External Data Providers

Question

Hi!
I have a document where I need to compare figures with two external Data Providers.
One external provider gives me Target figures for a Sales Period in Total per Store. The other gives me % per week, in the Sales Period, for how much we want to have sold of the target.
The user get prompts for start week and end week and results for Sales Quantity which is from the DataWarehous. What I want to achive is a calculation where I get the % from my external provider where I have a match for week in my external sheet and the userRespons in end week.
This is an example of my external % sheet
week and %
0840 =  0,40
0841 =  0,80
0842 = 1,00
For exampel: The user wants to see Sales accumulated for week 40 to 41 and the End week promt is therefore 0841. Then I want match end week prompt with my week prompt and get the result 0,8.  Then I want to take 0,8 times my target figures.
The problem I have is that either it takes 0,40,81 and then times target or it only takes 0,4 times target.
If I have a variable that looks like:
=<%> Where (<Week (Imported)>= "0841"
it works but I need week to be dynamic similar to:
=<%> Where (<Week (Imported)>= [prompt for end week]
Regards, Marianne

Answer 1

Marianne,
Create an extra variable (check_variable) where you check the following:
=if <Week (imported)> = UserResponse(DataProvider, your prompt for end week) then 1 else 0
Then change your variable to
=<%> Where (check_variable = 1)
This should make it all dynamic.
Cheers,
Harry