Report with indefinite number of columns

Hello,
I'm using VB.NET and Crystal Reports 2008 for my Windows application.
I've a new report to implement. It's a budgetting report in a table form, which shows the amount of money allocated to a certain projects over a range of years. In each row I show the different projects, in each column I show the budget of each project per year. Users can select the number of years to print (as a parameter), that means, the number of columns is dynamic.
My question is, how am I going to design this report? Will cross-tab help? My report will be in landscape format. The page width is enough for 8 columns, i.e. 8 years can be printed per table. If users choose to print more than 8 years, the "extra" columns should be printed on a new table underneath the one with the first 8 years, or on a new page if there's not enough space underneath.
Your help and suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you very much.
Agnes

use conditional supressions on the fields in the colums so based upon parameter selection it will display what is shown
insert a section below the other and then use the conditional supression based upon the selection of 8+
cross tabs have limitations and are hard to read.

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Report with undefined number of columns

Hello,
I'm using VB.NET and Crystal Reports 2008 for my Windows application.
I've a new report to implement. It's a budgetting report in a table form, which shows the amount of money allocated to a certain projects over a range of years. In each row I show the different projects, in each column I show the budget of each project per year. Users can select the number of years to print (as a parameter), that means, the number of columns is dynamic.
My question is, how am I going to design this report? Will cross-tab help? My report will be in landscape format. The page width is enough for 8 columns, i.e. 8 years can be printed per table. If users choose to print more than 8 years, the "extra" columns should be printed on a new table underneath the one with the first 8 years, or on a new page if there's not enough space underneath.
Your help and suggestions would be much appreciated. Thank you very much.
Agnes

Please note, this forum is dedicated to topics related to custom application development or deployment with Crystal Reports in .Net. This includes full versions of Crystal Reports as well as those versions of Crystal Reports bundled with Microsoft Visual Studio .Net.
As your query concerns design of an actual report, you should be posting your query to the Crystal Reports Design forum:
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Ludek
Moved to Report Design Forum
Edited by: Don Williams on Nov 24, 2008 7:23 AM

Alv report with varying number of columns

hi all,
I am new to abap. I am writing this to get a brief idea of what i wanted to do in system.
I have to do a report using alv. The format of the report looks like this.
acc no     acc. name     amt_sum_april   amt_sum_may   amt_sum_june. ............. total_months
the colum amt_sum_ depends on user input period(month interval).
if the user selects 4 to 6 = 3 columns ,if the user selects 4 to 10 = 7 columns
so on.......
Anyone have idea how to do it, because in the
initial structure or itab, the number of columns depends on the user input.. i am stucking here ...
pls help.
thanks and regards
jose

Hi friend,
It's very complicated to do that, I'm sure there's a way to do it but I really don't know it. Once I had a similar requirement and I did something else that solved my problem without making a fussy complicated code. I added a colum MONTH or PERIOD (depending on your requirement) and then I make a subtotal by that column. So you need:
acc no acc. name amt_sum_april amt_sum_may amt_sum_june. ............. total_months
Now you would have:
acc no acc. name    month     amount
In the SORT table, in the sorting condition by MONTH you specify SUBTOTAL = 'X'. So the output will be:
acc no acc. name    month     amount
123123        John      2            100.00
123124        Paul      2            200.00
Month 2                                300.00
123123        John      3            300.00
123124        Paul      3            400.00
123125        Jane      3            100.00
Month 3                                 800.00
123123        John      4            123.54
Month   4                                123.54
Total                                      1223.54
You can change the subtotal text for a more adequate one (if you want). Also if you only need the subtotals you can specify in the layout that only those lines are to be output.
I hope I've helped, I you have any question let me know!
Regards,
Pablo

PLSQL-generated SQL report with variable number of columns

I created an app to track college football bowl picks:
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=21723
The main report region includes columns for the various games as well as a column for each participant. In order not to hard code the number of participants, I used PLSQL to generate the SQL so that new columns could be added on the fly.
However, whenever I add a new user I get this result -
report error:
ORA-01403: no data found
If I copy and paste the PLSQL into a new report region and then delete the old one, however, all is well.
Is there something I can do to overcome this?
Thanks.
Bill

Roberto
 
Here are the tables:
 
BOWL_GAMES 
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NAME VARCHAR2(30) 
FAV VARCHAR2(20) 
DOG VARCHAR2(20) 
BDATE DATE 
LINE NUMBER(3,1) 
FAV_SCORE NUMBER(4,0) 
DOG_SCORE NUMBER(4,0) 
 
BOWL_USERS 
ID NUMBER 
USERNAME VARCHAR2(20) 
PW VARCHAR2(20) 
NAME VARCHAR2(20) 
EMAIL VARCHAR2(50) 
 
BOWL_PICKS 
ID NUMBER(5,0) 
USERID NUMBER(10,0) 
GAMEID NUMBER(10,0) 
PICK NUMBER(1,0) 
 
 
Below is my PLSQL. Feel free to try out the app. Thanks.
 
Bill 
declare 
p_sql varchar2(32767); 
cursor c1 is select * from bowl_users order by id; 
begin 
p_sql := q'! select to_char(b.bdate, 'Mon FMdd') "Date", b.name, '< a href="javascript$pickEm(''' || b.fav || ''')">' || b.fav || '</ a> -' || b.line || ' < a href="javascript$pickEm(''' || b.dog || ''')">' || b.dog || '</ a>' "Line" !'; 
for a1 in c1 loop 
p_sql := p_sql || q'! , bowl_strike(b.id, !' || a1.id || q'! , 0) || (select decode(p.pick, 0, substr(b.dog,1,4), 1, substr(b.fav,1,4), 'No pick') from bowl_picks p where p.userid = !' || a1.id || q'! and p.gameid = b.id) || bowl_strike(b.id, !' || a1.id || q'! , 1) "!' || upper(a1.name) || q'!" !'; 
end loop; 
p_sql := p_sql || q'! , bowl_score(b.id) "SCORE" from bowl_games b order by b.bdate !'; 
return replace(p_sql,'$',':'); 
end;
 
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Reports with more than 100 columns

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declare
s varchar2(32767) := null;
begin
s := null;
wwv_flow_api.create_report_columns (
p_id=> 200100535534034253 + wwv_flow_api.g_id_offset,
p_region_id=> 2003453533453 + wwv_flow_api.g_id_offset,
p_flow_id=> wwv_flow.g_flow_id,
p_query_column_id=> 157,
p_form_element_id=> null,
p_column_alias=> 'XYZ',
p_column_display_sequence=> 157,
p_column_heading=> 'XYZ 123',
p_column_alignment=>'LEFT',
p_disable_sort_column=>'Y',
p_sum_column=> 'N',
p_hidden_column=> 'N',
p_display_as=>'WITHOUT_MODIFICATION',
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Hi,
Its just a general thought and I realize you know your application and user community better I do, but do you think your users are going to be very happy when they are presented with a report with more than a hundred columns? Have you considered maybe presenting the data in some sort of rolled up form from which the user can then drill down to the data they are particularly interested in. Also, I'm sure your LAN administrator would be happy not to see 100+ column by x number row reports being regularly shipped across the network.
Also, 100+ column reports suggests tables with 100+ columns which are probably not designed in a very relationally compliant way. I find that good DB design usually results in applications that have to make less compromises, such as hacking export files in order to fool the API into making ridiculous, unsupported and unsupportable compromises.
Just a thought..................
Regards
Andre

FR Layout issue with large number of columns

Hi!
I'm developing a report in FR 11.1.1.3 with over 30 columns.
The issue is that when I run the report in web preview, the dropdown of dimension in page goes to the far right and disappears from the display.
If I reduce the number of the columns I don't have this problem.
I've already tried to maximize the workspace to the maximum without any result.
Can anyone help me to deal with reports with large numbers of columns?
Regards,
Luís
Edited by: luisguimaraes on 13-Mar-2012 06:48

IE8 could be the reason. According to the supported platform matrices (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bi-foundation/oracle-hyperion-epm-system-certific-2-128342.xls), check tab EPM System Basic Platform, row 70, in order IE8 to work, FR and Workspace should be patched.
FR Patch number: 9657652
Workspace Patch number: 9314073
Patches can be found on My Oracle Support. Just search for the patch number.
Cheers,
Mehmet

DB view with flexible number of columns?

In my Oracle 10 I have these tables
Customer table:
id      customer
1       John
2       Bob
Item table
id      item_name
1       itemA
2       itemB
3       itemC
4       itemD
Purchase table:
id      item_id date    customer_id
1       3       070202 2
2       6       070203 5
...I'd like to create a view like this:
        itemA   itemB   itemC   itemD   ...
John    3       4       0       0       ...
Bob     0       3       0       0       ...
...The view showed John purchased itemA 3 times, item B 4 times. Bob purchased itemB 3 times. This assume each customer only by one item at a time, which is a reasonable simplification of my situation.
Such a view (with variable number of columns) is needed not in our web application but also provide an understandable data source for non IT professional to use report software. If my approach of solving this problem is completely wrong, I'd also like to know what's the common practice. Thank you very much in advance!
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I have tried to ask the question in a way that greatly simplify current problem to make it easy for others to understand without having to explain a lot of background information and 'the situation'; it seems I over-simplified the issue to make it even not worth solving or a wrong question being asked. So here I explain the complete problem and look for advice again (be prepared, pretty long description following:). I am a purchased customer of Oracle 10 DB and I reasonably expect being considered as Oracle user looking for help rather than students trying to play smart with assigned data normalization course exercises.
We are working on a system that collects data from interview results. The questionnaires for the interviews are formatted with a coded question, followed by user's answer to the question, like the following:
     Question Code   Question content   Answer
     H001            ...                123
     H002            ...                45
     H003            ...                33
     H004            ...                66
     H005            ...                4,66
     ...             ...                ...The users answer question with a digit, for some special questions, e.g. H005, they are allowed to answer with a set of digits. There are thousands of interviews each year, the simplest solution to collect the interview answers is to use such a db table:
simple_db_table:
id   H001 H002 H003 H004 H005 H006 H007
1    123   45    33    66    4     82    9
...This solution have two problems:
1. It doesn't properly store answers to questions that requre a set of digits, like H005.
2. The number of questions and their codes change from one survey to another, but the table have fixed number of columns and column names.
And two benefit:
1. With such simple table, people who use report software that directly access oracle db can creat their reports on easy-to-understand data presentation;
2. calculation based on questionnaire data is simple, e.g. get the average of H007/H009 for questionnaires that have H002 > H003 * 600 would be:
SELECT SUM(H007) / SUM(H009) FROM simple_db_table WHERE H002 > H003 * 600;Next solution we have normalized tables:
questionnaire_entry_table:
id                 NUMBER
questionnaire_name CHARquestionnaire_definition_table:
id                 NUMBER
questionnaire_id   NUMBER
question_code      CHAR
question_content   VARHCARinterview_table:
id                 NUMBER
questionnaire_id   NUMBER
date               DATEquestionnaire data table: itv_data
id                 NUMBER
interview_id       NUMBER
question_code      CHAR
answer             NUMBERWith the new structure, it just turn the problems of simple_db_table to its benefit and simple_db_table's benefit become the problem:
1. Personnel who use report creation software feel too confused to make report based on such tables, because they do not understand the normalized modeling. In our case, effective training is difficult because there will be many geographically distributed people make reports based on this structure and they have lower IT knowledge than database administrators. These personnel can make reports based on simple_db_table.
2. calculation based on questionnaire data is very difficult.
To explain 2, let's take the same example, we still wish to get the average of H007/H009 for questionnaires that have H002 > H003 * 600, my method is:
setp 1: create a view with by using:
       CREATE VIEW v (id, H002, H003) AS
       SELECT a.itv_id, a.H002, b.H003
         FROM itv_data a, itv_data b
       WHERE a.interviewee_id=b.interviewee_id
         AND a.question_code='H002' AND b.question_code='H003';step 2: create a stored procedure to get the calculation result:
       CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE get_result (result OUT NUMBER) IS
         sh007 NUMBER := 0;
         sh009 NUMBER := 0;
       BEGIN
         SELECT SUM(H007) INTO sh007 FROM itv_data
           WHERE itv_id in (SELECT id FROM v WHERE H002 > H003 * 683);
         SELECT SUM(H009) INTO sh009 FROM itv_data
           WHERE itv_id in (SELECT id FROM v WHERE H002 > H003 * 683);
         idc := sh007/sh009;
       END get_idc;As you can see the calculation become much more complex and might involve overhead.
There might be better way to calculate the result that I don't know yet. We have some 100 different formulas to calculate different results, so it's important to get them right and efficiently.
The best solution seems to me is that to create such a view from itv_data and other tables so that to reflect the same structure of simple_db_table. So here comes the question I originally asked how is it possible to create a view with flexible number of columns. I made the very simple example in my original posted message wishing to get an idea of this is possible or the way to go.
I may be taking a completely wrong approach to attack the problem, e.g. perhaps there is a simpler way to get_result from itv_table and for report creation users I should use a metadata layer on top of the normalized table structure (e.g. by using Metadata Query Language from Pentaho BI). But anyway I'd like to get some insightful ideas from the forum. Again thanks for help in advance.

How to create a report with dynamic no of columns

Hi All,
we have a report with 6 columns.
and its been access by 10-20 people.
the user dont want to have a fix report with 6 columns rather they want to have a flexibility to select the columns from the report they want to see.
i.e. user one one time wasnt to see only one columns
another time he want to see only column 2 and 4 of the report.
its like there can be a multiple select option from where he can select the columns in the existing report and then see the same report with only that much column.
Please tell me how to implement it.

Abhip i thin you didnt get the problem.
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Currently when i logging to OBIEE and see that report
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How to create a table with varied number of columns?

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If the user input years 2000 and 2002, the table should have columns 2000, 2001, 2002. But if the user input 2000 and 2001, the table will only have columns 2000 and 2001.
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How can i export the data to excel which has 2 tables with same number of columns & column names?

Hi everyone, again landed up with a problem.
After trying a lot to do it myself, finally decided to post here..
I have created a form in form builder 6i, in which on clicking a button the data gets exported to excel sheet.
It is working fine with a single table. The problem now is that i am unable to do the same with 2 tables.
Because both the tables have same number of columns & column names.
Below are 2 tables with column names:
Table-1 (MONTHLY_PART_1)
Table-2 (MONTHLY_PART_2)
SL_NO
SL_NO
COMP
COMP
DUE_DATE
DUE_DATE
U-1
U-1
U-2
U-2
U-4
U-4
U-20
U-20
U-25
U-25
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Error 402 at line 103, column 4
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Should i paste the code? Should i post this query in 'SQL and PL/SQL' Forum?
Help me with this please.
Thank You.

You'll have to *alias* your columns, not prefix it with the table names:
$[CHE_TEST@asterix1_impl] r
1 declare
2    cursor cData is
3      with data as (
4        select 1 id, 'test1' val1, 'a' val2 from dual
5        union all
6        select 1 id, '1test' val1, 'b' val2 from dual
7        union all
8        select 2 id, 'test2' val1, 'a' val2 from dual
9        union all
10        select 2 id, '2test' val1, 'b' val2 from dual
11      )
12      select a.id, b.id, a.val1, b.val1, a.val2, b.val2
13      from data a, data b
14      where a.id = b.id
15      and a.val2 = 'a'
16      and b.val2 = 'b';
17 begin
18    for rData in cData loop
19      null;
20    end loop;
21* end;
for rData in cData loop
ERROR at line 18:
ORA-06550: line 18, column 3:
PLS-00402: alias required in SELECT list of cursor to avoid duplicate column names
ORA-06550: line 18, column 3:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored
$[CHE_TEST@asterix1_impl] r
1 declare
2    cursor cData is
3      with data as (
4        select 1 id, 'test1' val1, 'a' val2 from dual
5        union all
6        select 1 id, '1test' val1, 'b' val2 from dual
7        union all
8        select 2 id, 'test2' val1, 'a' val2 from dual
9        union all
10        select 2 id, '2test' val1, 'b' val2 from dual
11      )
12      select a.id a_id, b.id b_id, a.val1 a_val1, b.val1 b_val1, a.val2 a_val2, b.val2 b_val2
13      from data a, data b
14      where a.id = b.id
15      and a.val2 = 'a'
16      and b.val2 = 'b';
17 begin
18    for rData in cData loop
19      null;
20    end loop;
21* end;
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
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XML Pub Gurus,
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Hello experts,
my issue:
I need to print a table with varying number of columns. Depending on if all cells of a certain column are initial the
whole column should disappear. Hiding is not enough.
If this columns is in the middle of the table the following columns should move left to fill the gap.
my approach: (maybe there is an easier one)
There are 4 different possible situations. My approach was to create 4 different tables with different amount of
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In the form I'd like to print the appropriate table depending on the situations.
my problem:
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my question:
Is my approach ok? Or is there an easier one?
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Hi Heinz,
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then
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endif
Hope it would help.
Regards,
Vaibhav

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Go to Page Setup and check the 'No Printer' option. Also check the 'Dissociate Formatting Page Size and Printer Paper Size' option; this will enable the horizontal and vertical text boxes. Type in a higher horizontal value and you should be able to fit in all the colums on the report (You might have to play around with the value depending on the no. of cols you have).
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