I am using iReport 4.1.3. I have created invoice report and I want to have 3 copies of same invoice report. The first invoice should have label as "ORIGINAL", second should have "DUPLICATE" and the third should have label as "TRIPLICATE" on it.
Thank you.
If you would like to show all three copies every time you open the report, here is a creative if not elegant solution.
Add a cross join to the FROM clause of your query returning the three different copies. In MySQL it looks like this:
CROSS JOIN
(
Select 'ORIGINAL' as copy, 1 as sequence
UNION
SELECT 'DUPLICATE' as copy, 2 as sequence
UNION
SELECT 'TRIPLICATE' as copy, 3 as sequence
) x
Then add the "copy" field to your select statement. This will cause your query to return 3 records for each record it was previously returning. One record with "ORIGINAL" in the copy field, one with "DUPLICATE" and one with "TRIPLICATE". Add "sequence" to your ORDER BY clause.
Then in the report, group by the "copy" field. Force a new page for each group and you should be all set. Any variables you are totaling at the report level you will need to change to the group level ("copy" group). And if you have any controls in the Summary section, move them to the new group footer section. Also create a text field to display the "copy" field in the page or group header.
It's not necessarily pretty, but it should work.
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Currently I can group just by one field not by two fields in a cross-tab
You should create a formula field that concatenates the text of these two fields, then use that formula as the field that you group on.
For reports, you just select Insert > Group and add a second group. For crosstabs, just add them to the Rows section.
If you want to have two physically separate statuses ("Temporary" and "Permanent") like in the picture, you'll want two physically separate crosstabs (the second of which will need to be in a subreport).
It would be easier to have one crosstab and just add the Status to the Row section.
I need to design a crystal report with 3 columns. Column 1 is a text box in the report, and column 2 and column 3 are datafields from a particular table.
Is it possible for me to use column1 as a parameter that would help me to fetch the other columns from the database??
col1 col2 col3
TextBox value1 value2
so when a user changes the value in TextBox, col2 and col3 value should reflect based on textbox value.
Or is there any other way in which i can achieve this??
There is no way to interact with a report the way you want via text boxes after the report has run. Since you can't select records on the fly, you'll have to create a report parameter of the same type as your primary keys (column A) and then set it to "Allow multiple values". You'll be able to select only the records you're looking for at run time by adding {table.colA} in {?Parameter1} into your Record Selection formula.
Drop {table.colA} and {table.ColB} into the Details section of the report. Now when you run it you can just add your 15 items as the parameter and you'll get what you're looking for.
Alternatively, if its important for the user to interact with the report after it's presented, you could accomplish this using (1) sections/grouping and Crystal's Hide option or (2) an on-demand subreport.
For example, you could group by column1, and then print a detail section for all the values. Mark the detail section Hide. Then, when you click on the value, that section will expand.
Or instead of marking it Hide, mark the group footer (for column1) New Page After Section. Then you can use the document tree along the left side to navigate to the page containing the values you're interested in seeing.
I want to create multiple groups in ireport, and the data should display in a group-wise manner.For Eg:
First the Group1 data should be printed completely, then,
Group1:
Module Data
After this i want to print the Group2 data completely
Group2:
Category data
I am using the Result Set datasource.
Can Someone help me in this?
Jasper reports will work exactly in this manner as long as your query results are ordered properly.
For example, let's say you are grouping by a field called "MY_GROUP" and it has values "GROUP A" and "GROUP B". In your report you will create a group for field "MY_GROUP". In your query, make sure you have MY_GROUP as the first field in your ORDER BY clause. You can also accomplish this in iReports by adding the "MY_GROUP" field as your the first field in the Sort Options section of the Report query.
Now that you have added your group and are ordering properly your results will come out like this:
Header - GROUP A
Detail - GROUP A
Footer - GROUP A
Header - GROUP B
Detail - GROUP B
Footer - GROUP B
Exactly as you wish. My guess is that you were not properly ordering your query results. This could result in having multiple groupings for GROUP A, GROUP B, etc. all interspersed.
If groups in iReport don't keep all the data together, use subreports. When Jasper gets to a subreport, it runs the whole subreport and puts the whole thing into the report. You could have something like:
Subreport 1 - Group 1
Group 1 first record
Group 1 second record
Group 1 third record
...
Group 1 last record
Subreport 2 - Group 2
Group 2 first record
Group 2 second record
Group 2 third record
...
Group 2 third record
It's exactly as Tom said. Jasper Reports Groups do not order the data retrieved from the query, they just take it in the order it comes.
In order to display the information in a group-wise manner, you have to add an ORDER BY to the query so the rows the report receives are already ordered.
So there is an issue that happens when you use multiple group headers. The first header behaves like expected ordered by Column Value A only on unique values. The 2nd header using Column Value B will print on every row despite being non-unique values.
In theory you should be able to use ORDER BY:
ORDER BY ValueA, ValueB
to properly display the report assuming you are using sql, plsql, etc... However, in my case that did not happen, though for others it seems to work.
Use subreports to attach the minor differences via unique reports. You create a root report with empty details. Then you create Unique reports to serve as sub reprots. Finally, you use the subreport element to link the values into the root report. Though that is a good bit of work and may cause repeat code.
A hacky way I used was: A mixture of "Print When Expressions" with logical boolean expressions with 2 group headers and a column header.
Boolean Expressions:
$F{QUERY}.equals(Query1) && ($P{P_Typequery}.equalsIgnoreCase("QueryA") && $P{P_parameter} == null)
and
$F{QUERY}.equals(Query1) && ($P{P_Typequery}.equalsIgnoreCase("P_QueryA") && $P{P_parameter} != null)
with two group headers and a column header. The column header will not repeat for every row so you assign one of the booleans expressions to it's "print when" so it does not always print. The first group header will not repeat for every row and works. The 2nd group header is used for the times you DO want it to repeat for every unique value since it always prints for every row, and you use the other boolean on it's "print when". Hope it helps
Is it possible to have add a row to an SSRS 2008 Matrix that spans all of the matrix's columns?
This crude diagram shows roughly what I'm looking for:
The basic idea is that each line item is a person, and each column is a field in a form for that person. The fields themselves are dynamic (and implemented as column groups on the matrix). Additional column groups are included to append non-dynamic form fields, like the time the record was entered and who entered it. Under each person's record is a comments field, which should span all of the form fields above it.
At the moment I have the matrix embedded in another tablix, with the name and fields in the matrix and the comments in the parent tablix. This works for the data (each instance of the matrix ends up being one row), but the header repeats too often (once per person) because it's attached to the matrix. The only thought I have as to how to fix this is to create another matrix in the parent tablix with the same grouping and use it to display the headers... But this will require quite a lot of manual synchronization to keep the two matrices the same.
Edit: The key problem here is making the second row span multiple column groups.
Here's what you can do:
Select the column grouping you want to add above and right click and select
Add Group... Parent Group...
Group the column by something that will not aggregate the data. You'll have to select a field from your dataset to group by so that it creates an overlapping column grouping.
Check the Add group header box
You should now see something similar to this:
Now you just need to move the Value1 field and it's header over under the new column to the right beyond the matrix dividers. Once that's done, simply delete the ungrouped column where you just copied Value1 from and be sure to select Delete columns only checkbox.
Your finished product should look like this:
It is possible - And the above answers are partial answers leaving out one key step: Merging the cells of the child row.
First, right click on your grouped row, then select Insert Row -> Inside Group - Below and you will get two rows with the cells aligning on the columns
Second, ctrl click all the cells in your new row (ie row without the data) then right click on one of the highlighted cells, and then select Merge Cells.
Now you have the table you like. To add a value to the new row: first right click your new (multi column) cell,select Create Placeholder, and then add the dataset item you desire to the placeholder.
[Edit]
After several attempts, I'm going to say this isn't possible in SSRS. The best I could come up with is a group footer that spans columns 1,2, and 3, but not the User column.
[Original Response]
I recently did something similar to this.
First, what tool are you using to create SSRS reports? (I used SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio)
You'll want to create a row group (grouped on Person)
Append a row to your table in "Design" view (Right click, "Insert Row --> Inside Group - Below").
Add an expression to the row that pulls the value for your "Comment" column (=Fields!Comment.Value).
Let me know if that helps...
Try adding in you column group "header" with a grouping expression of (1=1). Then a detail field will need to be defined. If you define the other group with correct data then the "header" will stretch across all details columns. You may need to merger depending on other options.
The easiest way to do this is to create a Tablix with only one column, and your row grouping.
Then, you create two rows inside this group.
In the first row inside the group, you insert a Matrix, wich you can then subgroup as you prefer.
I just had a similar problem, and this was my solution.
I banged my head against the wall for a lot of time, until i realized the solution to my problem wasn't "making a cell span multiple column groups", but "making a cell split into multiple column groups".
You can accomplish the goal by using a subreport for each person. The subreport will receive the employee id and create the hierarchy for you. Make sure your subreport column widths match the widths of the parent report.
Ok, this might be a weird request, but is it possible to essentially flatten my dataset inside a crystal report?
I have a datatable in C# that was created with a join, so when it hits the report its 2 records. Most of the columns have identical data, with the last few displaying a different address.
Instead of printing the detail section multiple times with mostly similar data, I need to display 1 'record' with the common data printed once, and each records address arranged next it. As in, all the common fields displayed in one area, and then next to that the address fields from the record where 'AddressType = 1', then next to that the address fields where 'AddressType = 2'
Is this a subreport thing? Because even with subreports I can't get it to only print 1 detail section with the data from just the first record.
Is this even possible with crystal? For long drawn out reasons, I can't flatten the data before it gets to the report.
Ok, someone here in the office showed me the way, so I'll put this out there.
Given data with cols A,B,C all common and D,E different across multiple rows, this is how I 'flattened' the dataset in crystal:
Create a group based on col A, and put A,B,C inside that group header - get rid of the details section entirely
Create a subreport in the group header for each row of data, in my case 2 subreports
Inside each subreport, put fields D,E. Important: There are NO links for these subreports!
For each subreport go into the Select Expert and create a condition that shows only 1 particular row of data. This conditional will have the same field for each subreport, but different values. In my case it was AddressType='A', and AddressType='B'
This will produce 1 report, with A,B,C listed once, and D,E listed once for each subreport(once for each row of data)
This was confusing, time consuming, and I hate crystal reports now more than ever.
It would be pretty ugly, but you could add a group for each common field in Group Expert and then display the data for the common fields in the last group header. So if your common fields are field1 through field5, you would create five groups and put all five fields in the group header of field5. Then you would put the unique address fields (call them field field6 through field8) in the details section.
Now the trick is getting everything to line up correctly. You can set "underlay following sections" on the group header for field5; this will cause field1 through field5 to "fall down" into the details section. You just need to make sure that field6 through field8 are all to the right of field1 through field5 so the text does not overlap.
Now, if you want the two address records to print horizontally, I think you will need a subreport with multiple columns for that. But the same principle applies -- just make sure the subreport is to the right of field1 through field5 so the data doesn't overlap.
Have you tried the suppress if duplicated option on each non-address field?
Otherwise, you could group by the common id, put the common fields in that header, and then display the multiple addresses in the details section.
Or, you could remove the addresses from the datasource and use a subreport to fetch this data for each record. This would bypass the join and be the slowest option performance wise, due to having to select the addresses for each record.
Ok, firstly let's see if I understand this right :
You want a report that would be in the format
MainDetails Address(type1)
MainDetails Address(type2)
to instead be in the format
MainDetails Address(type1) Address(type2)
?
Assuming there are only two address types, you can do the following :
1) Group by Main details (whatever the unique entry is
2) Put the address details in the group header next to them, on the right
3) Also put the address details in the details section, but positioned as if they were in the Address(type2) column positions, so it looks like :
GH MainDetails Address
D.......................................Address
4) Next, add a sort to the report on the AddressType field, so that AddressType=1 shows first.
5) Add a conditional suppression formula to the Details section saying {AddressType=1}
6) Using the Section Expert, in the Group Header tick the 'underlay following sections' box
This should work as long as the number of addresses is either 1 or 2.