User report requirement, need advise

Hi,
I have a report requirement to get damage codes for equipment build month against no. of months in service.
                       damage codes                  equipment month(no. of equipments built)
                    (cy200601 to cy200603)     cy200601 cy200602 cy200603
                                   1                               1
                                   2                               2     `         2
                                   3                               3               1               1
i have damage codes, notification month in notifications cube and no. of equipments in equipment cube. these damage codes should calculate for number of months in service against equipment built month.
in my report i am filtering the report by equipment built month(cy200601 to cy200603) and notification month (cy200601 to cy200603)   then i will be getting the report as above.
user request is to get the damage codes by number of months in service like he want to filter by equipment built month and number of months in service(equipment built month- notification month)   i don't have a field no. of months in service.
with the current report what i am getting is for equipment built month 300601 i will be getting damage codes for 3 months in service, but for equipment bui;lt month 200602 i will be getting damage codes for only 2 month in service, and for equipment built month 200603 i will be getting damage codes foronly one month.
how can i acheive this. Is there any option to get this in the query level if not what are the options.
Thanks,
Naveen

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Four tables: Defendant, Engagement, Service, Event.
A defendant can have more than 1 engagement, but they have only one open engagement at a time.
For each engagement, they will have services and events.
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Insert into SERVICE (SERVICE_ID,ENG_ID,DESCRIPTION,DATE_STARTED,DATE_TERMINATED,ACTIVE) values (3,2,'Treatment',to_date('01/10/12','DD/MM/RR'),to_date('15/10/12','DD/MM/RR'),1);
Insert into SERVICE (SERVICE_ID,ENG_ID,DESCRIPTION,DATE_STARTED,DATE_TERMINATED,ACTIVE) values (4,3,'Housing',null,null,1);
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CREATE OR REPLACE FORCE VIEW "BASE_VW"
AS
SELECT Def.Def_Id,
    Def.First_Name,
    Def.Last_Name,
    Eng.Eng_Id,
    Eng.Court_Name,
    Eng.Date_Joined,
    Eng.Date_Terminated,
    Eng.Ethnicity,
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    Ser.Date_Terminated AS Service_Date_Terminated,
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ON Def.Def_Id = Eng.Def_Id
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ON Eng.Eng_Id = Ser.Eng_Id
LEFT OUTER JOIN Event Ev
ON Ev.Eng_Id = Eng.Eng_Id;****
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Report parameter: Start Date, End Date, Court_name
From chosen Court_name, list defendants who currently engage in the court.
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Section 1: Identifying Details: First Name, Last Name, Ethnicity, Date Joined Court
Section 2: All Services currently active that the defendant attend
Section 3: All Events that related to the service that the defendant attend
Section 4: All other events (don't have Related Service ID)
User must be able to download the whole report in spreadsheet or PDF format.
I did try to create a set of union selects (but the format is not that good, when no data return it display nothing, I would rather show some messages like "There is no associated events, rather than nothing")
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The developer who knows a lot about jasper report is too busy to help me.
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Where Def_Id =2
And Date_Joined Is Not Null
And ( Date_Terminated Is Null Or Date_Terminated > Sysdate)
And Rownum =1
Select '1.Defendant ID' as col1, 'First Name' as col2, 'Last Name' as col3, 'Court Name' as col4, 'Ethnicity' as col5, 'Date Joined' as col6, 'Date Terminated' as col7
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Union All
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From Base_Vw Inner Join Current_Engagement Ce On Base_Vw.Eng_Id = Ce.Eng_Id
Union All
select '2.Service ID', 'Service Description', 'Start Date', 'End Date', Null, Null, Null
from dual
Union All
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From Base_Vw Inner Join Current_Engagement Ce On Base_Vw.Eng_Id = Ce.Eng_Id
where service_active =1
Union All
Select '3.Event ID', 'Related Service ID', 'Start Date', 'End date', 'Notes', null, null
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Union All
Select distinct to_char(event_id), to_char(related_service_id), to_char(start_date), to_char(end_date), notes, null, null
from Base_Vw Inner Join Current_Engagement Ce On Base_Vw.Eng_Id = Ce.Eng_Id
Where Event_Active = 1
and related_service_id is not null
Union All
Select '4.Event ID', 'Start Date', 'End date', 'Notes', null, null, null
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2                              John                           Doe                            BBB                  Asian                01/10/12
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3                              Treatment                      01/10/12                       15/10/12
6                              Treatment                      16/10/12
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5                              2                              03/10/12
4.Event ID                     Start Date                     End date                       Notes
4                              02/10/12
8                              12/10/12
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     However, I struggle to find a way to apply this to more than 1 defendant and still keep the format.
Defendant 1
All details related to defendant 1
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All details relayed to defendant nIs it possible to display a report as above by using only SQL script ?
Thanks a lot in advance. I am willing to compensate financially to someone who can give me a solution.
Edited by: Ann586341. View base_vw SQL script is fixed.

Thanks a lot Jeneesh. (You are really a guru.)
It is nearly 98% what the requirements ask for.
I just have one more question.
If I add more information into the database, just one more defendant
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            decode(Base_Vw.Eng_Id,null,'No Data',to_char(service_start_date)),
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            decode(Base_Vw.Eng_Id,null,'No Data',null),
            decode(Base_Vw.Eng_Id,null,'No Data',null),
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      Union All
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             decode(Base_Vw.Eng_Id,null,'No Data',to_char(event_id)),
             decode(Base_Vw.Eng_Id,null,'No Data',to_char(related_service_id)),
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2                              John                           Doe                       BBB                  Asian                     01/10/12
2.Service ID                   Service Description            Start Date                End Date
3                              Treatment                      01/10/12                  15/10/12
6                              Treatment                      16/10/12
3.Event ID                     Related Service ID             Start Date                End date             Notes
5                              2                              03/10/12
4.Event ID                     Start Date                     End date                  Notes
4                              02/10/12
8                              12/10/12
1.Defendant ID                 First Name                     Last Name                 Court Name           Ethnicity                 Date Joined Date Terminated
1                              Joe                            Bloggs                    AAA                  European                  22/09/12
2.Service ID                   Service Description            Start Date                End Date
4                              Housing
3.Event ID                     Related Service ID             Start Date                End date             Notes
7                              4                              23/09/12
4.Event ID                     Start Date                     End date                  Notes
6                              22/09/12                       23/09/12
1.Defendant ID                 First Name                     Last Name                 Court Name           Ethnicity                 Date Joined Date Terminated
3                              Minnie                         Mouse                     BBB                  Latin America             05/10/12
2.Service ID                   Service Description            Start Date                End Date
3.Event ID                     Related Service ID             Start Date                End date             Notes
4.Event ID                     Start Date                     End date                  Notes
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2.Service ID                   Service Description            Start Date                End Date
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No Event Found
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what are the typical functions of a BI consultant to a finance department? i.e. why will a finance department find the need to bring in a BI consutant to advise them on how best to use BW in their environment?
iv. How does the above discussion pertain to CO. i.e. If your discussion above is strictly for FI, can you address i, ii, iii for CO?
Thanks and Happy Holiday.

Hi
From a reporting perpective, what does the finance department need from BI to say that BI is a worthwhile investiment?
Normally Financial reports needed for the customer will be P&L, Balance sheet, Cashflow statements and the AR, AP and also Controlling and the Turn over Ratios to know about the financial funding stage about their organization based on their functional requirements.
ii. Does BI provide any of the answers provided in i. (above) through its business content objects? If so, can you discuss how BI provides each of the solutions? (I will apprecaite a discussion for the "finance team" and not neccessarily for the IT team)
Better to talk to your FI CO team for this to understand better at ECC functional level to know what would be the best extractors that you can report on. BI content is already there for almost FI CO reports.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/2d/955a73da4d6d41a0a6128caf274ce8/frameset.htm
and everything mentioned clearly in that why , how , what.
iii. If all the requirements of a finance department are already available with a newly installed BI, then
what are the typical functions of a BI consultant to a finance department? i.e. why will a finance department find the need to bring in a BI consutant to advise them on how best to use BW in their environment?
Though the Finance team has every Extractor at ECC side its only BI consultant who has to work on Modeling , Extraction, Reporting Part for BEx Reports. You have to Map the Fields even though its BI Content some of the Customized objects like Routines, Formulas would be there for each and every project .
iv. How does the above discussion pertain to CO. i.e. If your discussion above is strictly for FI, can you address i, ii, iii for CO?
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/d6/563b2203ef11d4a7400060087a7a87/frameset.htm
Hope it helps

RE: (forte-users) Reporting tools/components for ForteApplications?

Hi Robert,
A good place to start when it comes to reporting is Forte Consulting. They
have developed a tool called ReportKit, which is ActiveX integration with
Seagate Software's Crystal Reports tool. Crystal is not really a three-tier
tool (although, your Forte Consultant can probably set it up to mimic a
three-tier tool), but it is a quick, easy way to get quality reports from
your existing Forte applications. If you're interested, give your Forte
Sales Rep (or, better still, your Forte Regional Consulting Director) a
call. They can discuss pricing and scheduling. I've done several
integration projects with Crystal, and I highly recommend ReportKit for
small- to medium-sized reporting requirements. As for costs, I don't recall
how much CrystalReports runs, but I think there are developer licenses and
runtime licenses.
FYI, the actual integration of ReportKit is pretty quick. The more
time-consuming piece of any report tool integration is the design and
implementation of the reports to be used.
I hope this helps.
-Katie
Katie Tierney
Quality Management Analyst
Akili Systems Group
601 Jefferson, Suite 3975
Houston, Texas 77002
Office: (713) 655-1400
Cell: (409) 255-1643
"The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low
price is forgotten" --Larry Anderson
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Brooke-N502365 [mailto:Robert.Brookeca.michelin.com]
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 8:17 AM
To: kamranaminyahoo.com
Subject: (forte-users) Reporting tools/components for Forte
Applications?
Hi all,
We are looking for what is currently in the marketplace to enhance the
reporting
capabilities of Forte. Ideally, we are looking for component libraries that
we
could import into our repository. Do these exist?
Currently, I have found six reporting tools that are out there. The
tools
are Actuate, Crystal Reports, Report Workshop from Indus Consultancy
Services, Brio Technologies (SQR) VisualBRIO, Visual CyberQuery from
Cyberscience Corp., and Beacon from Brahma Software Solutions FORTify
Components. Are there any others for Forte?
If anyone is currently using one of these Reporting Tools for Forte or
any
others, could you give me any indications as to the costs, training, type
of
application using the Reporting tool, would you recommend using the
product
again, does it use wrappering or API, or is it a component based tool, and
any
other relevant information on the product?
Thanks,
Robert Brooke
Application Developer
Michelin North America (Canada) Inc. CA0/CA1
PO Box 399
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
B2H-3E6
Phone: (902) 753-1977
Fax: (902) 396-2180
Note: We are currently developing in Forte 3.0.L.2. However, we would
like
to select a reporting tool/component within the next month. We are in the
initial phases of our next project, an application to be developed
in-house.
Probably will have two databases, one for real-time data and another one
for
archived data. Probably will need reporting functionality and capabilities
for
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At 09:33 AM 4/20/01, Rottier, Pascal wrote:
Forte 4GL is:
1) A language, TOOL (Compare to Java)
2) An IDE (Compare to e.g. JBuilder or FJCE)
3) A collaborative development environment, with central repository (Compare
to ????)
4) A distributed application server / object request broker (Compare to J2EE
servers and/or CORBA)Let's not forget WebEnterprise, Express, and especially Fusion.
I think, SUN is not al all interested in TOOL.If TOOL were just a language and had no market yet, you are probably
right. But, not only is TOOL the key to the Forte environment, but it has
an existing and profitable market. Sun still sells FORTRAN, after all, and
continues to put money into ADE development for all its language
products. The real kicker, though, is that I think iPlanet is very clear
that Fusion, now iIS, is a very key product for them. There may be those
who wish it were written in Java and who might lobby for doing a Java
version, but it was clear at the conference that the iPlanet management
recognize that Java just isn't up to the task at this point. It isn't as
if all the iPlanet tools are actually written in Java, after all.
They will only support them for as long as they need.Or, more likely, for as long as they make money.
Now, in response to Microsofts .NET stratagy. We have yet to see how
succesfull this will be, but I expect Microsoft to push this down the
throats of developers and companies quite succesfully.Like they did DCOM?
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How to View User Report

I had created a query and created the report by clicking create report button. But i am not aware how to view the report. I am unable to find appropriate menu item to view the user report.
Kindly Help me.
Farhan

Hi Wadood,
To view a already set-up report in the defined query layout, you need to open up query manager, select the report (do not double click - just highlight!) and then click on the print preview button.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Hamsa

List of users in a user report

Hi All,
I have the need to run a user report which reports only certain accountId's . How do i accomplish this.
In the out-of-the-box 'All Users' report i can choose just one accountId at a time. Is there a way i can put a list of accountIds and run the report and report on only that list?
Appreciate any help.

hi martin,
Can you just detail in more about these configuration steps which i have to do when any idoc(ORDERS,INVOIC etc) fails on a particular day , then immediately i have to trigger a mail to SAP Mailbox to the user who has logged in.
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Regards
Chaithanya

How to Make a field User Entered - Required by javaScript

Dear all,
How can I make a field User Entered - Required on some conditions e.g. it is required in the following conditions.
1)I have a group of radio buttons of Yes and No.I want if the user select yes then a particular text field should Required otherwise it should optional.
2)In a particular row of a table if user fill the first column then other columns of that row should required otherwise it should optional.
How can I do it?If any body can please help me.
Thanks a bunch in advance
Regards
Rakesh

I have the same problem. I need to change all fields to be not required. Adobe doesn't seem to recognize the change.
var fieldCount = event.target.numFields;
for ( var i = 0; i < fieldCount; i++)
var fieldName = event.target.getNthFieldName(i);
app.alert(fieldName);
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if(field.type != "button")
app.alert(field.required);
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Standard Report requirement

Hi Guys
In my current implementation i have one report requirement.
Iam giving lot of benefits to my employees. I like to capture all the expenses employee wise.
I have already uploaded the employee personel number and during transactions we are entering the personel number
But we i go and check the report, in the dynamic selection the personel number is not available
Is it possible to take a standard report based on personnel number. If i give a personel number - i should get all the expnese gl accounts done for that employee
Warm Regards
Bala

Hi:
I have a suggestion.
Create Employees as Employee vendors in Accounts payable.While creating vendor master, In the accounting information tab, assign the personel no.You have a separate reconciliation account for this employee vendors.
Make Payments to vendor by using T.code F-53 . You can view the report of all employees to whom payment was made.
You can view the standard reports to see the payments made to the employees.
S_ALR_87012103 - List of Vendor Line Items
S_ALR_87012083 - List of Vendor Open Items for Printing
Please let me know if you need more information.
Assign points if useful.
Regards
Sridhar M

Report requirement from BW

Hi ,
I need to execute the scenario in bw for report requirement.
the report requirement is:
The Fields are material, Batch, internal char, char value.
Here the logic is the field Internal char no have values vintage,Bill of entry and the field char value have 222, 333-7876 for correponding field.
   Material        Batch          Internal Char no.         Char vlue
   2009822       58938         Vintage                        222
                                           Bill of entry                  333-7876
They need bw report like
Material             Batch          Vintage             Billof entry
2009822           58938           222                  333- 7876
Can any one give idea.
Thanks,
Satya

Hi Satya,
Follow the below given steps,
1) Goto rows area and right click to create new formula variable.
2) In the edit step of your formula, remove the default description and put a &, you will get different options. select the new text variable.
3) Give the variable name, description and select the type as replacement path.
4) On the next screen select your characteristics i.e. Internal cost type (first char).
5) on the next screen select replace variable with Key or text value whichever you want.
6) Here we are done with heading part.
Now for defination of formula variable,
1) Right click on Formual variable tree and create a new variable.
2) Select type as replacement path and on next screen select the other characteristics i.e. Internal cost value i.e. 222.
3) Again on next screen replace variable with key.
4) Finally select Dimension indicator as Number.
5) We are ready to use the variable. In the defination part use newly created variable.
Now you will get the output in exactly required format.
Regards,
Durgesh.

Report requirement, for count before the input selection.

Hi All,
I have a requirement:
And in infoprovider we have :
in 07.2011, 10 records were created.
in 08.2011, 40 records were created.
in 09.2011, 50 records were created.
in 10.2011, 70 records were created.
User enters month interval like 07.2011 - 10.2011
and wants outout like:
Calmonth:... 07.2011....08.2011.......09.2011.......10.2011
Count : ........30010.......30050...........30100..........30170
Means.in report 07.2011 should show all the count upto 07.2011,
Similarly 08.2011 show all counts upto 08.2011 month. And in same way others also.
Since input is 07.2011 to 10.2011, so report is considering only data between this range only.
How do i get count before 07.2011 in report and meet report requirement.
Please suggest and let me know if more information is required.
Thanks,
Jitender.

Hi Jitender,
It is not possible to generate the query columns dynamically in the output based on the user input.
For getting the aggregated value what you can do is, create a customer exit variable on fiscal period and restrict it from some starting period till user entered period.
In your example let us say you have data from 07.2009 then your customer exit variable will have range from 07.2009 till 07.2011. Use this variable in a RKF with count as key figure and period as customer exit variable here you will get the output as 30010.
For getting the next columns you can change the period range by using offset. But you will have to create different columns beforehand in the query design itself. The only thing you can do is based on the user input different columns will be populated even you can keep the dynamic text using text variable so that you will get dynamic period heading but dynamic creation of columns is not possible.
Regards,
Durgesh.

Parameterized Views for User Reports

I would like to be able to define a view such as:
create view dept_emps(p_dept in varchar2) as
select * from emps where dept = p_dept);
and use this view to define a SQL Dev drilldown report with SQL such as:
select * from dept_emps(:DEPT)
where :DEPT is a bind variable passed from a selected depts report row.
Oracle apparently does not support parameterized view definitions as suggested above, but I have found an article by Tom Kyte on the issue of parameterizing views, where Tom suggests using DBMS_SESSION.SET_CONTEXT (called within a user package) to set context values that can be retrieved in a view using the SYS_CONTEXT function. I can get this approach to work at the SQL prompt to work around the lack of formal view parameters. I have a package which defines a procedure which sets context values that I can then retrieve within a view using the SYS_CONTEXT function.
To use this approach when defining a SQL Developer user report, the SQL for the report would need to be logically something like (which works fine at an SQL prompt):
exec ssuper_context.set_ctx('DEPT', :DEPT) - - Call user procedure to assign context variable 'DEPT' with bind value from parent report
select * from dept_emps
where view dept_emps uses function SYS_CONTEXT to return the value for context variable 'DEPT'.
SQL Developer complains about this as the SQL for a user-defined report. Can anyone suggest how I might pass a bind value from a selected parent record to a view which implements a drilldown report?
TIA Jon

I met CSI at a kongress a few weeks ago and pressed them a bit on how this works. Eventually they fezzed up about the table read but mentioned that in the next release being developed it would be different...
Problems with this is that the FM has a couple of limitations, so you cannot read all tables correctly... so you end up reading some of the wrong ones or taking the easy ones.
Another option is to let the database itself do the hard work, to get back to the performance aspect.
Anyway, for neither of these two do you need any tcode, so indeed we are drifting off topic...

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