Count number of orders entered

Question

Morning all,
I have created a report which divides (calculates) number of orders in x number of days. The report is working perfectly however now I would like to add a new feature in it. For example
Number of days            Number of Orders
1                                           3
2                                           2
3                                           4
4                                           5
5                                           6
The above example shows 3 orders took 1 number of days to be shipped out. Now what I would like to show is, 5 orders (in reality) should have taken 1 number of days. So in my report it will show it like this
Number of days            Number of Orders        Actual Number of Orders
1                                           3                                   5
2                                           2                                   4
3                                           4                                   7
4                                           5                                   2
5                                           6                                   1
The above example shows that in reality in one day 5 orders should have been shipped however only 3 went out.
So in other words I would like to show orders according to when they were entered and match them with the orders which were actually shipped accordingly.
I tried using formula like this
{date_entered};
distinctcount({order_num});
and I put it under the crosstab (Number of days row) however that shows the total number of orders instead of dividing those actual orders into number of days.
Anyone knows how to go about this?
Many thanks
Kind Regards
Jehanzeb

Answer 1

i have a couple of questions
is the number of days the date or the date difference between order date and completion date?
are there parameters to select the dates?
i believe this is what you want to do  is create a group by order date,  this will group all orders by the date
then use manual running totals
NUMBER OF ORDERS
1 reset on the order date header
1 calculate on the order (use the date diff formula you are using to get the value)
1 display on the order date footer- this will show you the total
ACTUAL ORDERS
for the calculation create a formula
if shipdate in {?parameter} then 1
use manual rt and this will display your values in the footer
then supress the header and footer.