Matrix report with literals as rows

Question

Hi all,
I have been asked to write a report that lists userids as the columns and literals as the rows and the resulting counts for the cross product.
The data is all coming from a statistics table of transactions by userid and the associated counts for a given day. The resulting report is to replace a manually created Excel spreadsheet. Having never worked with matrix reports I'm having difficulty getting the query to behave as I want.
Here is a brief glimpse of what the user wants;
USER1 USER2 USER3 ...
Issued 1 2 4
Rejected 0 4 2
Salvaged 0 2 3
Thanks for any help. It looks like a matrix report would be perfect for this user request, so any and all suggestions would be appreciated.
Tom Vereecke

Answer 1

Assuming 'Issued', 'Rejected' and 'Salvaged' are the fixed and these are the only values showed as rows. And also part of the table. You have to use three unions, something like that
SELECT 'Issued' TranType, UserID, cnt
FROM Table
WHERE TransType = 1
UNION
SELECT 'Rejected', UserID, cnt
FROM Table
WHERE TransType = 2
UNION
SELECT 'Salvaged', UserID, cnt
FROM Table
WHERE TransType = 3
Run Report wizard and select Matrix report.
'TransType' will be Row Field.
'UserID' will be Column Field.
and 'Cnt' will be Cell Field.
Hope this helps.