Is there a way to display the results from a DataSet without a table control. If I try to use something like a label, and I use an expression for the label's value, I only see the first result.
Use a List. This will repeat through your data and allows for flexibility with your textboxes.
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Let me explain my problem,
in Pentaho Report Designer I want to build such a report, where I have one data set, i.e. one request to database
SELECT code, name FROM EMPLOYEES
and show result of this request not in the form of list, but put every result in appropriate place. i.e. like in below picture
Where field "code" is unique, just one result can be put into red label in picture.
How can I do this in Pentaho Report Designer?
I can solve this problem by creating 3 data set, for each of caption. But what if captions like this will be much more, creating requests for each of this caption will not be so effective.
Hope I could explain my question.
I don't know if I got it right, but If you want to use the values returned by your query, you could create a new formula called "your_formula":
=MULTIVALUEQUERY("name_of_your_query")
This will give you an array with the result of the query. Then you could use another formula to get the 1st result of the array. For example:
=ARRAYLEFT([your_formula])
and get the first result of your query. This way let you use your_formula as parameter. This means you can drag and drop it on your report and use it.
I hope it helps.
Regards,
Tatan.
i have two Data Sources. Each DataSource has some DataSets. What i want is a tablix to retrieve data from different datasets of those two DataSources. But it seems like that in a tablix i can just select one datasource at the same time. I cannot change datasource after select it.
I've tried the sql for each DataSource, there is no problem. But i have no idea about how to select different datasets from two different DataSources.
Appreciated for any suggestion!
You can select from more than one datasource if you use the expression editor for each field's value.
In the editor, click on "Datasets" in the lower left box (called "Category:"), and choose the dataset you want to get the value from in the lower middle box, and then in the lower right box, choose the field from that dataset that you want to get.
You will have to choose some aggregate function on the field, because when you use multiple datasets this way, you can't expect the tablix to be able to populate one table row per data row. But if your dataset only returns one row, you can simply use the First() function for pretty much any value you want to get.
I have created a query to calculate the sum of all of the profit values in a table, I tried to output this to a textbox on the main form of my database and I just the error #NAME?.
Has anyone tried this before and are there any major things I am missing?
We would need to see some code/design details to understand why your text box gets that #Name error.
Without those details, I'll just suggest you consider a DSum() expression, instead of a query, to load the text box. And DSum() is kind of like a SELECT query, but returns only a single value instead of a result set.
DSum("YourNumericField", "YourTable")
Examine the DSum online help topic for more details. You might find the optional Criteria parameter useful (like a WHERE clause in a SELECT statement) if you ever want to sum only a subset of rows from your table.
DSum("YourNumericField", "YourTable", "account_status = 'ACTIVE'")
If you have create query to calculate the sum called "querySum". On the form property sheet, make sure selection type you change to FORM, go to Data and select "querySum" as record source.
And then, click text box, go to the property sheet and choice Data > Control Source. So you can choice column from query to the text box.
Otherwise, if you want to use VBA. You can do like this
DSum("NumericField", "YourTable")
Or with condition
DSum("NumericField", "YourTable", "type = 'Payment'")
I want to do a calculation using two different datasets, but I cant seem to do it in the expression field. Any ideas on how I can add, multiply or divide using the two datasets? In the Fields, I added a new one and trying to set the expression only gives me DataSet1, but I want to add a DataSet2 field and a DataSet1 field.
Thanks guys
You can not directly use two data sets in there.
Imho you should move your data to db queries, then add a query that does your job, include this in your report then.
Alternative you can calculate some aggregat in a field, hide the field, do this with more/many as you want, then use your operatores on the result fields.
i have a report that is attached to a query
i want to display the contents of a query. there are three columns. i made a list box but it looks weird:
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i dont want the scroll bars, i just need the three fields from a query to be displayed regularly just as they would be in a spread sheet or grid
In your report's Detail section, create a text box (not a list box) for each of those 3 fields in your query.
It might be easier to get oriented by creating an autoform based on the query.