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Width field in property inspector in read only [message #165485]

Thu, 30 March 2006 09:37

khask999
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Registered: March 2006
Location: Portsmouth, VA

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I'm using Oracle Reports Builder from Oracle Development Suite 10g.

I'm working with report that is already created and when I double-click on the Data Model icon the Report Editor - Data Model screen comes up. I then double-click on a box named Q_SUM that opens up the SQL Query Statment Box and my query is:

select sum(m10_value_comit),
m10_m23_piin_call_nr
from m10_document_nr
group by m10_m23_piin_call_nr

and another box is created called G_SUM that holds the fields from the query.

The field created from sum(m10_value_comit) has a width of 38 in the property inspector and it is read-only, is there any way that I can make the width property editable in the property inspector?

Thanks,
KSH

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Re: Width field in property inspector in read only [message #165523 is a reply to message #165485]

Thu, 30 March 2006 15:23

Littlefoot
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Location: Croatia, Europe

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I *think* that it means that the datatype of this field is NUMBER(38) - the maximum NUMBER length in Oracle. It, really, means nothing much to you - if nothing else, it makes you sure you won't get out of space.
To adjust it according to your needs, change FORMAT (for example, 999,990.00) used to display the selected value.

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Re: Width field in property inspector in read only [message #165679 is a reply to message #165485]

Fri, 31 March 2006 06:56

khask999
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Registered: March 2006
Location: Portsmouth, VA

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Thanks for your reply, I should have provided some more information.

The original format mask was NNNNNNNN0.00, I changed it to 999,990.00 and the field is still uneditable
( as is Column Type = Database - Scalar
and Datatype = Number ).
I tried about 10 different formats and still the same.

The m10_value_comit field is defined as Number(9,2) in the database. I think the sum function may be doing something but I'm not sure...

KSH

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Re: Width field in property inspector in read only [message #165773 is a reply to message #165679]

Sat, 01 April 2006 13:13

Littlefoot
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It appears I didn't understand your question; what do you mean by "read only" and "uneditable"? Would you like to stretch this field? If so, don't try to do it in Data Model, but in Paper Layout; click on the field and drag black squares to set the desired width. Flex and Confine should be set to ON.

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