The company I work for has a parcel-tracking software that we sell to our customers. It uses SQL-database to store the data. And to create reports for the parcels delivery times and other stuff, like exceptions, costs, signatures, we use crystal reports.
One of our customers would like a SLA report, where they want to track the time between a certain location to the time where is has been delivered.
The formula must contain:
Package Status, in this case it's LOCSCAN
Package Location, it's X-ray
And the time that is has been scanned to that location.
I have all the data in the SQL-database, but I cant figure out the formula for this.
A brief description of the workflow:
The parcel arrives at the site.
They scan it in to the system, thus gets an received date/time, location:Goods and status: RECEIVED.
After that they put the parcel trough a x-ray scanner, so it doesnt contain any illegal stuff. Scans the parcel with the new status: LOCSCAN, location:X-ray and a new date/time.
After that, they deliver the parcel, to the receiver, and gets status: DELIVERED with a new date/time.
All the date/time fields are seperated from eachother, stored in individual columns, dependent on the status of the parcel.
I'm using Crystal Reports, where I'm trying to create the formula.
Use the datediff function:
datediff('d', {startingdate}, {endingdate})
First a formula for RECEIVED to LOCSCAN and then LOCSCAN to DELIVERED if I'm understanding correctly.
The 'd' stands for days, you can replace with 'h' for hours or 's' for seconds. The fields between {} are the ones from database.
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I was wondering if anyone had a method of running a report to see what a user is doing in Epicor or what they are printing. We are having users report that in the middle of the night, when no one is here at the plant, there are 500 page reports being printed. We are able to see in the print queue who printed what, but the report doesn't match up with anything in our system. We would have for example a report called DailySales.rpt, but in the printer queue it would be something like hb986a87dthr.rpt. Just wondering if anyone else has seen this, or would have a solution that would let me see what a user is printing.
It is not possible to link the print job directly to the SysTask record because neither the print job number, the temp file, nor mac addresses are saved in Epicor for cross referencing. It can be approximated by looking at runtimes and the SysTask record.
You can create a BAQ and BAQ report to display Active and recently completed SysTask information by user. This will give you the report run, start/end times, user, and current status. If you need more detailed information such as the criteria used in the report, you can also join to the SysTaskParam table. Keep in mind that the SysTaskParam table is fully normalized by field name, so you may want to join multiple copies of the table with specific criteria if you need a lot of information. Unfortunately, for "print all pages" jobs, Epicor doesn't know how many pages the report will be until after the data is instantiated and then it is rendered in the reporting software, so you won't be able to get any estimate of number of pages or size.
There are many strategies for mitigating the issue you described. Here are a couple:
You can use criteria within the BAQ to limit the number of records returned for a specific query
You can create a subquery criteria from BAQ parameters to return no data when abnormally open parameters are used for the report (e.g. > 30 days range). You could also use this method with time gates based on the current system time.
Retrain users
I have a report on PowerBI that has many pages/tabs and each one also has alot of data being displayed. As I didn't design this, I'm going through the report to eliminate as much as I can and possibly splitting the report as alot of the data only requries refreshing once a week.
This is where my query comes in, I have information on one page that requires a refresh every two hours over a 12 hour duration, one field of data that requires a daily refresh and two more fields only require refreshing when required.
Is it possible to segment scheduled refreshes throughout a single part of the report, or does scheduled refresh only allow the entire report to be refreshed? (I.E. Sales status is hourly, Outbound status is daily, and sales summary is weekly)
I'd rather avoid having to split reports, as it is very handy to have them on one page; rather than having to open two and view them on multiple monitors.
I am just starting out on PowerBI reports, having been shown enough to get what I need done; but plan to delve further in, this being my first port of call if it is possible.
Thanks for any reponses in advance.
Brian.
No. It's Not Possible.
PowerBI Internal working like Tabular Model.
In Import mode we can not do incremental refresh also.
So other option is you can create Reporting layer and define denormilized with calucaluated columns Reporting tables.( Sales ,summary )
and use Direct query or Refresh and Do ETL for This table.
So you can schedule ETL for specific Tables i.e.Sales or summary.
I'm been using FM for the first time and have a need to use Get Summary on a financial information table. This generates various summaries of different income by customer, year and type. The layout generated from this table is good. The use of Get Summary allows me to do math with the various results, whereas sub summary totals by income type (as far as I know) cannot be added and divided by each other.
The problem I'm facing is that I wish now to create a layout based on customers and include some of the Get Summary detail from the financial table. Because my new layout is based on customers, I understand I cannot use Get Summary from financial as either a related field or in a portal.
The end game is simply to scroll through customer records, one after the other, and have key financial information show on their 'home' screen if you will, for years and type.
Any help gratefully appreciated. Thanks
I understand I cannot use Get Summary from financial as either a
related field or in a portal.
No, that's not quite correct. The GetSummary() function returns the sub-summary value by breakfield - if records are sorted by breakfield. Thus if the portal (or the underlying relationship) sorts the related records by type, you will see sub-summary values in the portal. However, you won't be able to see only sub-summary values, since a portal has no sub-summary parts.
There are other ways to show summarized related data. If you don't have (and don't expect to have) a large amount of records, considering filtering a (one-row) portal to show only a specific type of related records, then place the summary field inside it. Of course, this assumes the types are known in advance and unchanging.
We have a log that tracks faxes sent through our fax server. It is a .csv that contains Date_Time, Duration, CallerID, Direction (i.e. inbound/outbound), Dialed#, and Answered#. This file is overwritten every 10 minutes with any new info that was tracked on the fax server. This cannot be changed to be appended.
Sometimes our faxes fail, and the duration on those will be equal to 00:00:00. We really don't know if they are failing until users let us know that they are getting complaints about missing faxes. I am trying to create a Powershell script that can read the file and notify us via email if there are n amount of failures.
I started working on it, but it quickly became a big mess as I ran into more problems. One issue I was trying to overcome was having it email us over and over if there are certain failures. Since I can't save anything on the original .csv's, I was trying to preform these ideas in the script.
Copy .csv with a new header titled "LoggedFailure". Create file if it doesn't exist.
Compare the two files, and add different data (i.e. updates on the original) to the copy.
Check copied .csv for Durations equal to 00:00:00. If it is, mark the LoggedFailure header as "Yes" or some value.
If there are n amount of failures, email us.
Have this script run as a scheduled task (every hour or so).
I'm having difficulty with maintaining the data. I haven't done a lot of work with scripting or programming, so I'm having trouble with making the correct logic. I can look up cmdlets and understand them, but my main issue is logic. Does anyone have any tips or could provide some ideas on how to best update the data, track failures as to not send duplicate information, and have it run?
I'd use a hash table with the Dialed# as the key. Create PSCustomObjects that have LastFail date and FailCount properties as the values. Read through the log in chronological order, and add/increment a new entry in the hash table every time it finds an entry with Duration of 00:00:00 that's newer than what's already in the hash table. If it finds a successful delivery event, delete the entry with that Dialed# key from the hash table if it exists.
When it's done, the hash table keys will be a collection of the Dialed numbers that are failing, and the objects in the values will tell you how many failures there have been, and when the last one was. Use that to determine determine if an alert needs to be sent, and what numbers to report.
When a problem with a given fax number is resolved, a successful fax to that number will clear the entry from the hash table, and stop the alerts.
Save the hash table between runs by exporting it as CLIXML, and re-import it at the beginning of each run.
I need to write an SSRS report that displays data based on user selected options (parameters). The report will be run on either paid or unpaid data. If the selection is for unpaid data, the report does not need a date value (it will select all the unpaid records in the database). However, if the user selects paid data, they should also put in a date range. Is there a way to either hide or disable the date parameters if the user selects unpaid data?
I have found several forums that indicate this isn't possible, but want to verify with the folks here on stackoverflow (I have a higher level of confidence with the responses here). I also looked at cascading parameters but this doesn't seem to fit that mold.
Thanks for your help!