PL/SQL Block for Data Formatting

Question

I have created a Report that will pull all times that a person clocks in and clocks out. It works great but now accounting wants me to do some "conditional formatting" that can't be done by Report's built in conditional formatting capabilities. I talked to tech support yesterday and they suggested a PL/SQL block to format my times to do what accounting needs. Here is the skinny: All times in the database are done in 100ths of an hour. I need to the times up or down to the next quarter hour depending on when they clocked in. If they clocked in one minute late, it rounds down the the previous quarter hour and anything later and it rounds up. Can someone help me? Thanks, Jeremy

Answer 1

In the data model, enter your query and create the groups you need.
Let's say you have the number column my_time in a group named g_times.
Then create a formula column in the group g_times and look at its
properties. Change the name to cf_time.
Click on the property PL/SQL-Formula, and in the pl/sql editor you can
write something like
function CF_TIMEFormula return Number is
begin
  return trunc((:my_time + 0.23) * 4) / 4;
end;As you see, you can access query columns by using the colon.
Afterwards, you can display :cf_time in your Layout model.