I have a crystal report that I need to set to produce a new page when an id number changes. What is some SQL code to identify when a value changes for a column. Say this column is named ID and it is an arbitrary set of numbers 0000000 format etc, how can I code to know when this number changes?
You don't need SQL for this.
In your report, open your Group Expert. Group your report by your unique ID. You will now see 2 new sections in your report design, a Group Footer and a Group Header.
Open your Section Expert. Click on the Group Header to access the options therein. Turn on the New Page Before option.
This can be done within Crystal Reports. Perform a grouping on the column, and tell it to apply a new page break after in Section Expert.
Grouping is probably better, but if that doesn't work for you, try the Previous() and Next() functions in the Formula editor to see if the value of the field has changed or is about to change.
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Basically I'd like to from this :
What I have
To this :
What I Want
Case in Orange are data that I pick up with an sql request while "This e-learning phase..." is just a plain text.
Does anybody knows how to do that ?
You could add a Parent Row Group and Group by the Information field.
Unfortunately, this would place the Information on the Left side of the table. Fortunately, there is a Layout Direction property for the table that can be switched from LTR to RTL so that the table is created from Right to Left instead of the default Left to Right.
This way the grouped information field on the right would only have one cell while there may be multiple Activities.
I'm not sure you'll be able to do this exactly how you want. This is because you cannot add rowgroup columns after non-grouped columns.
The only way you could get close is to not show the text if it's not the first row in the dataset (or rowgroup if the report is grouped somewhere)
You could use something like this in the Value expression.
=IIF(
ROWNUMBER("myDataSet_Namehere") =1,
"This e-learning phase must be completed before the start of the classroom part indicated below.",
Nothing
)
You could use a similar check to then set the vertical alignment property.
It looks like this...
The other option would be to move the test to the top of the table on it's own row in above the column headers, it would probably look neater..
Or you can wait for somebody else to come up with a better solution :)
I have a report that basically is being used to populate textboxes using an sql query for a given order number. This generates the invoice well but i am now trying to see if its possible to rerun the same report with another order number through the sql query but append the new report onto the first one to basically have two concatenated instances of the report for export as a pdf. I've looked and the only thing ive found is using something like:
Dim reportinstance As New Report_Invoice
but i'm lost on how to repopulate the new instance with different data and append it together, any help is appreciated!
You can use the WHERE part of the report's parameters to do this. Something like:
Docmd.OpenReport "rptInvoice",acViewPreview,,"InvoiceID IN(1,4)"
This will open the report rptInvoice limited to show those that have an InvoiceID of either 1 or 4. You may need to build up the WHERE statement using VBA, perhaps from choices selected in a list box.
I am working on a SSRS report with a Multi Value Parameter which contains list of names. I have written an expression for the title that works like "Result for SELECTED NAME". It also have an option of (Select All) which displays all the results with title as "Result for MULTIPLE NAME". It is working fine up to this part.
Now I have to modify the report like, If i select multiple values, the report should break into pages with each selected name on different page with title for that individual parameter value(name) as "Result for SELECTED NAME".
Please help me. Thank you.
You can place the entirety of your current report (excluding headers/footers) into a List object. I assume youa re returning the selected values from the parameter (like Manager Name) as part of your DataSet. Assuming this is the case
Create a new list
Insert the contents of your report into the rectangle of this List
Right click the List Row Header and Select Row Group -> Group Properties
Set the Group to Group on
=Fields!ManagerName.Value
This approach will take a simple table like this
And break it into a list like this
Then you can just set the Tablix Properties of the List to Add a Page Break After to checked
Hopefully this is helpful. If you have further questions on this then please let me know
I worked on it and found a way to make it happen. I first created the row group for Names. Then applied the page break for each instance option. Then deleted that group column (Only deleted column but not group). Then added that group in a static column on the top, and wrote an expressions to show that group itself as a title using concatenation.
But here I faced another problem, when there is no data for the selected name, the title row isn't displayed in the preview as it also a column in the table.
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'm creating a report where I want to send a parameter for the number of records to display (I do not want to select the number of records in SQL)
I have created a parameter field (?topN) and set the group to use this value which in design mode works well however when I try to set this parameter in vb.net code it does not work.
The field which also displays the value shows the parameter correctly though.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Try this in the Section Expert, in the Suppress code option:
Recordnumber > ?#topN
If you are grouping, you could use the TOP-N feature of group sorting.