Purchase Order: Ship to location problem - Please help

Question

Hi All,
I have come across a problem when publishing Purchase orders where the PO header ship to address differs to a seperate PO line ship to address.
I have written the following Choose statement to try and show separate ship to locations for each separate PO line.
<?for-each:G_LINES?>
<?choose:?>
<?when:number(//G_HEADERS/POH_SHIP_TO_LOCATION) = number(//G_SHIPMENTS/PLL_SHIP_TO_LOCATION)?>
<?POL_LINE_NUM?> <?C_ITEM_DESC?> <?LINE_NOTE?>
<?end when?>
<?otherwise:?>
<?POL_LINE_NUM?> <?C_ITEM_DESC?> <?LINE_NOTE?>
SHIP TO: <?ADDRESS_LINE1?>
<?ADDRESS_LINE2?>
<?end otherwise?>
<?end choose?>
<?end for each?>
my logic is that if the header ship to ID is = to the line items ship to ID then just show some basic PO line info.
Otherwise if the numbers differ then show the individual lines info along with the additional Ship to address which is in ADDRESS_LINE1, ADDRESS_LINE2 etc.
And repeat this condition for how ever many PO lines exist for the overall purchase order.
However, when i publish this the "otherwise" condition never gets checked if the first PO line is TRUE and vis versa if the first PO line is false.
So if the first PO line is true then every single PO line will just show the When condition even if the separate PO lines ship to ID differs to the POH_ship to id.
any idea why the otherwise condition wont fall true for the 2nd 3rd or however many PO lines there are if the first PO line is flagged as true?
I hope this makes sense. Many thanks for any help.
Greg

Answer 1

I have a PO that we are using that has basically the same requirements. If the line address is different (any of them) then the header prints a message to "see below" and the address line contains the shipping information.
The way I have done this was to create a variable and compare to see of any of the lines were different when the header was read. Then check the var when the line is processed. The template is quite long as we have many fields that dynamically display/or not so I will post a truncated version below and also please note that on this form we simply gave up using the Oracle's "fantastic" MSWORD plug-in and had to use pure a XML-FO template. However, I think the portions/logic you need should be transferable into MSWORD if you are careful.
If snipit of code is not enough let me know and I can try to paste the entire thing after my marathon meeting today <ugh!>.
--------start code-----------
<xsl:for-each select=".//G_HEADERS">
<xsl:variable name="SAME_SHIP_TO_ADDRESS_USED" select="count(.//PLL_SHIP_ADDRESS_LINE1[. != current()/POH_SHIP_ADDRESS_LINE1]) = 0" />
...(lots of header stuff goes here)
<xsl:for-each select=".//G_SHIPMENTS">
<xsl:if test="$SAME_SHIP_TO_ADDRESS_USED" xdofo:ctx="3">
<fo:block xdofo:xliff-note="if:shipline, eif, if:shipline, ifCountShip>1, PLL_SHIP_ADDRESS_LINE1" padding-bottom="0.0pt" text-align="start" orphans="2" widows="2" padding-top="0.0pt" end-indent="0.0pt" linefeed-treatment="preserve" start-indent="0.0pt" height="0pt">
<fo:inline height="7.0pt" font-family="Arial" white-space-collapse="false" font-size="7.0pt">Address at top of page</fo:inline>
</fo:block>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="not($SAME_SHIP_TO_ADDRESS_USED)" xdofo:ctx="3">
<fo:block padding-bottom="0.0pt" text-align="start" orphans="2" widows="2" padding-top="0.0pt" end-indent="0.0pt" linefeed-treatment="preserve" start-indent="0.0pt" height="0pt">
<fo:inline height="7.0pt" font-family="Arial" white-space-collapse="false" font-size="7.0pt">
<xsl:value-of select="PLL_SHIP_ADDRESS_LINE1" xdofo:field-name="PLL_SHIP_ADDRESS_LINE1"/>
</fo:inline>
</fo:block>
...(lots more address fields here!)
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
------------end code------------
Good luck,
Scott