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Title: Vendor Functions
Post by: vsudaya on 05 Dec 2005 08:05:00 AM
Hi all,

How can make use of vendor functions while creating variables, whenever i use any vendor based functions , while creating variable its report studio giving validation error?

any idea?

thanks in advance
vsud
Title: Re: Vendor Functions
Post by: MFGF on 05 Dec 2005 09:43:22 AM
Hi vsud,

When you set up a variable, this is being defined at the Query level of the report, rather than at the tabular level, so vendor-specific functions are not available for you to use.  One option would be to add some data items to your tabular level which call the vendor functions as part of their definition, pass these up to your query, and use these in defining your variable.

Hope that helps,

MF.