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Multivalue error using reportfilter function

Hi there,

Please be patient, I’m just getting started so don’t know how to word what I’m asking, also I’m using Web Intelligence V4.1 (there doesn’t seem to be a forum for that so hope here is OK).

Anyway I have used variables to calculate year to date sales in a report by creating a variable which equals “2017” for the current year, a flag which checks whether the data’s year equals this variable (giving a result of 1 or 0), and then a variable which multiplies the sales value by the flag.

This all works fine, but then I have an unput control which allows the user to select a (single) period. I’m using the reportfilter function, and applying a right() function to get the year number actually selected from the resulting list. This always comes out with 2017 when I export the data, but my summary table no longer works compared with hard coding the variable to equal 2017; instead I get a multivalue error.

Any ideas why?

Thanks,

Gary.


trigaz77 (BOB member since 2017-03-23)