I have a simple query that I am running within a report on SSRS 2008, this query simply takes a date from the user of the report and a user code which is a simple md5 hashed code based on their local user id.
and this filters down the report to a subset of data relative to the period and the user selected. This report takes the below parameters:
select * from
ops
where [Late Flag] = 'Late Start'
and [Planned Session Start Time] >= #start
and [Planned Session Start Time] < #end
and [Hashed Surgeon 1 Code] IN (#UserCode)
The problem starts to appear when this data-set is filtered down using these parameters and then the user wishes to see the charts, which again is a simple button click, the action of which runs another report showing the charts for the same period.
I am passing the session ID's of all of the sessions relating to the user as a parameter to the charts report. The charts report is only based on the below:
select * from
ops
where [Session ID] in (#SessionID)
I expect to see multiple sessions here if a user has more than one in the period. but the report is only displaying one of these even though I have allow multiple values checked and I am using an IN as can be seen above.
Question is, has anyone had this problem before if so what can I do about it, I need to see all sessions in the same period selected for that particular user. It is very frustrating I have thought of everything I can am I missing something?
After reviewing the suggested approaches kindly provided by #Lukasz Szozda I realised that the best approach for me in this situation would be to create a max and min of each session date that could be passed to the charts report.
This removed the need to parameterise the IN statement. Obviously not a solution for everyone where passing multi values to multi values is required but worked nicely for me.
I must also state that this will only work for passing a single userCode in my setup, if I wanted to see more than one UserCode activity for the same period then I would need to follow the suggested approach and commit to parameterising the IN statement.
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Context:
Due to the remote nature of working, the team I work in each have a laptop that they're using for their role (we have thinkpad displaylink units when in the office to connect the laptop to screens). I am working to improve the current allocation records file, which was just a big spreadsheet that you just added a new user to the bottom row. It was messy and hard to read at times, so i've decided to move the data into MS Access and created my data entry and user lookup form, which are working perfectly and make the job easier. I have also been able to make a number of reports that will come in handy too (who has what model ect).
Query:
Now the issue is, each of the laptops have a warranty and I am able to produce reports which lists the users and their warranty due date, but this will show all the warranty dates, whether they've been passed or in the future. I want to be able to produce 2 report/queries, the first that will just bring up the laptops who have a warranty that have expired, then another one to bring up those who will expire within the next 6 months so that we can make relevant decisions.
If anyone can assist with this, it will be welcome.
Apply filter criteria to report when opening. Either have parameters in report RecordSource or use code (VBA or macro) to build criteria for OpenReport method WHERE CONDITION argument. Expressions for criteria (ExpireDate is field, substitute with your field name):
[ExpireDate] <= Date();
[ExpireDate] BETWEEN Date() AND DateAdd("m", 6, Date())
I am new to Qlikview and after several failed attempts I have to ask for some guidance regarding charts in Qlikview. I want to create Line chart which will have:
One dimension – time period of one month broke down by days in it
One expression – Number of created tasks per day
Second expression – Number of closed tasks per day
Third expression – Number of open tasks per day
This is very basic example and I couldn’t find solution for this, and to be honest I think I don’t understand how I should setup my time period dimension and expression. Each time when I try to introduce more then one expression things go south. Maybe its because I have multiple dates or my dimension is wrong.
Here is my simple data:
http://pastebin.com/Lv0CFQPm
I have been reading about helper tables like Master Callendar or “Date Island” but I couldn’t grasp it. I have tried to follow guide from here: https://community.qlik.com/docs/DOC-8642 but that only worked for one date (for me at least).
How should I setup dimension and expression on my chart, so I can count the ID field if Created Date matches one from dimension and Status is appropriate?
I have personal edition so I am unable to open qwv files from other authors.
Thank you in advance, kind regards!
My solution to this would be to change from a single line per Call with associated dates to a concatenated list of Call Events with a single date each. i.e. each Call will have a creation event and a resolution event. This is how I achieve that. (I turned your data into a spreadsheet but the concept is the same for any data source.)
Calls:
LOAD Type,
Id,
Priority,
'New' as Status,
date(floor(Created)) as [Date],
time(Created) as [Time]
FROM
[Calls.xlsx]
(ooxml, embedded labels, table is Sheet1) where Created>0;
LOAD Type,
Id,
Priority,
Status,
date(floor(Resolved)) as [Date],
time(Resolved) as [Time]
FROM
[Calls.xlsx]
(ooxml, embedded labels, table is Sheet1) where Resolved>0;
Key concepts here are allowing QlikView's auto-conatenate to do it's job by making the field-names of both load statements exactly the same, including capitalisation. The second is splitting the timestamp into a Date and a time. This allows you to have a dimension of Date only and group the events for the day. (In big data sets the resource saving is also significant.) The third is creating the dummy 'New' status for each event on the day of it's creation date.
With just this data and these expressions
Created = count(if(Status='New',Id))
Resolved = count(if(Status='Resolved',Id))
and then
Created-Resolved
all with full accumulation ticked for Open (to give you a running total rather than a daily total which might go negative and look odd) you could draw this graph.
For extra completeness you could add this to the code section to fill up your dates and create the Master Calendar you spoke of. There are many other ways of achieving this
MINMAX:
load floor(num(min([Date]))) as MINTRANS,
floor(num(max([Date]))) as MAXTRANS
Resident Calls;
let zDateMin=FieldValue('MINTRANS',1);
let zDateMax=FieldValue('MAXTRANS',1);
//complete calendar
Dates:
LOAD
Date($(zDateMin) + IterNo() - 1, '$(DateFormat)') as [Date]
AUTOGENERATE 1
WHILE $(zDateMin)+IterNo()-1<= $(zDateMax);
Then you could draw this chart. Don't forget to turn Suppress Zero Values on the Presentation tab off.
But my suggestion would be to use a combo rather than line chart so that the calls per day are shown as discrete buckets (Bars) but the running total of Open calls is a line
I have a .RDL report which I designed in BIDS and have deployed to my report server. The report asks for three parameters before viewing report: Year, Month and Customer ID. The report works great and does exactly what it is supposed to.
While I used to run each report individually because there were 2-3 customers, now there are 30+ customers who receive the report, so I wanted to switch to a more automated fulfillment method to get the reports generated. After doing some research it appears that a using Report Manager to create a "Data Driven Subscription" (DDS) using the "Windows File Share" option gives me the capabilities I need.
As part of creating the DDS, I created a table called [Subscription] which is a table containing one row for each customer receiving the report and has the following columns:
Year
Month
CustomerID
FileName
FileLocation
Overwrite
Format
...so through using the DDS Wizard in Report Manager, I was able to successfully set up a Data Driven Subscription (which is linked to various columns in the [Subscription] table) which creates a new report for each customer in the [Subscription] table, saves [and overwrites, if necessary] it in a location of my choosing as a PDF (specified in [Subscription].[FileLocation], or the FileLocation column of my table for each row), and runs every minute (I plan on changing frequency to once a week, eventually).
This works flawlessly, giving me a new set of 30 reports in the directory of my choosing, with each report having a name I assigned in the FileName column of my table. Exactly what I was looking for.
HERE'S THE PROBLEM: When I update the FileLocation or FileName (or anything, really) in the [Subscription] table - it doesn't pick up the changes right away. Sometimes it doesn't even pick it up at all (for example I updated the [ReportName] column for one customer from Report_711622 to SpecialReport_711622, so that the output file for that customer should be named SpecialReport_711622 while all of the other reports should be called Report_XXXXX [no Special prefix]. But the file name of report for Customer 711622 remains the same!
It's almost like the job only see's what it needs to do once a day, and then does not go back and reference the [Subscription] table until I leave for the night, then when I come back in the morning it picks up the change.
Since I am about to scale this process out to a large customer-base using a different report, I need to be able to make edits to the [Subscription] table and have them get picked up by the Data Driven Subscription immediately (and if not immediately, at least a fixed interval of time that I can adjust, so that I can know 100% when the change will get picked up).
Does anyone know what's causing my lag? How do I change it so that updates to the Subscription table get picked up regularly? I'm also having issues with creating new DDS on other reports (following the exact process outlined above) - I've created the subscriptions, for every minute, and it says they are running and the number of outputs match the number of customers with 0 errors, but there are no files in the drive I specified (or anywhere else I've looked, for that matter).
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I think the answer lies in the mechanism SSRS uses. There are a few places "lag" can occur.
The subscription is in fact an SQL Agent job which creates a record in the Event table. This table is a queue that SSRS checks to do scheduled tasks.
There is a small amount of time between the moment the subscription creates the Event record and the moment SQL reads it and starts creating the dataset for your DDS. The creation of the DDS dataset takes some time, too. In this time, the subscription will be in the Pending state. If you change anything in the data during this time, The subscription will still use the old data as report parameters. So obviously you will not notice your change until the next scheduled run.
Which brings me to the following: if a subscription is still being run and the next schedule kicks in (chances are, because yours runs every minute), the engine will not execute it, but wait for the next subscription schedule, and so on. So that's another possibility of lag - and cause of missing reports for a certain schedule minute. The subscription processes reports sequentially, one row from your DDS recordset at a time. Again, this takes some time. You can also see that in the subscription window when it says: # of # processed.
I suggest you look at the Event table in the database ReportServer during an execution. Also the ExecutionHistory views (there are 3) may be interesting. A scheduled run shows up as a RequestType = 1 and generates one record for each report. You can see the exact timing and parameters of each report that is run in the subscription. You may be able to extract the data you need to resolve your other issues.
EDIT: Here is a more elaborate guide to DDS data and events
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/deanka/archive/2009/01/13/diagnosing-and-troubleshooting-subscriptions.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/deanka/archive/2010/02/16/troubleshooting-subscriptions-part-ii-using-the-report-services-trace-log-file.aspx
Could this "Double-Hop" problem be the source of my issues? I'm so stuck on this one!
The Double-Hop Problem - MSDN Knowledgecast
i have a database used at work for evaluating calls, the database is somewhat dated and originally created on Access XP. Once evaluated these calls are given a score out of 5 which is entered along with other data (such as date, employee name, etc) on a form. I have the reports set up so they generate when you enter the employee name and then the start of a date period and the end of a date period, the report will then generate and show the entries made between those 2 dates. i am trying to include a section on the report which shows an average of the call score for the employee for the period chosen. I understand this may be pretty simple but i'm struggling! cheers, Kris
If you want to work out group calculations on reports, you can either put them in the group header/footer, or report header/footer (for calculations over the whole report).
In this case, placing a textbox with something like =AVG([CallScore]) as the control source in the Report Footer should work.
This page should explain more about using aggregate functions in reports: http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/access-help/summing-in-reports-HA001122444.aspx
At my workplace there is a "Daily Feedback" database where details are entered of any errors made by Customer Service Officers (CSOs), such as who made the mistake, when, and what service it was for. this is so we can gather data which would show areas where CSO's are repeatedly making mistakes so we can feed this back to them and train them in those areas if need be.
i currently have a report where an CSOs name is entered along with a date range and it produces the report showing the number of errors made for each service for that date range.
the code used is -
=Sum(IIf([Service]="Housing",1,0))
=Sum(IIf([Service]="Environmental Health",1,0))
etc etc for each Service.
The problem i have is that not every CSO does EVERY service and so there are usually a few results showing as "0". and i cannot be sure if thats because they dont do the service or if they are just very good at that service.
Being absolutely useless at SQL (or any other possible way of fixing this) i cannot figure out how to HIDE the entries that produce the zero value.
any help here would be greatly appreciated!
Assuming you have a table with the fields CSO, Service, FeedbackComments you could modify the report record source to
SELECT [CSO], [Service], Count([FeedbackComments])
FROM [FeedbackTable]
GROUP BY [CSO], [Service];
Then services which have no records will not appear on the report.
I don't understand exactly what you want. But I want to mention you can use the COUNT() function along with SUM(). A count >0 will reveal if 0 means '0' instances or '0' errors.