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I am trying to create a calculated field for a RM Sales Invoice for a recurring batch to decrease the overall length of the invoice number in recurring batches. right now, our invoice numbers look like this D-12345600000000001. I want to create a calculated field to display the leftmost 8 and rightmost 4. I started by trying to create only the leftmost of the field, so I created the following calculated field:

Result Type: String

Expression Type: Calculated

LFT_STR(RM_OPEN_TEMP.Document Number 8)

The 8 I inserted as a constant integer

When I go to print the invoice, I am getting a message that there is an error in the calculated field. I'm not sure what I am doing wrong. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Kim

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RE: Report Writer Calculated Field LFT_STR

HI,

You need three calculated fields. I would approach it this way.

I would use the User-Defined System Fuction RW_Left and then the User-Defined System Function RW_Right and then concatenate the two fields together using STRIP in front of each formula. Here's what the three calculated fields look like:

!Left8= FUNCTION_SCRIPT(RW_Left RM_Sales_WORK.Document Number 8 )

!Right4= FUNCTION_SCRIPT(RW_Right RM_Sales_WORK.Document Number 4 )

!ShortDoc= STRIP(!Left8 ) # STRIP(!Right4 )

Kind regards

Leslie

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