Stopping duplicate entries

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Post Author: snowmansmartie
CA Forum: General
Hi Guys,
Ok I'm going to try my best to explain my situation.  I have written a report that links to a MySQL database which stores information about sales, in other words an invoicing/POS system.
I have written all the reports I need but I am struggling with the banking report, which is a subreport of the cashing up report.  The cashing up report is run by entering any date during a particular week and the report will work out the start date and the end date and pull from the database all the information for that week, all works fine.
The banking however is a different kettle of fish as banking can be done at any time, so I read the database for that week and return all of the transactions this gives me as part of the results a banking reference number, which links to a table storing the date the banking was done, who by and the total amount banked.
So if I did the banking today for last week, the banking table would contain todays date, the total amount I banked and my name (well internal reference ID to the users table).  So when I run the report for last week I need to see the banking for that week, which was actually done today.
I can get this working but, I might bank just 2 items and those 2 items have the same reference number in the banking table, so what I get returned is the banking date (today), the total amount banked and my name, but because I have banked 2 items, this data is repeated twice, I need to distinct the result so I only get the banked date (today), the total amount banked and my name all shown once.
My next problem is that I have also been asked to create the banking part of the report as a drill-down, so that when a user clicks on the banking information they can see the individual transactions that were banked.
Phew!!!!!! that was hard work.
I hope this makes sense, and someone out there can help me out.
Much appreciated.

Answer 1

Post Author: snowmansmartie
CA Forum: General
Ok, to make things a bit easier, I know what I need to do and how to do it, the problem is now that CR wont do what I think it should do!!!!!
I have in the main report 2 formulas Date and EndDate 1 to work out the start date and the 2nd to work out the end date.  This basically means a user can select any date from a particular week and the 2 formulas will work out where it should start and end, simple!
In my banking subreport I have 2 parameters StartDate and EndDate which are linked to a command SQL statement in my database expert, all I need to do is pass the results from the formulas to the parameters in the subreport, however when I try and create the link the parameters do not appear in the paramters list.
Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong and how to fix it, I really need this working fast as my boss is getting quite agitated that it's not working yet.
Thanks
James