Report for a date range

Question

Hi,
My end user requires me to develop a report that will accept the following parameters:
Customer Code : ABC
From Period : 01-Jan-2005
To Period : 31-Dec-2010
Output must be as follows :
Customer Jan-05 Feb-05 Mar-05 Apr-05 May-05 ......................................Dec-10 Total Order
Code
ABC 10 15 5 20 10 ...................................... 15 X value
I have told my end user that it is not possible to create an Oracle report that will give data for any period range that the user specifies. First the number of columns for the date range must be fixed like say at a time only data for 12 months will be displayed in the report. Then they can run the report for any year and the parameter has to be
Customer Code : ABC
Year :2005
The output will be :
Customer Jan-05 Feb-05 Mar-05 Apr-05 May-05 ......................................Dec-05 Total Order
Code
ABC 10 15 5 20 10 ...................................... 15 X value
Am I right or wrong ? Please advise. This is very urgent.

Answer 1

I don't see why this should not be possible.
Remember that you can have repeating frames in every direction (ie. right and down) and can combine these.
What I would do is look for (or create) a type of calender-table where I could select the date values from (ie. JAN 05) qualified by the from- and to-Parameters (aka query1),
then have a second, dependent query which uses the date from the calender (aka query2).
Then stack a down repeating frame for query2 into the right repeating frame for query1 and you should be almost there... Use the date from query1 as heading...
Cheers,
Jens Rettig