Progress question on calculated filed

That worked great - thanks for your help!!

John

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> I'm trying to displace a Crystal report with a dashboard and have a formula like this:
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> ((JobOper.ActProdHours) - (JobOper.EstProdHours)) /(JobOper.EstProdHours) * (100)
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> I will have negative values from this and when I use crystal I use an "abs" in front of the formula to remedy this. Does anyone know of a way to get an absolute number using Progress syntax?
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> Thanks!
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> John
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I'm trying to displace a Crystal report with a dashboard and have a formula like this:

((JobOper.ActProdHours) - (JobOper.EstProdHours)) /(JobOper.EstProdHours) * (100)

I will have negative values from this and when I use crystal I use an "abs" in front of the formula to remedy this. Does anyone know of a way to get an absolute number using Progress syntax?

Thanks!

John
ABSOLUTE( n )

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-----Original Message-----
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of John
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 12:32 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Progress question on calculated filed

I'm trying to displace a Crystal report with a dashboard and have a formula like this:

((JobOper.ActProdHours) - (JobOper.EstProdHours)) /(JobOper.EstProdHours) * (100)

I will have negative values from this and when I use crystal I use an "abs" in front of the formula to remedy this. Does anyone know of a way to get an absolute number using Progress syntax?

Thanks!

John



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