Question of joinsI'm not sure I'm following you. I think you have a file that contains an "array" of values, and you want to do a join-like operation with your DB for reporting purposes.
If this is the case, you can probably use <@FILTER> to get only the relevant records from each array. If you post more detail, I will try to give you the filter expression. I think you might be happier in the long run if you put your list of values in the DB, instead of using the file to store these values - that way you can use a simple join, and it's likely to be much faster than any file-based operations. -----Original Message----- From: Wolf, Gene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 11:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Witango-Talk: Question of joins This is probably simplistic and perhaps more of a SQL question than a Witango question but I'm going to ask anyway. *laughs* I have an application set up where a user selects a from location and a to location, from a dropdown list, of something they are shipping. The dropdown list is populated from a file and the resulting from and to location codes are recorded to a database record in separate fields named shipfrom and shipto. No problem so far. Everything works perfectly. Now, in reporting I want to show the description of the ship from and ship to locations. I can read the records into an array and look up each location from the database and then display the array when done but that seems inefficient, especially when I have to use a for loop to process the array. Is there some way to join two different fields on the same lookup table, in a Witango search action, in order to pull different text values for each of the fields? Gene Wolf Supervisor, Business Systems DRS Sensors & Targeting Systems-Optronics 2330 Commerce Park Drive NE Palm Bay, Florida 32905 Phone: 321-309-0685 321-309-0202 (fax) Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/ This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. "This (document/presentation) may contain technical data as defined in the International Traffic In Arms Regulations (ITAR) 22 CFR 120.10. Export of this material is restricted by the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.) and may not be exported to foreign persons without prior written approval from the U.S. Department of State." ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
