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Posted: **Tue Nov 11, 2014 6:06 am**

Hi,

The smpl option in the linkto command does not seem to work for unstructured pages. In the following example, I get an error in the link object:
*** Unable to Perform Link ***
Error in Sample: Illegal date IF AMONTH="SEPTEMBER".

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WfCreate(wf=C:\Temp\test.wf1) u 10

Alpha aStudentName = "Brian"
aStudentName(2)    = "Anne"
aStudentName(3)    = "Anne"

Alpha aMonth = "january"
aMonth(3)    = "september"
aMonth(4)    = "september"

Series TestScore = 3

PageRename untitled RawData
PageCreate(page=ScoreInSeptember) u 10
Alpha aName = "Anne"

Link Score
Score.linkto(c=unique,Smpl="if aMonth="september"") RawData\TestScore @src aStudentName @dest aName

This is a simplification of an actual calculation I am trying undertake.

Regards,
/Erik.

Posted: **Tue Nov 11, 2014 8:45 am**

You need this:

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Score.linkto(c=unique,Smpl="if aMonth=""september""") RawData\TestScore @src aStudentName @dest aName

But, there's a bug in EViews right now where we're uppercasing the smpl string, so the "september" is converted to "SEPTEMBER", which means there are no matches.

Posted: **Wed Nov 12, 2014 1:13 am**

Thanks, it works. This seems to solve the uppercase issue:

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Score.linkto(c=unique, Smpl="If @UPPER(aMonth)=""september""") RawData\TestScore @src aStudentName @dest aName

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