Help with Formula/Placeholder columns for group totals

Question

I have select that is broken into 2 groups (a COMPANY group and a DETAIL group within company). I need to determine the COMPANY group totals based on values in a column in the DETAIL group. I.E. the column is a transaction description and can have up to 15 different values and it did not appear that a summary column would work for what I need. I have currently set up 15 formula columns in the DETAIL group and check the value of the REASON to accumulate totals and return the total to a PLACEHOLDER column (which is numeric and defined in the COMPANY group).
I then report the Placeholder columns at break of COMPANY. This all works fine if I run only one company. If I run with multiple companies the Placeholder columns are used as a running total.
My question is how do I reset the PLACEHOLDER columns at company break if at all, or is there a simpler way to accomplish what I need.
Any and all assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Tom Vereecke

Answer 1

If you are using one placeholder column in different formula columns just ignore the following solution. It will not work in that case. I will post it here if i find out any way to initialize placeholder columns at different groups or anyother way to solve this issue.
I think if you remove placeholder columns and create summary columns at Company Level, that will work. And formula columns will be changed as follows:
Formula Column:
active_total number(10) := 0;
begin
if :status_1 = 'ACTIVE' then
active_total := active_total + 1;
end if;
if :status_2 = 'ACTIVE' then
active_total := active_total + 1;
end if;
if :status_3 = 'ACTIVE' then
active_total := active_total + 1;
end if;
return active_total;
end;
And in summary columns source will be formula columns. And reset the summary columns at Company.
Hope this helps.
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