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How to select only distinct records from a table?

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Hi All,

I am quite new to NAV. I want to select distinct rows from a table? 

Thanks in Advance.

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  • Saurav.Dhyani Profile Picture
    14,419 User Group Leader on at

    Hi Axboy,

    Can you provide an example and for which version of NAV / BC?

  • AXBOY Profile Picture
    625 on at

    It's for business Central.

    I have to select all the records from JoB table whose type is resource and that too resource.typpe: Person. Then from these records I want only those records whose person name is unique.

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    Saurav.Dhyani Profile Picture
    14,419 User Group Leader on at

    I think you are referring table Resource not Job.

    Below code sample will show those unique Resource Name -

    LOCAL GetUniqueResources()

    Resource.RESET;

    Resource.SETCURRENTKEY("Name");

    Resource.SETRANGE(Type,Resource.Type::Person);

    IF Resource.FINDSET THEN REPEAT

     IF PrevResourceName = Resource.Name THEN

       MESSAGE('%1',Resource.Name);

     PrevResourceName := Resource.Name;

    UNTIL(Resource.NEXT=0);

    I hope it helps.

  • AXBOY Profile Picture
    625 on at

    Hi Saurav, thanks for the reply.

    I have Job No. with me , and using that i want to build a string with Job.Description , of planning lines type=resource, resource.type=person with unique Job.No values. Can u pls help me with this?

  • Saurav.Dhyani Profile Picture
    14,419 User Group Leader on at

    You need to share an example what you want before i can help you.

  • AXBOY Profile Picture
    625 on at

    I am building a report where the user will select a Job Number and based on that number report will print data from the Job Planning lines related to that Job Number.

    Now for one of the fields ,i have display a string in the form: JobPlanning.Description1,JobPlanning..Description2, JobPlanning.Description3.....etc , where JobPlanning.Type = Resource and that Resource.Type= Person.

    I am able to achieve till here, but i want the String to have unique Description , that is i do not want that string to contain duplicate Person names. Hope you get my point.

  • Saurav.Dhyani Profile Picture
    14,419 User Group Leader on at

    Sorry, I still didnt understand.

    I may need some sample data to understand requirment.

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    Raju Gudipalli Profile Picture
    185 on at

    Use code like this to eliminate the duplicates

    Mydescription : text;

    If strpos(mydescription,jobplanninglines.description)  = 0 then

    Mydescription += jobplanninglines.description.

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