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Title: Case Dataitem <> Dataitem
Post by: antexity on 22 Apr 2013 11:58:31 AM
Hi,

Not sure what I am missing.  the bellow formula is erroring out:

Error:

QE-DEF-0261 QFWP - Parsing text: CASE WHEN ([Tax Area PO HDR (PHTXA1)]<>[Tx Area VDR (A6TXA2)]) THEN ('Tax Area on PO doesn't match Vendor') ELSE ('GOOD') ENDQE-DEF-0260 Parsing error before or near position: 94 of: "CASE WHEN ([Tax Area PO HDR (PHTXA1)]<>[Tx Area VDR (A6TXA2)]) THEN ('Tax Area on PO doesn't"

Formula:


CASE
WHEN ([Tax Area PO HDR (PHTXA1)]<>[Tx Area VDR (A6TXA2)])

THEN ('Tax Area on PO doesn't match Vendor')

ELSE ('GOOD')

END

Any ideas?

Thanks so much
Title: Re: Case Dataitem <> Dataitem
Post by: RKMI on 22 Apr 2013 12:06:36 PM
Hi,

You have a single quote in doesn't which is throwing it off... change it to,

CASE
WHEN ([Tax Area PO HDR (PHTXA1)]<>[Tx Area VDR (A6TXA2)])

THEN ('Tax Area on PO does not match Vendor')

ELSE ('GOOD')

END

See if this works,


Thanks,
RK
Title: Re: Case Dataitem <> Dataitem
Post by: antexity on 22 Apr 2013 01:08:29 PM
lol,  That is it.  Completely missed the " ' "

Thanks Bud,
Jonathan
Title: Re: Case Dataitem <> Dataitem
Post by: RKMI on 22 Apr 2013 01:30:07 PM
Yeah, its a common parsing text issue.  ;)

Thanks,
RK