I am trying to replicate a word document as a report in Reporting Services 2008r2.
I need to create a table, with some cells spanning more than 1 column. Essentially it's a 3 column table, but sometimes the 2nd column should fill the space of the 3rd.
I can't find a good way of creating this in Report Builder 3 - I have tried using a table and matrix but cannot achieve what I want.
This report is for 1 record, I want a table of data related to a record and do not want to create textboxes and rectangles and arrange them neatly to get what i want.
Each field should have its own row - but some of those rows will be split with 2 values.
Does anyone have a good method to create what I want? Please don't tell me this isn't the 'norm' and how to do the normal way - I need to replicate an existing layout.
I have solved my issue by deleting the 'Header' row from the table. Then using it like a normal table in any MS Office app, I have also ensured that my Dataset only contains 1 row which may have had some bearing on my issue...
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I have a database, which contains information that I can't share images of due to compliance reasons.
I have a table I need to copy data from, so I was using the following SQL:
INSERT INTO completedtrainingstestfinal (MALicenseNum)
SELECT MALicenseNum
FROM CompletedTrainings
WHERE (CompletedTrainings.MALicenseNum IS NOT NULL)
AND (CompletedTrainings.Employee = completedtrainingstestfinal.Employee);
It keeps popping up the Enter Parameter Value, centered on the new table (named completedtrainingstestfinal) at the Employee column.
Background: The original table is a mess, and this is to be the replacement table, I've had to pivot the table in order to clean it up, and am now trying to remove an ungodly amount of nulls. The goal is to clean up the query process for the end users of this who need to put in training and certification/recertification through the forms.
When you look in the old table, it has been designed to reference another table and display the actual names, but as seen in the image below it is storing the data as the integer number Employee.
The new table Employee column was a direct copy but only displays the integer, my instincts tell me that the problem is here, but I have been unable to find a solution. Anyone have any suggestions to throw me in the right direction?
Edited to add: It might be an issue where the tables have different numbers of rows?
This is the design view of the two relevant tables :
Table 1
Table 2
I am fairly new to Pentaho, and while working on it, I have stumbled across a problem. Below is how my flow is:
Read input from a file. Let's say this has 5 columns.
Make some modifications to existing columns. (Filter, modify and all).
Add a new column, which will be equal to an SQL function of the current row data. Example, it can be sum(id, id+1)
Dump to the database.
Step 1,2, 4 are already in place and are working fine. It's Step 3 where I am stuck. I've tried to execute SQL, but that is only for Modifying DDL and doesn't return data. Table input needs data to be in a table already, which isn't the case with me.
I have a workaround, that I can enter all rows in DB, and then fire an update query, but I was hoping if there is a better way to do this.
You can add formula step and in the formula column, you can specify what you want to achieve. For example, your other column+1 and save it in a new field or also replace the existing field value
I need some help and I know I am not the only one to deal with this issue but I am wondering if you might have some ideas on how to handle the situation of comparing two rows of data filling out start and end dates.
To give you some context, we have a huge hierarchy (approx 8,000 rows and about 12 columns wide) that is updated each year. Sometimes the values change and sometimes they don’t. When the values don’t change, then I don’t need to adjust the dates. When the values do change and a new row is added, I need to change the data.
I have attached some fake data to try and illustrate my data. I am building this in MS Access, so I think this is more of a DBA type question that is going to be manipulated via a recordset type method.
In my example I have two tables – Old Table and New Table. In each table there is a routing code field that represents my join field and primary key for this table.
The Old table represents existing data - tblMain. The New Table represents the data to be appended - tblTemp.
To append the data, I have an append query set up in Access. I perform a left join between the Old and New tables, joining on every field and append the rows that are null in the Old table. That’s fine and that is not where my issue is.
What is causing me issue is how to fill out the start and end dates.
So as you can see from my tables, we are running a zoo. Let’s just say for the sake of the argument, our zoo started off pretty simple and has become more sophisticated. We now want our hierarchy to expand out and become a bit more detailed as we are now capturing the type of animal (Level 4) and the native location (Level 5).
As you can see when comparing one table to another the routing codes are the same, so the append query has to have a join on each field. When you do this, you return the Result Table which is essentially the Old and New tables stacked on top of each other. You might think about a Union query but this is going to give me duplicates and I don’t want that.
If you notice in the Result Table there is a Start and End Date. Let’s just say I get the start and end dates via message box that pops up upon the import of the data and is held in a variable. I think there are dates in my real data but still trying to verify this.
So how do I compare (pseudo code for the logic needed)?
• For each routing code:
Compare Levels 1-5
If the routing code is the same but Levels 1 -5 are not the same
fill out the end date of the old record
fill out the start date of the new record
This idea of comparing two records and filling out a data is quite prevalent in my organization but I haven’t found a way of creating the logic that consistently works so any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Old Table
New Table
Result Table
I have a 4x4 table in SQL with 20 rows. I want to split this data into four pages. Page 1 has the first 10 rows of the first column, Page 2 has the first 10 rows of the second column, etc.
After every four pages, this patern repeats showing the next 10 rows from the first column, etc. How can I arrange this?
I could arrange the data of the 4x4 table into another temporary table with just one column in its schema. Then I could read a single column of this table into my report. But can I instead do this directly without an intermediary table?
The intermediary table sounds like the best solution to me. I'd just write a custom SQL command in Crystal's Database Expert to arrange the data as you see fit.
You could in theory pull this off with repeating subreports in some manner of repeating header, but it would be much less work to have SQL properly format the incoming data for you.
I have a PowerPivot table that has a column of IDs and a linked table that contains a set of specific IDs that I want to use to create an indicator variable which I can use to sort on in existing tables and charts. Essentially I want:
If the value in column EpisodeID is found anywhere in LostEpisodes[LostID], then return the value "1", otherwise "0".
LostEpisodes is the linked table and LostID is the column that contains the subset of IDs I want to be able to sort on.
I have tried using =IF(VALUES(LostEpisodes[LostID])=[EpisodeID],1,0) but got an error. Is my syntax wrong or should I be using a different approach? Seems simple enough, but I am new to PowerPivot and DAX.
Thanks
OK - So I have found an answer that works and wanted to share. Others may have more elegant solutions, but this worked. This is where I miss MATCH.
I have a linked table called LostEpisodes which contains 2 columns, EpisodeID and Lost (all contain the value of 1 as they are all lost episodes). For my purposes I am manually entering the episode IDs as there are only a few. EpisodeID is also in the main table and is the column I am matching on.
I started with one new column labeled LostLookup with the following formula:
=LOOKUPVALUE(LostEpisodes[Lost],LostEpisodes[EpisodeID],[EpisodeID])
I then created a new column with the following formula:
=if(ISBLANK([LostLookup]),"NotLost","Lost")
This creates the indicator variable I can now use in pivot tables and charts. I have tested it and it works great.
Hope this makes sense!