I have a Cognos report that has four different sections/layouts, each containing their own list. I would like to use one section to perform calculations using another list from another section. Is that possible?
For example:
Section Two contains a list with Name, Week1 Commissions, Week2 Commissions, etc
I want Section One to calculate the first 11 weeks only so the List in Section One would contain
Name, Weeks 1 through 11 total.
What is the best way to make this happen if it's possible.
Section One would contain these columns which would perform the calculations
Name Week 1-11 totals |
Section Two would have these columns
Name Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 .....
Best,
Kev
Yes it is possible, and you can perform all of the logic in one query
There are many ways to do this
For example, the four different sections/layouts, selecting the list, go to properties you can use the same query for each list
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I have three SQL tables. Users, Registration Field Values, and Registration Fields.
Name
zip code
favorite food
Sue
55555
sushi
Gary
12345
eggs
Where zip code and favorite food are different registration fields.
The relationship is a user has many registration field values, and those values belong to the registration field.
I'm wondering how I can order my table based on a certain registration field. For example, selecting "favorite food", I would want "eggs" before "sushi".
This is confusing to me because I've only seen ORDER BY for an individual column or series of columns. I can't just ORDER BY registration_field_value.value because it needs to be based on only one of those registration fields.
This is like "ORDER BY field value where the associated field id is 'favorite food'", although I don't want to filter anything out.
I'm using Postgres if that makes a difference.
EDIT, adding a
:
You can use case to order based on specific value.
For eg:
ORDER BY
CASE "favorite food"
WHEN 'eggs' THEN 1
ELSE 2
END
The above query will move row with eggs to start and all other value will be moved to bottom.
I've been wracking my brain here trying to figure out a way to achieve a solution to the following without external applications (such as Excel).
I'll set up the structure: We are using a 3rd party ERP that provides a nicely configured conversion system for product packaging types. I'm trying to create a query that will take all conversions for a given product and return them inline. Because the number of conversion records is indeterminate, the query would need to be recursive.
To make things simple, let's use package quantites for this scenario example. If a product can be shipped in [eaches, pairs, sets, packages, and cartons], the conversion table records would look something like this:
pkConvKey
fkProdID
childUnit
parentUnit
chPerParent
ConvRec001
Prod123
each
pair
2
ConvRec002
Prod123
pair
set
3
ConvRec003
Prod123
set
pack
7
ConvRec004
Prod123
pack
carton
24
Using the table above, I can determine how many pairs of Prod123 are contained in a carton by following the math:
24 packs x 7 sets x 3 pairs = 504 pairs per carton.
I could further multiply that by 2 to get the count of individual pieces in a carton (1,008). That's the idea behind the conversion table but here's my actual problem.
I'd like to return a table of records where associated conversions are in-line, thusly:
fkProdID
unit1
unit2
qtyInUnit2
unit3
qtyInUnit3
unit4
qtyInUnit4
unit5
qtyInUnit5
Prod123
each
pair
2
set
3
pack
7
carton
24
Complicating the matter is that the unit types are unknown (arbitrary) values and there is no requirement to have a full, intact chain from unit A to unit Z. (For example, there might be a conversion record from each to pair, and another from set to pack, but not one from pair to set).
In this scenario, the select can't recursively link the records, and they would appear in the resulting table as two separate records - which is fine.
I have attempted to join the table to itself on t1.parentUnit = t2.childUnit, but that obviously doesn't work recursively.
I fear my only solution is to left join the table over and over - as many as 20 times in the query, settling for NULL values if additional conversions do not exist but then I would also have many duplicate rows (with incomplete conversion chains) to weed out.
Can this be done in a select query?
Thanks in advance!
-Dan
I want to define a cube measure in a SSAS Analysis Services Cube (multidimensional model) that calculates ratios for the selection a user makes for a predefined hierarchy. The following example illustrates the desired behavior:
|-City----|---|
| Hamburg | 2 |
| Berlin | 1 |
| Munich | 3 |
This is my base table. What I want to achieve is a cube measure that calculates ratios based on a users' selection. E.g. when the user queries Hamburg (2) and Berlin (1) the measure should return the values 67% (for Hamburg) and 33% (for Berlin). However if Munich (3) is added to the same query, the return values would be 33% (Hamburg), 17% (Berlin) and 50% (Munich). The sum of the values should always equal to 100% no matter how many hierarchy members have been included into the MDX query.
So far I came up with different measures, but they all seem to suffer from the same problem that is it seems impossible to access the context of the whole MDX query from within a cell.
My first approach to this was the following measure:
[Measures].[Ratio] AS SUM([City].MEMBERS,[Measures].[Amount])/[Measures].[Amount]
This however sums up the amount of all cities regardless of the users selection and though always returns the ratio of a city with regards to the whole city hierarchy.
I also tried to restrict the members to the query context by adding the EXISTING keyword.
[Measures].[Ratio] AS SUM(EXISTING [City].MEMBERS,[Measures].[Amount])/[Measures].[Amount]
But this seems to restrict the context to the cell which means that I get 100% as a result for each cell (because EXISTING [City].MEMBERS is now restricted to a cell it only returns the city of the current cell).
I also googled to find out whether it is possible to add a column or row with totals but that also seems not possible within MDX.
The closest I got was with the following measure:
[Measures].[Ratio] AS SUM(Axis(1),[Measures].[Amount])/[Measures].[Amount]
Along with this MDX query
SELECT {[Measures].[Ratio]} ON 0, {[City].[Hamburg],[City].[Berlin]} ON 1 FROM [Cube]
it would yield the correct result. However, this requires the user to put the correct hierarchy for this specific measure onto a specific axis - very error prone, very unintuitive, I don't want to go this way.
Are there any other ideas or approaches that could help me to define this measure?
I would first define a set with the selected cities
[GeoSet] AS {[City].[Hamburg],[City].[Berlin]}
Then the Ratio
[Measures].[Ratio] AS [Measures].[Amount]/SUM([GeoSet],[Measures],[Amount])
To get the ratio of that city to the set of cities. Lastly
SELECT [Measures].[Ratio] ON COLUMNS,
[GeoSet] ON ROWS
FROM [Cube]
Whenever you select a list of cities, change the [GeoSet] to the list of cities, or other levels in the hierarchy, as long as you don't select 2 overlapping values ([City].[Hamburg] and [Region].[DE6], for example).
Hopefully you can help!
I have a single data source in my SSRS report. With this data source, I have populated a tablix. The tablix looks something like this:
SalesPerson ID Group Sales
Sarah 1 1 1234
Ross 2 1 555
Gemma 3 2 678
Jill 4 2 345
Jack 5 3 987
Peter 6 2 432
Henry 7 2 356
The report is set up to create a different page for each of the sales people. for example, on the first page of the report, only first record would be shown (the record that holds Sarah's information, the second page would show the record for Ross' information ,etc..)
The issues I face is this:
At the bottom of the report, I need to include a textbox that displays the group number that the specific employee belongs to (the employee who is currently being displayed on the page).
I think that I need to do some sort of lookup on the IDReportItem to return the group ID in order to do this, but have had no luck in my attempts.
I understand that this is a horrible way of doing things, but I am limited to using this single dataset for performing this task.
Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated,
Thanks you!
Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a way to do this in a single textbox, but you can do it with a second tablix that uses the same dataset.
Create your second tablix and position it at the bottom of the page, then set your grouping to be the same on both tablixes and use the second tablix to only display the group ID, plus whatever label you want.
Create a new row group for each tablix (grouping on group ID), then right click the group and browse to Group Properties -> Page Breaks and check the box that says "Between each instance of a group". Do this for both tablixes.
This is what grouping is designed for. Build your table, and set the page break attribute to true.
You can have multiple rows under your group. Since your group is a field, simply add it to the detail row.
Your grouping is obviously set up right to get the report paging correctly.
You could add a List to the report, set the grouping on that (with page break between groups)
Inside the list - Add a RECTANGLE. (this be important!)
Once you've added the rectangle, you can add another as many objects as you like. In your case I think that may be a matrix and a text box
eg
Then it just becomes as spacing issue (to get the page looking right)
I have been trying out the MoreLikeThis Bundle to bring back a set of documents ordered by the number of matches in a field called 'backyardigans' compared to a key document. This all works as expected.
But what I would like to do is order by the number of matches of 3 separate fields added together.
An example record would be:
var data = new Data{
backyardigans = "Pablo Tasha Uniqua Tyrone Austin",
engines = "Thomas Percy Henry Toby",
pigs = "Daddy Peppa George Mummy Granny"
};
If another document matched 1 backyardigan 2 engines and 1 pig it would get a score of 4
If another document matched 2 backyardigans 4 engines and 0 pigs it would get a score of 6
These aggregated scores would be the field we would order the results by so they would come back 6,4 and so on.
Is there a way to achieve this with the MoreLikeThis bundle please?
This isn't possible, we use only a single field frequency for this.
This is important because we need to compare the score on a field basis, and it isn't really possible to compare it on a global basis without taking into account the per fields values.
Note that this is also a limitation in the underlying Lucene implementation, so there isn't much we can do about it.