Labels on Totals in 10g

Question

Hi,
We recently upgraded our test instance to 10g and have begun testing Discoverer reports using Discoverer Plus 10g (10.1.2.48.18). I have encountered a random issue with totals and subtotals in some workbooks.
An example would be my Sales by Salesrep report that shows the total tons and revenue for each customer with a total by salesrep. The total is correct, but the labels (e.g. Qty Subtotal and Rev Subtotal) appear in the detail portion of the data.
In 4i the report appears as follows:
Salesrep     Customer     Tons     Revenue
Joe Smith     ABC     1000.00     30000.00
     XYZ     100.00     2000.00
     Qty Subtotal: 1100.00     Rev Subtotal: 32000.00
However, in 10g the report appears like this:
Salesrep     Customer     Tons     Revenue
Joe Smith     ABC     Qty Subtotal: 1000.00     Rev Subtotal: 30000.00
     XYZ          100.00          2000.00
               1100.00          32000.00
The label isn’t always displayed on the first row. Sometimes it appears in the correct place and other times it appears on any random row.
Has anyone seen this before? Any ideas on how to correct it?
Thanks,
Angela

Answer 1

Hi Angela
Are you perhaps using a group sort that inserts additional lines between the group sorted values? If you do this and use subtotals in Discoverer 10g R2 then things get out of sync and Discoverer places the labels in the wrong place. It actually places them where they would have been if there were no additional lines.
Of course while Discoverer has many undocumented, desirable features this is not one of them. I'd actually call this an undocumented, undesirable feature (in other words - it's a bug).
Could this be what you are seeing?
Best wishes
Michael