Create runing sequence in discoverer report(desktop)

Question

Hi All,
I want to show running sequence according to the record number
in discoverer report , How to do ?
Thank you
Mcka

Answer 1

Hi
A running sequence is a ranking, with RANK being one of the analytic functions. In order to create a ranking though you would need to tell Discoverer which item is to be ranked and what, if any restart points there are such as Page Items and Group Sorts.
A typical syntax would be:
RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY Customer ORDER BY Profit DESC )
This ranks profit in descending order, with the highest profit ranked 1, restarting the ranking on each change of Customer. The Customer would typically either by a Page Item or a Group Sorted item. If you have multiple Page Items and / or Group Sorted items I generally include them all in the PARTITION BY section of the function.
If the above function was in a workbook, you would want to have at least one additional dimensional data item such as Product, otherwise if you only had Customer and the calculation each customer would be ranked 1. To see a ranking of Customers you can remove the PARTITION BY clause like this:
RANK() OVER(ORDER BY Profit DESC )
Does this help?
Regards
Michael