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    Comparative Column Reporting

    Does anyone have a suggestion on how to create a comparative column report. What am seeking is a way to have a report display groups of information in columns, rather than beneath each other. For example, let's say I want to compare time clock punches for the past 4 weeks, with each week as a column, and each of the days as line items down the page. How do I go about setting up such a report? Any help would be appreciated.
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    RE: Comparative Column Reporting

    It could help if we knew how you are currently storing the data. Do you have something like

    employee_id date time_in time_out

    for each record?
    There can be only one.

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      RE: Comparative Column Reporting

      There is a time in and time out, as well as an elapsed time in minutes that is calculated from the difference between the two. I'm looking to display the elapsed time only for each day. I divide the elapsed time by 60 to display the time in hours with 2 decimal places.

      IE:

      Week 1 Week 2 Week 3
      Monday 3.25 8.55 10.62
      Tuesday 8.55 7.35 6.70
      ...

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        RE: Comparative Column Reporting

        I understand what you want. I don't know what you have to work with.

        How will you determine what constitutes "Week1"? How many weeks do you plan on keeping in history?

        I think you are going to need to create a new table with fields for employee id and dayofweek and some number of "week" fields, then populate the records each week with the data from your time clock table - likely posting it. Then you can report from the new table.
        There can be only one.

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          RE: Comparative Column Reporting

          Stan,

          How do you get various detail information to display side by side on a report, rather than one under the next? I guess a quick explanation of the logistics to accomplish would be helpful. I'd like to understand so I can apply to any data I might want to display this way in the future.
          Thanks for your prompt replies.

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            RE: Comparative Column Reporting

            Out of the box, the closest thing is "cross tabs". This allows you to create a table with a grouping by column and row. Your column could be an expression returning week number and the row could be an expression returning the day of the week.Then you could total on elapsed time.

            If you need more than the crosstab will give you then you will have to build a work table with enough fields for the most weeks you will have on a report multiplied by the days of the week.Then you will need a program to read the appts and populate the work table.

            You might be tempted to use subreports, but you will have to build some contrived sets and its my experience that Alpha doesn't like a lot of sureports in the same report.

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              RE: Comparative Column Reporting

              Thanks John,

              That explanantion is just what I wanted.

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                RE: Comparative Column Reporting

                One more possibility is to have a report with no detail section - just a summary or report footer section.
                make a bunch of calculated fields like this:

                Wk1Mon - if(weeknumb = 1 .and. daynumb = 1,amount,0)
                Wk2Tues

                Since you will be hardcoding a number of weeks (columns), all you really need to ask the user for is the start date -then a formula will determine which week and exclude data beyond the week display limit.

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