Selecting records based on formula fields

Post Author: Mike Kennedy
CA Forum: Formula
I have created a field (called "Shortage") that is the result of subtracting two running totals and have inserted all three fields into the group footer. I only want to select those records that have a negative value as a result, but the field is not shown in the Select Expert. None of my formula fields show up in the Select Expert for some reason (normally they do). Does anyone know why and how can I select these records only? Thanks.

Post Author: SKodidine
CA Forum: Formula
Running Totals are only available once the records are being read and processed. You are calculating the difference between two Running Totals and then want to use that to select records? I don't think that is possible. One way of accomplishing the display of groups which have a negative value is to use sum functions instead of the running totals and then in group selection criteria, display only those groups which have a negative value as a result of subtracting the two sums.

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Select records based on formula field

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Hi Steve,
You cannot sort on a formula field that uses printime functions or executes in the 'whileprintingrecords' phase - example would be running totals or formulae based on shared variables from the subreport.
What you can however do is, suppress records where the formula returns zero.
To do this, go to the Section Expert > Select the section you wish to suppress > Click the formula button beside 'Suppress' and use this code"
{@Formula_name} = 0
-Abhilash

Select records based on 1 field have either of 2 values

Good afternoon,
II have 2 tables, Account and Order, it's a one to many where 1 account can have many orders. I'm trying to pull the records where the account has orders that have a status of Completed or Quoted. I know I'm not explaining well so hopefully the example below will help.
Account A has 3 orders, all of them are completed.
Account B has 5 orders, 2 of them are completed, and 3 of them are quoted.
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hi Jeanette,
for this you may either have to write a report with a Command based object with a subselect and a WHERE IN clause.
there's an easier way using a Group Selection formula though...the disadvantage of this method is that this doesn't filter those records out at the database which could be a problem if you're dealing with 100's of thousands of records. if that's the case, then use the method mentioned at the top.
For a Group Selection method try the following:
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if = 'Completed' then 1
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cheers,
jamie

Selecting records based on different fields

Post Author: timg
CA Forum: General
I have three groups which I study quite often, the blues (as identified in field 1with codes), the reds (identified in field 2 with codes), and the greens (identified in field 3 with certain codes).
I want to be able to run one report which, through a parameter field, I can select the group (red, green, or blue) for which I can select records from the database and analyze. Stated another way, if I select "Blue" in the parameter field, how can I get CR to pull certain records in the correct field with the correct codes.

Post Author: yangster
CA Forum: General
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Hi,
I have a table with a date_added field and I want to select records based on the monthly anniversary date of this field.
eg. ID, Date_added
1, 10-DEC-2012
2, 11-NOV-2012
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thanks

I didn't look into leap year, but this should give you a starting point:
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from t
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                then case
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                         then 1
                     end
            end
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SQL> variable target_date varchar2(8)
SQL> exec :target_date := '01102013';
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
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4             select 3,to_date('10-MAR-2012','dd-mon-yyyy') from dual union all
5             select 4,to_date('28-FEB-2012','dd-mon-yyyy') from dual union all
6             select 5,to_date('30-DEC-2012','dd-mon-yyyy') from dual
7            )
8 select *
9    from t
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11                when to_date(:target_date,'mmddyyyy')
12                  then case
13                         when to_char(date_added,'dd') >= to_char(to_date(:target_date,'mmddyyyy'),'dd')
14                           then 1
15                       end
16                else case
17                         when to_char(date_added,'dd') = to_char(to_date(:target_date,'mmddyyyy'),'dd')
18                           then 1
19                       end
20              end
21 /
        ID DATE_ADDE
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         3 10-MAR-12
SQL> And target date is 2/28/2013:
SQL> exec :target_date := '02282013';
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
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3             select 2,to_date('11-NOV-2012','dd-mon-yyyy') from dual union all
4             select 3,to_date('10-MAR-2012','dd-mon-yyyy') from dual union all
5             select 4,to_date('28-FEB-2012','dd-mon-yyyy') from dual union all
6             select 5,to_date('30-DEC-2012','dd-mon-yyyy') from dual
7            )
8 select *
9    from t
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11                when to_date(:target_date,'mmddyyyy')
12                  then case
13                         when to_char(date_added,'dd') >= to_char(to_date(:target_date,'mmddyyyy'),'dd')
14                           then 1
15                       end
16                else case
17                         when to_char(date_added,'dd') = to_char(to_date(:target_date,'mmddyyyy'),'dd')
18                           then 1
19                       end
20              end
21 /
        ID DATE_ADDE
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         5 30-DEC-12
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Dear SQL gurus,
I have a table T1:
Name Null? Type
ID NOT NULL NUMBER(5)
MOMENT NOT NULL DATE [DD.MM.YYYY HH24:MI]
MEASUREMENT NOT NULL NUMBER(8,3)
Example (ID, MOMENT, MEASUREMENT)
-- START OF EXAMPLE --
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9380 18.11.2000 04:30 17.3
9380 18.11.2000 05:45 16.8
9380 18.11.2000 06:15 16.8
9380 18.11.2000 07:00 16.2
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9380 18.11.2000 09:30 15.4
9380 18.11.2000 10:00 15.4
9380 18.11.2000 11:15 15.4
9380 18.11.2000 11:45 15.4
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9380 18.11.2000 13:00 15.4
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--- END OF EXAMPLE --
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(if the time gap in MOMENT field is too big, lets say > 5h then choose the average between the value before 6AM (ex. 4:15AM) and the value after the 6AM (ex. 9:45AM))
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Maybe cursor magic??? Thanks a lot for your help.
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About condition two, would the following select be of use to you? Picking the first record could be achived by rownum, analytic function, etc.
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              FROM dual
             UNION
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              FROM dual
             UNION
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              FROM dual
             UNION
            SELECT 9380 id, TO_DATE('18.11.2000 06:15', 'dd.mm.yyyy hh24:mi') moment, 16.8 measurement
              FROM dual
SELECT id, moment, measurement, diff
FROM (SELECT id, moment, measurement,
               moment - TO_DATE(TO_CHAR(moment, 'dd.mm.yyyy ') || '06:00', 'dd.mm.yyyy hh24:mi') diff
          FROM t1
ORDER BY abs(diff) asc, SIGN(diff) desc;
C.

How to select records based on Max/Min on different columns and group by

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a b c d e
1 1 1 2 1
1 1 1 6 4
1 1 1 6 3
when i group by a,b i am expecting the record 1 6 3
Please help me with this.. Thanks in advance....

Hi,
Welcome to the forum!
962163 wrote:
I have a table with 5 columns(a,b,c,d,e), i need to select records based on MAX(c),Max(D) and Min(e) group by a,b. i am trying using : select max(c),max(d),min(e) from table group by a,b. this is not working. its giving me 1 6 1
a b c d e
1 1 1 2 1
1 1 1 6 4
1 1 1 6 3
when i group by a,b i am expecting the record 1 6 3It looks to me like "1 6 1" is the correct answer. You're asking for the lowest value of e, and 1 is lower than 3.
Maybe you don't want MIN (e). Explain why you want 3 (that is, how you decided that 3 is the correct value for the last column) and someone will help you code it.
Edited by: Frank Kulash on Sep 28, 2012 6:17 PM
Whenever you have a problem, you should psot CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements for your sample data. That way, the people who want to help you can re-create the problem and test their ideas. It often helps to clarify the problem, too. since this is your first message, I'll do it for you:
CREATE TABLE     table_x
(       a     NUMBER
,     b     NUMBER
,     c     NUMBER
,     d     NUMBER
,     e     NUMBER
INSERT INTO table_x (a, b, c, d, e) VALUES (1, 1, 1, 2, 1);
INSERT INTO table_x (a, b, c, d, e) VALUES (1, 1, 1, 6, 4);
INSERT INTO table_x (a, b, c, d, e) VALUES (1, 1, 1, 6, 3);
COMMIT;

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eg:
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1 def 20
2 ghi 10
2 jkl 20
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3 pqr 10
4 rst 10
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5 vwx 10
6 xyz 10
6 hij 10
7 lmn 10
so on... (till some count)
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1 def 20
2 ghi 10
2 jkl 20
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4 rst 10
4 tuv 10
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9 .. ..
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;If you'd care to post CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements for your sample data, then I could test it.
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Post Author: Josh@RTA
CA Forum: Formula
I'm writing reports for a company that stores all of their dates as 8 digit numerical fields rather than a date or datetime datatype. I want to convert this field to a date type, then compare it to a parameter that stores user input as a date type.
However, due to the way that Crystal does it's passes over the data, I can't use a selection formula based off of another formula. So I'm wondering , has anyone ever used a selection formula that references another formula and how have you been able to do it? Maybe use group selection instead of record selection? Just not sure.
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Post Author: SKodidine
CA Forum: Formula
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Excuse the basic request.
I want to select all records from one table depending on the value in 2 specific fields. Each of these fields has a single value in it.
What I have written is as below
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and    nm_mailshot = 'Y'
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I want to do a select on a table and only get those records that
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I want to do this within SQL, not a procedure.
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FO_ID NUMBER(10),
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886 550 6 256 13
886 550 6 410 10
886 550 12 190 10
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886 550 27 91 22
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886 550 6 410 10
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Hi Timothy!
Try a nested query as:
Greetings Peter
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ta_test
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3> ta_test.ORDER_LEAD_TIME
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5> from
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max_colt
7> from ta_test
8> group by SUPPLIER_ID
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10> ) subquery_01,
11> ta_test
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13> where subquery_01.SUPPLIER_ID = ta_test.SUPPLIER_ID
14> and
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FO_ID CC_ID SUPPLIER_I CUM_ORDER_ ORDER_LEAD
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886 550 12 190 10
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Can a subreport select records based on values in the main report record?

Post Author: calvin
CA Forum: General
Perhaps my understanding of a subreport is incorrect as this is the first time I've used one, but it seems to me that the subreport should be able to use the values from the main report record in its (the subreport's) operations-but my subreport doesn't seem to be working that way.In my main report, I select a set of records from a 'request' table. I have a subreport in the detail section so the subreport is processed for each of the request records. That works, but I'm simply getting the same data reported multiple times. It's as if the subreport only uses the last request record rather than the current one. Stating it this way I can see that the problem might be evaluation time-it's processing the request records first, then processing the subreport, and only then printing everything. If this is correct then putting WhilePrintingRecords on the subreport should work-but the only way I know of to do that is in a formula. Can I call the subreport from a formula? Or am I totally off-track?Thanks.

Post Author: foghat
CA Forum: General
Have you established a link(s) between your main report and subreport?When viewing the main report, click edit --> subreport links and link the 2 based on whatever values from the main report you want.

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