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Jade | Level 19

My BY variable is PAGE and I want to display Page 1, Page 2 etc. using and ENTRYFOOTNOTE.

 

I tried this which compiles

entryfootnote halign=right textattrs=(style=normal size=_footnotefontsize) eval(put("Page "||put(page,1.)||" of 2",$12.));

but generates the following NOTE and no output.

 

An expression used in a text statement resolves to a column. It must resolve to a constant. The expression will be ignored.

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djrisks
Barite | Level 11

Hi, 

Simplifying it, you can you _byval_ to output the page number, you also need to add _byval_ to the dynamic statement too.

 

Of the top of my head, this may work:

entryfootnote halign=right textattrs=(style=normal size=_footnotefontsize) "Page " _byval_ " of 2";

 

 

RW9
Diamond | Level 26 RW9
Diamond | Level 26

This bit:

eval(put("Page "||put(page,1.)||" of 2",$12.));

 

Does not look right to me, the put() function takes characters and makes numbers, but in the above it is putting text to text?  Have you tried:

eval(cat("Page ",put(page,1.)," of 2");

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