I have a table that contains the columns name age and Dept. I am new to report builder and wanted to know if there is a way possible to create dynamic tables based on distinct departments in the base table
Below is the base data
and this is how I want this to be represented in SSRS dynamically based on distinct items in the Dept. column
Thanks in advance!
Just add a Row Group to your table that grouped by Dept.
If you click the existing table you should see one of more row groups in the groups panel below the main design window. There might be just a single "Details" row group. Right click the row group and add a parent group, select Dept as the column to group by and that's it.
Figured this out.
Can use a list and add the desired table in there and then add in a group for the column required in the Group properties of the row
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I'd like to show the subtotals for each group at the bottom of my report, rather than inside each group. How can I do this?
Create another dataset that subtotals by currency and add a table at the end the displays the results.
You could add a second grouping to the table and group by your group. Right-click on the group --> Add Group --> Adjacent Below.
Then you'll have an extra grouping in the same table.
Or create a separate table using the same dataset but grouping by each group.
Given those relationships, how do I limit the choice of Leader in a given record in GroupResults to only those StudentResults.IDs, which have Class&Group set to the same value as in the ID field of that record without creating forms and using VBA?
If I assign SELECT StudentResults.ID, StudentResults.FullName FROM StudentResults; to the Row Source in [Leader], like this ,
I get all the records in the table to choose from, regardless of the [Class&Group] field value, like this .
How do I restrict the assignable records to only those that belong to the corresponding group?
I'd spent a very long time trying to find a way to run a parametrised SQL query to pass the [Class&Group] to the WHERE clause, but eventually had to give up.
Thank you very much for your help!
P.S. I do realise that this may or may not be more of an ms-access, rather than SQL question.
Tables are not designed to be user interfaces. Conditional comboboxes, validation, etc. work best on forms. Comboxbox lookup dropdowns are more an Access GUI convenience to show parent table indicators for key number values.
When queries are then run from such tables, these drop downs fields show to help us humans who naturally understand names and indicators rather than integer primary/foreign keys. So instead of Student: 1, we see Student: John Doe. In fact, such table field drop downs even helps generate the same comboboxes on Access forms and reports in advance to avoid the designer in building them upon clicking the form icons on ribbon.
However, for your needs consider adjusting combobox by showing the [Class&Group] field so the user can see or match the group of specific Leader with appropriate one for current record in Class column. See adjusted query and column count/heads.
Row Source: SELECT s.ID, s.[Class&Group], s.FullName FROM StudentResults s
Bound Column: 1
Column Count: 3
Column Heads: Yes
Also, if you want the Leader name to always show when table or query is opened instead of ID, reverse the order in query and change bound column:
Row Source: SELECT s.FullName, s.[Class&Group], s.ID FROM StudentResults
Bound Column: 3
Column Count: 3
Column Heads: Yes
Trying to create relationships (joins) between tables in power pivot.
Got 2 tables I wold like to join together, connected with a common column = CustomerID.
One is a Fact Table the other Dim table (look up).
I have run the "remove duplicates" on both tables without any problem.
But I still get an error saying : "the relationship cannot be created because each column contains duplicate values. Select at least one column that contains only unique values".
The Fact Table contains duplicates (as it should?) and the Dim Table do not, why do I get this error?
Help much appreciated
Created an appended table with both columns "CustomerID". After the columns where appended together I could "remove duplicates" and connect the tables together through the newly created appended table.
Don't know if this causes another problem later however.
You can also check for duplicate id values in a column by using the group by feature.
Remove all columns except ID, add a column that consists only of the number 1.
Group by ID, summing the content of the added column and filter out IDs whose total equals 1. What's left are duplicated IDs.
background
I am trying to create an SSRS report which will run select * on a table passed in as a parameter and display all the data from that table. As I understand it, I can't use a table for this. I want to use a pivot table to achieve this.
select * from #table will return something like this (from the adventureworks DB)
I want to display the date in this format:
Question
How do I achieve this? I looked at using PIVOT/UNPIVOT, but all the examples I've seen use static column names and aggregates.
I won't know the column names at design time (or run time), I'm assuming I will need column headers like 'table name', 'value1', 'value2' etc?
Limitations
I won't have access to create stored procedures. Ideally, the report should be able to be run entirely from SSRS without having to create new tables etc.
Performance is not a concern.
Edit
Editing to add some clarity. The column names in the example above are only an example. The #table parameter could be any table, column names won't be know at design time. The column names could be col1, col2, or name, address... etc.
You can do this with a normal tablix, with a column group on BusinessEntityID
Create a normal tablix.
Remove the row group (group only)
Insert a new parent column group, grouped by BusinessEntityID
Delete the top row (row only)
Add each of the row titles in, as per your suggested output
Add each of the values in the second column
I'm trying to define the row source of a lookup field by selecting the table name from a separate lookup box.
The catalog of products comprises of about 41 Product Groups, which are then further divided into Types, some of which have over 100 types.
I have a table of Product Groups (41 groups), and I then have a separate table of Types for each Product Group (41 tables). All Type table names are exactly as they appear on the Product Group table. I want to be able to select the Product Group from a Lookup Box, and then select the Type from the corresponding table in a separate lookup box.
The images below should help give an idea of what I'm looking to do.
Set up of my first lookup box:
Set up of my second lookup:
Is this possible, and if so can anyone lend a hand ?
Thanks.
Just to summarize, you will need a single table with your TypeID, GroupID, and any other "Type" related fields.
Your Group ComboBox should have the ID field as its first column (makes the filtering much easier), So your control source should be:
SELECT [ProductGroup]![GroupID], [ProductGroup]![ProductGroup]
FROM [ProductGroup]
ORDER BY [ProductGroup];
Then in the properties for Group ComboBox on the Format tab make your column width 0";x" to hide the ID field.
The control source for the Type ComboBox should be:
SELECT [NewTypeTable]![TypeID], [NewTypeTable]![TypeName]
FROM [NewTypeTable]
WHERE [NewTypeTable]![GroupID] Like [Forms]![frmWithComboBoxName]![CboPGroup]
ORDER BY [NewTypeTable]![TypeName];
And again, if you want to hide the ID field, make the first column width 0".
You should also requery the second combobox in the afterUpdate() event of CboPGroup which will filter the second combobox based on the new selection in CboPGroup. The code (VBA) for that would be:
Forms!frmWithComboBoxName!CboType.Requery