Stuck on Variables

Hi,
I am making a database viewer using Dreamweaver, I can search
for the jobs in the database and have created a detail page so I
can view results from clickong on a link on the results page. My
problem comes now, I have a materials table, which show QUantity,
price per item and how many are used. There is also an additional
upcost of either 20%, 5% or 10%. WHen I search on a link, it is
using a recordID as a variable to display the results on the next
page and looking to a recordset of various SQL statements ending
with WHERE Job_No = 'colname'
I need to make a variable to collect the recordID of colname
and do the maths so it will result with SELECT Quantity *
Unit_Price plus the Additional upcost of a % to display the total.
But, I aint got a clue where to begin to make a variabl.
Please Help
Cheers
Paul

Thinking about this some more, I guess what I need is to somehow when I popup the dialog reset the view's bind variable to their initial state. Setting them to NULL or empty string doesn't do it. Then it's stuck on those values. I need to set it to whatever af:query expects.

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If you look carefully you will see that the 1st <target> is missing the ManagedTypeViewName, which when "shredded" by the Staging.GroomDwStagingData returns the following result set
Example
DECLARE @Config xml
DECLARE @GroomingCriteria NVARCHAR(MAX)
SET @GroomingCriteria = '<Config><Target><ModuleName>TransformActivityDim</ModuleName><WarehouseEntityName>ActivityDim</WarehouseEntityName><RequiredWarehouseEntityName>MTV_System$WorkItem$Activity</RequiredWarehouseEntityName><Watermark>2015-01-30T08:59:14.397</Watermark></Target><Target><ModuleName>TransformActivityDim</ModuleName><WarehouseEntityName>ActivityDim</WarehouseEntityName><RequiredWarehouseEntityName>MTV_System$WorkItem$Activity</RequiredWarehouseEntityName><ManagedTypeViewName>MTV_Microsoft$SystemCenter$Orchestrator$RunbookAutomationActivity</ManagedTypeViewName><Watermark>2015-01-30T08:59:14.397</Watermark></Target></Config>'
SET @Config = CONVERT(xml, @GroomingCriteria)
SELECT
ModuleName = p.value(N'child::ModuleName[1]', N'nvarchar(255)')
,WarehouseEntityName = p.value(N'child::WarehouseEntityName[1]', N'nvarchar(255)')
,RequiredWarehouseEntityName =p.value(N'child::RequiredWarehouseEntityName[1]', N'nvarchar(255)')
,ManagedTypeViewName = p.value(N'child::ManagedTypeViewName[1]', N'nvarchar(255)')
,Watermark = p.value(N'child::Watermark[1]', N'datetime')
FROM @Config.nodes(N'/Config/*') Elem(p)
/* RESULTS - NOTE THE NULL VALUE FOR ManagedTypeViewName
ModuleName WarehouseEntityName RequiredWarehouseEntityName ManagedTypeViewName Watermark
TransformActivityDim ActivityDim MTV_System$WorkItem$Activity NULL 2015-01-30 08:59:14.397
TransformActivityDim ActivityDim MTV_System$WorkItem$Activity MTV_Microsoft$SystemCenter$Orchestrator$RunbookAutomationActivity 2015-01-30 08:59:14.397
When the procedure enters the loop to build its dynamic SQL to delete relevant rows from the inbound schema tables it concatenates various options / variables into an executable string. However when adding a NULL value to a string the entire string becomes
NULL which then gets executed.
Whilst executing "EXEC(NULL)" would cause SQL to throw an error and be caught, executing the following doesnt
DECLARE @null_string VARCHAR(100)
SET @null_string = 'hello world ' + NULL
EXEC(@null_string)
SELECT @null_string
So as it hasnt caused an error the next part of the procedure is to move to the next record and this is why its caught in an infinite loop
DELETE @items WHERE ManagedTypeViewName = @View
The value for the variable @View is the ManagedTypeViewName which is NULL, as ANSI_NULLS are set to ON in the connection and not overridded in the procedure then the above statement wont delete anything as it needs to handle NULL values differently (IS NULL),
so we are now stuck in an infinite loop executing NULL for 2 hours until cancelled.
I amended the stored procedure and added the following line before the loop statement which had the desired effect and "fixed" the performance issue for the time being
DELETE @items WHERE ManagedTypeViewName IS NULL
I also noticed that the following line in dbo.p_GetDwStagingGroomingConfig is commented out (no idea why as no notes in the procedure)
--AND COALESCE(i.ManagedTypeViewName, j.RelationshipTypeViewName) IS NOT NULL
There are obviously other ways to mitigate the dynamic SQL string being NULL, there's more than one way to skin a cat and thats not why I am asking this question, but what I am concerned about is that is there a reason that the xml / @GroomingCriteria is incomplete
and / or that the procedures dont handle potential NULL values.
I cant find any documentation, KBs, forum posts of anyone else having this issue which somewhat surprises me.
Would be grateful of any help / advice that anyone can provide or if someone can look at their 2 stored procedures on a later version to see if it has already been fixed. Or is it simply that we have orphaned data, this is the bit that concerns most as I dont
really want to be deleting / updating data when I have no idea what the knock on effect might be
Many many thanks
Andy

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Hello Experts,
We are stuck with a problem where WeBI report is created on top of BeX query and we are not able to see the default value of Bex Customer exit variable in WeBI run. Here is the complete scenario:
1. One restricted KF is created in BeX, restricted with Customer exit variable on net Due date. And this variable is mandatory, ready for input, and Default value in calculated is user exit as current Week's Monday.
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So, need your inputs on the same, if default values from BeX in WeBI is supported or not? If yes, why this is happening, and how to resolve it?
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Edited by: VIPUL GOYAL on Nov 23, 2011 9:44 PM

Hi,
See 1285993 - Support of Customer Exit Variables from BEx query into WebIntelligence via OLAP universe
WebI will prompt when executed, but the default values calculated by the user exit - do not appear.
Note: If the BEx variable has property 'ready for input' set / enabled, then its WebI prompt shows ok, but no default value appears.
Cause
This behaviour expected 'by design' (in the context of the product's current limitations) as explained in the online guide below:
Please refer to Chapter 7, page 44, document link here: http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir3/en/xi3_sap_olap_universes_en.pdf
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regards,
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