I have created a cross tab however if I have a firstname field it merges the rows together if there are two names which are the same. How do you get it to display the names in the each row. In the example below Sarah is not displayed twice as the cells are merged together.
Firstname Lastname
Judy Collins
Sarah Dane
Smith
Joe Dine
Mary Lane
It sounds like you grouped your crosstab on the first name only. I would recommend:
Make a new Formula (Call it "FullName")
In the formula, combine the first name and last name, e.g. something like {First Name}&{Last Name}
Edit your crosstab to group by the FullName formula instead.
Does this help?
EDIT
Based on your comment, I don't think your comment is with Crystal. You need a "unique ID" of some sort, a distinct number for each person. My original suggestion was trying to use the user's full name as a unique ID, but that won't work if your dataset is big enough to include multiple people with the same name. Does your dataset have any kind of unique ID? What is this crosstab trying to display? There might be a better way.
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im building a report that has multiple tablix in it and i am grouping each one by name. i want to display each table, grouped by the name so that all of the tables for a particular name are on the same page. for example on the first page of the report i should have something like:
name
address
city
bob
123 main st
los angeles
name
hobbies
age
bob
fishing
44
name
net worth
salary
bob
$2,400,000
$78,000
and then the second page of the report should have something like:
name
hobbies
age
felicia
54 gordon ct
atlanta
name
hobbies
age
felicia
yoga
33
name
net worth
salary
felicia
$750,000
$224,000
where the data for each of these tables comes from either one large query or multiple queries(I've tried it both ways). I have tried multiple approaches to solve this but the one that got me the closest was creating 3 separate subreports (each grouped by name and with page breaks) and putting them all in a main report. When i do this the main report does not respect the page breaks in the subreports and instead puts all of the data for each subreport in a clump like this:
name
address
city
bob
123 main st
los angeles
felicia
54 gordon ct
atlanta
I have also tried creating 3 separate tablixes and putting them one after another with page breaks but the tables dont show up on the same page, so i end up with everything on separate pages
I've tried tinkering with group settings and also tried to use rectangles but get the same output. Can this be done in SSRS?
There are a few ways to do this but my preference would be using a single sub report.
Create a report that takes 'name' as a parameter (e.g. pName). Build the report as normal so it handles just the data that relates to the name parameter, so make sure your dataset query only returns data for the 'pName' provided. Include all three tablixes and whatever else you want.
Test the report and then..
Create another report with a dataset that contains just a distinct list of the names you want to report on.
Add a tablix (table of list) to the report and set it's dataset to be the dataset containing the list of distinct names. This will generate one row per name. Inside the first textbox in the tablix, you need to insert a subreport. Go to the subreport properties, select the report you created at the start of this. In the subreport's parameters section set the pName parameter to the name field of the dataset.
Finally, in the rowgroups panel, go to the rowgroup properties (there will probably only a be a details row group- that's OK) and then set the pagebreak property to 'between each instance'
That should do it.
I have Table Structure Like
I am Using Visual Studio 2013 and Crystal Report 13.0.12
You could use a Cross Tab for this, but you'll get more freedom by not using one:
In your report, group by Customer Name, then by TestName. Suppress all 5 of these sections except for the Group Footer of Customer Name. Here, place Customer Name, Result, and a new formula named Sugar. And inside sugar put this code:
PREVIOUS({Result})
Assuming there's no other TestNames besides Protein and Sugar, and assuming every Customer has one value for each, you should get the desired results in the footer. Let me know if that's the case and I can update the answer to accommodate.
I'm trying to display multiple values for one drive by adding a column for each additional record assigned to a drive. For example, a drive ID is unique but can have multiple promotional incentives assigned to it.
For example, if we go to a university on 1/23/2015, that will a unique event or record in the DriveMaster table, but if we are giving away T-Shirts and Pizza, those two records will be assigned to the drive in the EquipmentDetail table.
In SSRS, I'm trying to create a sub-report that will display the promotional items on one line instead of adding additional lines for each promotional item. See screenshot below.
What I'd like to have happen is have the each drive only account for 1 row, and each promotional item listed in a new column to the right. See mockup in Excel.
Is there a way to handle this? I know there is in Crytal Reports, but I can't figure this out in SSRS. I've tried using a Matrix, but I can't see to get the columns to grow if there are multiple incentives.
I added a column group on the Description field, and it looks like that it is close, but that the grouping will create blank spaces (cells) in it.
Thanks,
You have to set a Column Group for your promotional item in your Matrix.
Hope that helps.
Edit:
It looks like there are some areas that contain no data (because of your groupings)
We can do something like the following:
In your query you can use the 'over'
Select DriveID, PromotionItem, ... ,
ROW_NUMBER() Over(Partition by Select DriveID, PromotionItem, ... Order by PromotionItem)
AS ColumnGroupNumber
Then in the Promotion Item group that you have change the field it groups on to the ColumnGroupNumber (or whatever you are going to call it). Just don't change the field in the detail row, or you will not see the details.
I have used this solution before. I found it here.
I have a report where I list peoples addresses and some extra information.
At the footer of the report I have a sub report with just the names of people sorted by first name.
I would like to put an A before all the people with names that start with A and a B before people that has names that start with a B and so on. Is there a function built in for this?
Something like this:
A
Adam
Anton
B
Bob
Bert
Your explanation and your example are different, below solution will give output of your example.
Create a formula to extract first character.
#firstcharacter //formula name
Assuming field name as field1.
field1 [1]
Now in your subreport group by this formula and place field1 in details.
If this is not you are looking for let me know.
I have a report which displays information by group; I'd like to not show any group that doesn't have at least two items in it. Is there an easy way to do this?
Example:
Bob
3/1
4/3
Joe
3/2
3/7
3/9
Mark
5/9
James
John
8/17
9/2
Grouped on name, should not show Mark or James.
If your report is simplistic enough, you can get away with just suppressing the Group Header, Group Footer, and Details sections by using a summary function like count({table.somedate},{table.dudesname}) < 2. Note that the second parameter to a summary function has to be a field being used to group on.
Your mileage may vary with doing it this way. If you are displaying calculated summaries in the report footer, for example, it won't make sense to just suppress these groups as their data will still affect any report-level summary. The other problem you might run into is needing to use a distinct count on some field instead of just a count, depending on your table joins.
You could create a group-selection formula (Report | Selection Formula | Group...):
Count({table.field_to_count}, {table.grouped_field}) < 2