How to create Cross Tab using Desktop

Question

Hi Everyone,
We use Sundard Banner (Universities) with Discoverer.
I would like to create a Cross tab
| Final Grade
|_______________________________
Course Title|
|
|
Valid grade values are: HP - High Honors
H - Honors
P - Passed
Suppose we had 3 students for class: Emergency Medicine
George Washington - HP
John Adams - HP
Abraham Lincoln - H
Would like query to look like this:
| HP, | H | P
|_________ |_____|_________________
Emergency Medicine| 2 | 1
|
|
Can this be done using Desktop, pls advise... thx, Sandra

Answer 1

Hi Rod,
Thx for your help.... I think I got it to work... Can I run the steps by you:
a) create table query with: course title, final grade, count of final grade
b) duplicated query as cross tab
c) dragged course title to left
d) noticed that Discoverer create a "field" - called data point for: count of final grade
e) delete all vertical fields and just left count of final grade
quests, please:
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1) I tried a few times to create a cross tab before posting quest, and this is the first time that I see that
Discoverer automatically created a field called datapoint for count of final grade. Do you have to follow
a crosstab workflow carefully to the data point field to be created?
2) what is definition of data point?
3) Please confirm: The data point is located in the white space of the cross tab?
4) Please confirm: When running the query, the values of final grades run across the top,
including "blank" column for null value
5) If (4), there is a column to tabulate rows with null values, why is the value 0, instead of an actual row count
6) Under the various column values, is the name of the datapoint field running as a second heading row
EH | H | HP
Final_Grade Count | Final_Grade Count | Final_Grade Count | Final_Grade Count
I will try to paste 3 screen shots below, using the "Plain text Help" box to the right of the screen
thx again for your help. sandra