Group Header/Footer Sum Issue

Question

Hey all,
I have an issue which I thought I had covered, but I need a more solid solution.
SO, I am making a query to do with AR Invoices by the row level, but I want to be able to sum at the header level to use the PaidToDate field so I know how much is left to pay on the document.
So it is just DocTotal - PaidToDate.
Problem is, I need to be able to see the items from the document.  So I have it right down to the row level using INV1.
So now when I group by the DocNum field everything looks fine, but when I go to see what is left I calculate using DocTotal - PaidToDate.
Problem is, because I'm at the row level it gives me the owing amount for each line like below.
DocNum    CardName  DocTotal   PaidToDate   LineNum     Qty    Price   Description   
1234          SAP             $100          $50                0              3       $25      Stick
1234          SAP             $100          $50                1              1       $25      Puck
So in this example you can see that SAP has an invoice # 1234 for $100 and they have paid $50 but because of the way it is organized the $50 is paid only on the OINV header level, but is linked to the rows, so it will SUM to $100 paid when it's only $50 paid on the document.
This isn't such a huge issue because I did an IF statement: IF {INV1.LineNum} = 0 THEN ({OINV.DocTotal} - {OINV.PaidToDate}) ELSE 0.
BUT, in this case it is a bit more complicated because I am using Enprise and I am pulling lines by project so the lines pulled from an invoice might be taken from the middle of a document.  I would be fine if the first line was always LineNum = 0, but some of the times it is not.
Is there a better programmatic way to handle this?  Rather than a clunky IF statement?
Thanks!
Mike

Answer 1

Hi Yogesh,<br /><br />
Thanks for your comments. You've raised several valid points, which I'll address below.<br /><br />
In the past 18 months, Enprise Job Costing has undergone fairly significant improvement and feature enhancement. It's fair to say that forward development and product improvement is where we've placed greatest resource emphasis. We're continuing to improve the product set and plan to introduce significant new features over the next 9 - 12 months. If you'd like to see a copy of our planned development road map, I'll be happy to share that with you.<br /><br />
The documentation for Enprise Job Costing, while currently somewhat out of date, is currently being rewritten. We will be releasing new chapters for the documentation as they become complete and expect to have the entire documentation suite completed within the next 2-3 months. <br /><br />
In the short term, your SAP implementation partner will be able to provide access to each new chapter as it becomes available, as we'll post them to our partner support website. <br /><br />
Longer term, we will be opening portions of our support site up for end user access, so that people with technical skill, like yourself, can self-help to a degree. We already have a plan to introduce a community/forum where interested people can ask questions and share ideas. Such a forum existed a few years back, through SAP's P2P network, but we found that it wasn't well utilised and I don't believe it is a current feature of the revised network.<br /><br />
Our new forum will be delivered through a new iteration of our partner support website. We've designed the new site map for this tool, which includes such new functionality. Actual development will begin shortly. We will also be introducing a customer (end-user) focused newsletter to supplement the one we distribute through the partner community. The customer focused version will have more in the way of 'tips n tricks' type content and will likely be very product/road map focused.<br /><br />
In the meantime, I encourage you to follow our various social media activities. We provide regular product update snippets through our LinkedIn profiles, through our Twitter accounts and through our Facebook page. In fact, I'd love it if you would begin using our Facebook page as a precursor to a customer oriented forum and encourage any and all communication.<br /><br />
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I'll call you shortly to discuss this topic in more detail.<br /><br />
Best regards,<br /><br />
Jason Langley<br />
General Manager<br />
Enprise Software<br /><br />