shatara@memit.dec.com (Chris Shatara) (10/23/89)
I run into what I believe is a bug in Appleworks V3.0 The problem is that
it occurs in something so basic with the report generator in the data base
that it casues me to question whether or not its a bug. Anyway here it
is:
I created a simple data dase and am trying to print a report with a
calculated column. I started out complicated and worked back to simple.
What I wanted was a column whose value was:
(B*D)-(C*D) SIMPLE RIGHT?
well all I got for the column when I printed it out was #######. the
column was plenty wide. Now lets get simple!
B*D WORKS GREAT!
(B*D) PROBLEM! GET #######
I even tried the example in the manual on page 9-16 (the only place they
talked about calculated catagories!) with the same results.
Is this a BUG or a feature :-)
/chris
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=============================================================================Lou@cup.portal.com (William Joseph Marriott) (10/24/89)
The manual is misprinted. You can't use parenthesis or algebraic precedence when defining calculated categories in the data base. The calculated categori feature works as it did in earlier versions of AW.