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    #1

    How do you do this? Comments needed.

    I have been asked to create a report using 2 data files. One is Blackberry charges data file and the other is a Regular tel data file. These two files all have an account numbers and that will be my parent and child key.

    The problem is that not everyone has blackberry but the regular telephone file has every one. In other words a person can appear in both files but not appear in the blackberry file.

    I created a set file but I dont know how to set the link type to. Should it be one to many or one to one.

    I also want to create a report listing each charge in each account. I dont know how to group it for it to show the total of the blackberry charge per peron and the total of the regular phone charge per person in each account.

    Any comment will help.

    Thanks
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    #2
    Re: How do you do this? Comments needed.

    Seems like you need a parent table of all account numbers. then both the other tables would link to this parent one to many. You could then use sub reports, one for each of the child tables.

    The parent table could be created by copying all account numbers from the regular table to a new table.
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      Re: How do you do this? Comments needed.

      Thanks Stan you are the best. I will try that.

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        #4
        Re: How do you do this? Comments needed.

        Stan

        One more thing. Can I use an existing report layout as sub report? I am willing to change the field links and formula to the new set. I have a report on the blackberry data but do not want to recreate the report again in the sub report.

        Thanks

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          #5
          Re: How do you do this? Comments needed.

          Indirectly.

          Once you have the set constructed, select your existing reports, one at a time in the control panel and right click and choose Copy To..., specifying the set as the destination.

          Start building the report on the set. Place a subreport in the detail section. Double click on it to open it in design mode. From the Report menu choose Import, choose Report.

          You can then specify any report built on the set (really only using fields from one of the tables as you designed them originally).

          Thinking further it seems a bit strange that you are not able to select reports built on the child tables to import into the subreports. Subreports are, after all, designed to do just that.
          Last edited by Stan Mathews; 10-23-2009, 03:26 PM.
          There can be only one.

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            #6
            Re: How do you do this? Comments needed.

            Stan,

            How can I suppress the blanks in the database. The report is done but what is happening at the moment is that the system create blanks when the costctr is not in the other table vice versa, thus creating a huge printout. I will like to suppress the blanks on either side of the 2 tables.

            Thanks

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              #7
              Re: How do you do this? Comments needed.

              When properly constructed, sub reports do not lead to blank lines. That is one of their benefits.
              There can be only one.

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                #8
                Re: How do you do this? Comments needed.

                Stan

                Everything worked fine on the thread. I have another problem, I am trying to import a report into a subreport instead of recreating the report over again, the import hangs and nothing happens. The report and subreport will be based on the same table.

                I read somewhere here it cannot be done if its based on the same table, is that true.

                Thanks

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                  #9
                  Re: How do you do this? Comments needed.

                  I just tried that in V8 and it works ok on the AlphaSports vendor report.
                  There can be only one.

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                    #10
                    Re: How do you do this? Comments needed.

                    I have decided to recreate the report. No biggie.

                    But I also want to know this, say I have 2 subreports -- summary and detail, on the main report, I want the system to run the summary first and then the detail based on the account number which I set on the main report how would one do that? At the moment, its running the whole summary and then the whole detail right after. Your help will be greatly appreciated.

                    Thanks

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                      #11
                      Re: How do you do this? Comments needed.

                      The subreport can have its own selection of records. I've never tried it but you could change the detail subreport filter to something like

                      SCANNING("vendor") .and vendor_id = some_variable_set_elsewhere
                      There can be only one.

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