regards,
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>Paul Taylor
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: dat...@li...
>[mailto:dat...@li...] On Behalf Of
>Mar...@dp...
>Sent: Friday, 17 September 2004 12:30 PM
>To: dat...@li...
>Subject: RE: [DataVision-users] complex rugby formulae
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>Frank,
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>I'm sure as a supporter of cooperative development that your organisation
>would be using Agile methodolgies.
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>So I'd reckon that you'd be very good in a scrum.
>
>Mark Parssey
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>"Frank Zammetti" <fza...@ho...>
>Sent by: dat...@li...
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>17/09/2004 10:02 AM
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>Please respond to
>dat...@li...
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>To
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>dat...@li...
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>cc
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>Subject
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>RE: [DataVision-users] complex rugby formulae
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>Rugby?  I didn't realize DataVision suported European bastardizations of
>Football! (Of course, I hate Football, so lest anyone from across the pond
>get mad at me and say we Americans copied you, I DON'T CARE EITHER WAY!)
>Sorry, just busting chops.
>
>Can you post the formula you are trying?  We may be able to help you figure
>out what's going on.  I don't actually know how complex formulas can be...
>Jim, can they be more than a single expression?
>
>I too come from a Crystal background, and I have fought with Ruby in DV 
>many
>
>times, but that's part of the reason I went and implemented BSF, so now I
>can use Javascript! :) (Coming soon in a future version... well, coming
>anyway, I don't know about soon)
>
>Frank W. Zammetti
>Founder and Chief Software Architect
>Omnytex Technologies
>www.omnytex.com
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> >From: "Paul Taylor" <pa...@nm...>
> >Reply-To: dat...@li...
> >To: <dat...@li...>
> >Subject: [DataVision-users] complex rugby formulae
> >Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:40:02 +1000
> >
> >Does anyone have any examples of formulae for use in Datavision?
> >
> >I am familiar with the formulae functions in Crystal Reports, but I'm
> >struggling to get started in DV.
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> >I'm trying to create a number of variables within a single formula and 
>then
> >use these to produce a derived result - I keep getting errors.
> >
> >I'm beginning to get the impression that I need a separate formula for 
>each
> >variable - is this the case?
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> >
> >Paul Taylor
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