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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Yeah, you are on the right track.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sort1 would replace the default top level sort on your report. So, it’s something you might want to make sure you understand from a high level.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It’s not overly intuitive to program if you have not been exposed to it before, but I bet 95% of my reports used them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>HOWEVER I started at the –v table process before I moved on to actually deciding what to do in @wbrk1 and what the top level sort on the report output looked like.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I thought Nancy Palmquist had something on vss3.com, but maybe someone else can send you a link to a tutorial on how to use sort/selection tables in filePro.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> scooter6@gmail.com [mailto:scooter6@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 12, 2013 12:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> Walter D Vaughan Jr<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: counting real records<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Can you expand on that a bit?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>So this should be used if my command is /u/appl/fp/rreport customer -f Placesum -u -a -v <sort processing that you indicated> ?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>i.e. I make a -v table called sortit and use the sort1 command in there?<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Walter D Vaughan Jr <<a href="mailto:wvaughan@steelerubber.com" target="_blank">wvaughan@steelerubber.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: filepro-list-bounces+wvaughan=<a href="mailto:steelerubber.com@lists.celestial.com">steelerubber.com@lists.celestial.com</a><br>> [mailto:<a href="mailto:filepro-list-">filepro-list-</a><br>> bounces+wvaughan=<a href="mailto:steelerubber.com@lists.celestial.com">steelerubber.com@lists.celestial.com</a>] On Behalf Of<br>> <a href="mailto:scooter6@gmail.com">scooter6@gmail.com</a><br>> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 11:22 AM<br>> To: <a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com">filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a><br>> Subject: counting real records<br>><br>> Should seem simple but let me explain...<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>[Walter D Vaughan Jr]<br><snip><br>Why are you not using a sort/selection table?<br><a href="http://www.fptech.com/Products/Docs/fpmanhtm/how_do_i/advanced_concepts/sort_select_processing.htm" target="_blank">http://www.fptech.com/Products/Docs/fpmanhtm/how_do_i/advanced_concepts/sort_select_processing.htm</a><br><a href="http://www.fptech.com/Products/Docs/fpmanhtm/references/commands/sort.htm" target="_blank">http://www.fptech.com/Products/Docs/fpmanhtm/references/commands/sort.htm</a><br><br>sort1=cn&"-"&rn<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Filepro-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com">Filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a><br>Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Subscription Changes<br><a href="http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list" target="_blank">http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>