Need to develop this report plezzzz help

Question

the requirement says
When a user submits an ID they have to choose who sold the product from the sold by field.This has to be chosen correctly otherwise there will be issues in sales and commission process.I need to develop a report to detect immediately when an Id is created which seems to be suspect.A suspect ID is one in which a salesperson was chosen on a customer who is not assigned to that sales person territory
for example: if danny is in Kathy territory is assigned to a customer in Texas which is Larry territory.
any suggestions will be helpful for me...
Edited by: user13001889 on Jun 6, 2011 4:43 PM
Edited by: user13001889 on Jun 6, 2011 4:44 PM

Answer 1

You ask for help, yet all you give is conceptual data. How do you expect help on writing the report?
Q) What defines "territory"? Is it a flag? Zip code? City?
Here is an answer based on a lot of assumptions:
I would have to assume that territory is defined by something like city, state, or zip code. If so, you could start with this:
When a customer submits an ID, along with who he/she selects as a salesperson -- I assume this is a drop down box to eliminate multiple entries of the same person due to variations in spelling -- thep person's address, city, state and zip are included as well. Let's assume that territory is defined by zip code. With the salesperson's name and the zip of the customer captured, you have the basis for comparison.
Based on the table of all your salespeople and their territory (zip code in my assumption), you can create a report that contains a concatenated field of salesperson||zip code. This will produce a report with all possible combinations of salesperson and territory. This report will be your sub-query.
Now you have your main query based on the customer activity table and you create a concatenated field of salesperson (chosen-by-customer)||zip code (of the customer). You will put a filter on this concatenated column and have it based on the results of another request (your sub-query) with the operand "not equal to/not in."
If any record in the main query does not match an entry from the sub-query, that record will display. It will be a report that contains customers who chose a sales person who doesn't have that territory.
That's how you build your report.