I am trying to create a report in BI. I have created a data model using a sql script and the data type is string. I then created a report using this data model and the sample data is showing as 06185 as shown below.
But when i run the report the output is showing as 6185.0 with decimal places.
I have tried to change the format by double clicking the value. But I cant choose any format except none in the report designer. What I need is the values to be displayed same as the sample data.
06185 is not a number - it's a string. As a number you will never have leading 0s. 6185 is a number.
So first of all you need to find out what your data is really supposed to be. "06185" = string. 6185 = integer. 6185.0 = double.
To be quick simply add ' character next to the number character... Else excel will make your life difficult specially if you have bank account numbers...
SELECT payees.supplier_site_id csupplier_site_id,
payees.org_id c_org_id,
payees.payee_party_id ,
cbbv.bank_name,
max(''''||to_char(ieb.bank_account_num)) as bank_account_num
FROM apps.iby_pmt_instr_uses_all instrument,
apps.iby_account_owners owners,
apps.iby_external_payees_all payees,
apps.iby_ext_bank_accounts ieb,
apps.ap_supplier_sites_all asa,
apps.ap_suppliers asp,
apps.ce_bank_branches_v cbbv
WHERE owners.primary_flag = 'Y'
AND owners.ext_bank_account_id = ieb.ext_bank_account_id
AND owners.ext_bank_account_id = instrument.instrument_id
AND payees.ext_payee_id = instrument.ext_pmt_party_id
AND payees.payee_party_id = owners.account_owner_party_id
AND payees.supplier_site_id = asa.vendor_site_id
AND asa.vendor_id = asp.vendor_id
and bank_party_id(+) = ieb.bank_id
--AND cbbv.branch_party_id(+) = ieb.branch_id
AND (
(INSTRUMENT.END_DATE IS NULL)
OR
( INSTRUMENT.END_DATE >= TO_DATE(SYSDATE) )
)
AND (
(IEB.END_DATE IS NULL)
OR
(IEB.END_DATE >= TO_DATE(SYSDATE))
)
group by payees.supplier_site_id ,
payees.org_id ,
payees.payee_party_id ,
cbbv.bank_name
You may have to edit this with the desktop Microsoft Word add-in. There's limited capabilities with the Oracle BI Publisher Stand-alone running on the server.
You have 100% control if you're editing the template in Word. Unfortunately, there's limited export capability to export your existing template. Oracle BI publisher stand-alone will export an XML file, which to my knowledge is not visually editable in Word. There is an ability to import an RTF file which you created in Word, though. So Install the BI Publisher desktop/Word add-in. Make a new file, save as .rtf format, use the tool to import an example XML file, add a table, and continue editing as you need to. If you need help with this, there's plenty of documentation out there to get you started. Also, there's a Template Viewer application that's also installed that will let you process the XML sample/data file and rtf file into Excel, PDF, or whichever you prefer.
Background:
Visual Studio 2015 allows to create queries on your work items, bugs etc. stored in the Team foundation server (TFS). There is a query editor where you add conditions like
which will return bugs in the current projects that are not closed and resolved. So far it works fine, the bugs are replicated from an external system (HP ALM) into TFS.
If I now want to restrict bugs being assigned to me only, I can use the "Assigned To" field and add it as contition, but ALM uses a different account which is tracked by the "HP ALM Assigned To" field.
So I want to create a condition like
(Team Project = #Project) AND (State <> Closed) AND (State <> Resolced)
AND (HP ALM Assigned To = "myALMID" OR Assigned To = #Me)
But as you can see the query editor does not allow to enter brackets, and the condition as it is shown above does not do the right thing, because it will evaluate as
(Team Project = #Project) AND (State <> Closed) AND (State <> Resolced)
AND (HP ALM Assigned To = "myALMID")
OR Assigned To = #Me
which appears to be not the same - instead it shows all items assigned to #Me OR all items meeting the condition
(Team Project = #Project) AND (State <> Closed) AND (State <> Resolced)
AND (HP ALM Assigned To = "myALMID")
because the AND operator takes precedence over OR.
Question:
What do I need to change so the query is working as expected?
Update: I tried it with grouping, as suggested by Daniel Mann, but that does also not return the results I want:
I tried to change the OR HP ALM Assigned To = "myALMID" to AND HP ALM Assigned To = "myALMID" but that still does not do it right.
When you select two or more clauses, you can group them together. There should be buttons on the UI and items on the right-click context menu.
Group clauses works on my side. You may check whether the field HP ALM Assigned To has correct value:
Considering both hints from Cece - MSFT and Daniel Mann, I modified the query as follows:
You can see that now there are only 14 items returned, which is correct. The issue seems to be solved, thanks both - I upvoted you because you both contributed to the solution.
Now let me summarize, what I learned from this:
The order in which the conditions appear seem to matter. I moved the group containing HP Assigned to and Assigned to to the top to be able to select only "OR" between them and grouped it together
I had the ALM ID in quotes, which is wrong - so I removed them.
I grouped the state conditions together (but I am not sure if that is required)
What is a pity is that the query editor does not allow "Not In", only "Not In Group", so I had to repeat the "State" lines for each state I wanted to exclude.
I find lots of info about passing parameter into subreport, but nothing about passing it from main report into command object in main report. (This is the closest I could find.)
The command object received from the vendor (names changed to reduce length) contains
left join LOC L on L.ID = P.Loc_ID
We add parameter "Area" to the main report. {?Area} does what we expect in formulas, but it won't work in a record selection because it can't be matched to anything coming out of the command object. If I replace table LOC in the cited line as
left join **(select * from LOC where A = {?Area})** L on L.ID = P.Loc_ID
then SQL Server complains of "syntax error, permission violation, or other nonspecific error" [sic]
If I create the parameter in the command object editor (even though it already exists outside), then the whole Crystal IDE crashes!
The command object already has parameters that it magically gets from the main report. Must I remove it from the main report (proctalgia) before adding it to the command object? I can't find anything on any menus to link the two parameters together, like I can for a subreport.
Version 2008, if that matters.
If you are using an SQL command, don't create the parameters in the main report. The window where you put your SQL has a section called Parameter List. Create all your parameters relating to the query there and it will be transfered to the main report.
In your coding you have {?Area}, create a parameter with the name Area.
I found a video demonstrating it. It's an old version of Crystal Reports but still works the same.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHNHsIUbcn8
I found creating the command object and the parameter FIRST is the key. The parameter (say it is InstNo), is then created in the subreport. You can then use "Change SubReport Links" (right click on the subreport), and select that parameter as the parameter to link to. So basically do it backwards, create the command object first, then link it back to the main report. For whatever reason if you do it the other way it does not work (even if the name is the same). Just my experience.
Query's throwing an ORA-00907 Error when I try to paste a list of values into a criteria.
Background: I'm not a developer, I'm just an end user that's studied enough to where I can write queries using PS/Query within Peoplesoft,
for my company's implementation. I work with Peoplesoft's FSCM module
(Financials and Supply Chain Management), currently on Version FSCM
8.90.08.024, using I think Oracle 11g as the base database.
I'm mostly self-taught, and the technical experts we have are busy
with database/application stuff, or they aren't familiar with my
section's specific data needs.
I should point out that I'm unable to directly write SQL statements to
Query the database. I have to use a built-in program called "PS/Query"
(also known as Query Manager) with a GUI that writes the SQL for you
and saves it as a Query that you can run to the database to extract
data. This is relevant to my question only in that:
1. I cannot create or alter views/tables
2. I cannot perform any type of SQL Statement except "SELECT"
3. I can embed PL/SQL, MetaSQL and plain SQL into Expressions
4. At this point, Query Manager is the only option I have.
PS/Query is my only experience with SQL so far, aside from Oracle's
documentation and sites like this. From my research, it's considered
extremely confining by "actual" SQL programmers.The restrictions on it
require you to do things in a manner that violates what seem to be
best practices of SQL coding.
Query Request: I have a query I've been requested to write that pulls out spend (on Vouchers and POs) against certain system-defined
Category Codes. What I'm trying to do is pull in Voucher IDs, sum the
merchandise amounts on them by Vendor and Category Code, and display
the results. Or in other words, for every unique combination of
Vendor/Category, add up all the Voucher Amounts that have that
Vendor/Category combination.
Using the SUM (Fieldname) OVER (PARTITION BY fieldname, fieldname)
syntax.
So the end result should look something like...
Code Vendor Amount
123-45 Acme $5000.00
123-45 Apple $4200.00
123-46 Acme $750.00
With that said, here's the SQL that Query Manager is displaying to get the result set I showed above:
SELECT DISTINCT D.CATEGORY_CD, D.TN_DESCR1000, C.VENDOR_ID, E.NAME1, SUM ( A.MERCH_AMT_VCHR) OVER (PARTITION BY D.CATEGORY_CD, C.VENDOR_ID),E.SETID,E.VENDOR_ID
FROM PS_PO_LINE_MATCHED A, PS_PO_LINE B, PS_PO_HDR C, PS_ITM_CAT_TBL D, PS_VENDOR E, PS_PYMNT_VCHR_XREF F
WHERE A.BUSINESS_UNIT = B.BUSINESS_UNIT
AND A.PO_ID = B.PO_ID
AND A.LINE_NBR = B.LINE_NBR
AND B.BUSINESS_UNIT = C.BUSINESS_UNIT
AND B.PO_ID = C.PO_ID
AND D.CATEGORY_ID = B.CATEGORY_ID
AND D.EFFDT =
(SELECT MAX(D_ED.EFFDT) FROM PS_ITM_CAT_TBL D_ED
WHERE D.SETID = D_ED.SETID
AND D.CATEGORY_TYPE = D_ED.CATEGORY_TYPE
AND D.CATEGORY_CD = D_ED.CATEGORY_CD
AND D.CATEGORY_ID = D_ED.CATEGORY_ID
AND D_ED.EFFDT <= SYSDATE)
AND ( F.SCHEDULED_PAY_DT >= TO_DATE('2010-07-01','YYYY-MM-DD')
AND F.SCHEDULED_PAY_DT <= TO_DATE('2011-06-30','YYYY-MM-DD'))
AND D.CATEGORY_CD LIKE :1
AND E.VENDOR_ID = C.VENDOR_ID
AND A.BUSINESS_UNIT = F.BUSINESS_UNIT
AND A.VOUCHER_ID = F.VOUCHER_ID
ORDER BY 1
Underlying Issue: This works fine, but it can only prompt on one
Category Code at a time. Category Codes are 5 digits, a 3-digit
"Class" followed by a dash and then a 2-digit "subclass. I have a list
of 375 Category Codes I need to get this Query result for.
I've set up a prompt on this version that allows entry of a Wildcard
(So 123-%%), but that's still about a hundred separate runs of the
Query. Query Manager allows use of an "In List" expression type in
Criteria, but it requires you to manually enter each entry in the
list.
I'm trying to set it up to where I can paste a plaintext copy of the
Code list into an Expression, with proper quotes/commas, and have it
evaluate that to give me a combined list of all the NIGP codes
specified. The Prompt field created by Query Manager doesn't allow
pasting of lists (as far as I know).
Attempted Solution: I viewed the page at http://peoplesoft.ittoolbox.com/groups/technical-functional/peoplesoft-other-l/create-an-expression-in-psoft-90-query-to-paste-a-list-of-emplids-2808427 and I've tried some of the answers given there, but none of them worked. That page led to me trying this modified SQL (obviously the list of codes is truncated a bit for display here):
SELECT DISTINCT D.CATEGORY_CD, D.TN_DESCR1000, C.VENDOR_ID, E.NAME1, SUM ( A.MERCH_AMT_VCHR) OVER (PARTITION BY D.CATEGORY_CD, C.VENDOR_ID),E.SETID,E.VENDOR_ID
FROM PS_PO_LINE_MATCHED A, PS_PO_LINE B, PS_PO_HDR C, PS_ITM_CAT_TBL D, PS_VENDOR E, PS_PYMNT_VCHR_XREF F
WHERE A.BUSINESS_UNIT = B.BUSINESS_UNIT
AND A.PO_ID = B.PO_ID
AND A.LINE_NBR = B.LINE_NBR
AND B.BUSINESS_UNIT = C.BUSINESS_UNIT
AND B.PO_ID = C.PO_ID
AND D.CATEGORY_ID = B.CATEGORY_ID
AND D.EFFDT =
(SELECT MAX(D_ED.EFFDT) FROM PS_ITM_CAT_TBL D_ED
WHERE D.SETID = D_ED.SETID
AND D.CATEGORY_TYPE = D_ED.CATEGORY_TYPE
AND D.CATEGORY_CD = D_ED.CATEGORY_CD
AND D.CATEGORY_ID = D_ED.CATEGORY_ID
AND D_ED.EFFDT <= SYSDATE)
AND ( F.SCHEDULED_PAY_DT >= TO_DATE('2010-07-01','YYYY-MM-DD')
AND F.SCHEDULED_PAY_DT <= TO_DATE('2011-06-30','YYYY-MM-DD'))
AND D.CATEGORY_CD = '005-00' OR D.CATEGORY_CD IN ('015-00,'' '015-06,'' '015-10,'' '615-07'')
AND E.VENDOR_ID = C.VENDOR_ID
AND A.BUSINESS_UNIT = F.BUSINESS_UNIT
AND A.VOUCHER_ID = F.VOUCHER_ID
ORDER BY 1
And the SQL above is what's giving me the ORA-00907 error. Has anyone ran into this problem before? Massive wall of text, I know. My apologies. This is my first post here and I'm trying not to leave anything relevant out.
I've got the immediate problem that spurred this question fixed,but that request is just the tip of a very large iceberg, and at some point I need to figure out a way to be able to paste plaintext lists in as criteria using Query Manager, preferably in a way that plays nice with Analytic Grouping.
TL;DR version:
Using Peoplesoft Query Manager to do an Analytic SUM with grouping using OVER, PARTITION BY. When I try to paste a list into the criteria, it throws an ORA-00907 Error.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Ok, after a bit more tweaking with this, I've found what I think is the underlying issue.
The error, in this case, is two-fold. Part of it was my fault (I didn't check for Peoplesoft mangling the quotation marks I pulled from Word), and part of it was the way Query Manager interprets some kinds of functions (you have to wrap some stuff in a Case When statement to get it to evaluate properly).
First, the "My Fault" part:
Every time I was pasting in my list of test NIGP Codes, I was doing it from a file I kept saved in Microsoft Word.
Which has the probably-handy "replace straight quotes with smart quotes" feature. Peoplesoft goes bonkers when its presented a "smart quote", and will display them as upside-down question marks (there's probably a technical term, I don't know it).
So when I'd test suggestions (such as fixing the quote/comma order as suggested by #Rene Nyffenegger and #WayneH) I'd start with my base test query, add in the expressions and test it, saving it as a separate query. If they didn't work, I'd go back to the base query. That way I could iterate changes and save potential tests as different versions.
My mistake was in not saving the different versions, leaving the application and going back in. It's when you save the query, leave the page, go somewhere else in Peoplesoft, then go back to open Query Manager that it actually shows you that it's doing the character conversion. You can't see it unless you do that. Even though Query Manager is doing it. So it was throwing a character Query Manager wouldn't recognize, but not showing me the character it wouldn't recognize.
I got a new work PC recently, and I've now disabled the Smart Quotes auto-replace for future use.
Second, the "Query Manager: part:
On the version of this that I got to work, I made use of wrapping the "IN" function inside a Case statement. I've found that a lot of SQL functions, when used "plain" (as I'd define them by just copy-pasting from Oracle's definitions pages and filling in the appropriate variables) tend to give PS/Query (Query Manager) heartburn. But if you wrap them inside a CASE...WHEN...END statement that evaluates the result of the function and then build a criteria that selects based on certain values of that result, the function will work and properly display a result.
So for an example, set up this expression (like in the example from #qyb2zm302). I'm using different codes from what was in my original example, but they work the same (they're all five-digit, character-typed codes consisting of three digits, a dash, then two digits)
Case when E.CATEGORY_CD IN
('375-15', '375-30', '375-54', '375-60', '380-30','938-63')
then 'true'
else 'false'
end
And then set a criteria:
AND
Case when E.CATEGORY_CD IN
('375-15', '375-30', '375-54', '375-60', '380-30','938-63')
then 'true'
else 'false'
end
= 'true'
It'll run to completion and return any rows that have that Category Code.
If you don't want to do that, you can do like in #qyb2zm302's Method 2. The only downside to that in Query Manager is that you have to enter them into individual rows in the "List", and if you can only copy-paste 25 at a time.
Wrapping it in a Case Statement lets you paste it directly into an Expression, which is far better for larger lists.
Solutions:
The above is the code I went with that worked. It's simplifying a bit for brevity's sake, but it works.
In List works through the native Query Manager option as long as you manually-populate the list
D.CATEGORY_CD = '005-00' OR works as long as you wrap it in a Case Statement
D.CATEGORY_CD IN ('015-00','015-06','015-10','615-07') works as long as you wrap it in a Case Statement
Peoplesoft hates Smart Quotes. None of the above will work if you're copying quotation marks directly from Word, but you won't see it unless you save, leave and come back to the same query in edit mode
Formatting is important. All of the above require the proper comma/quotation formatting, as pointed out by Rene and Wayne. Meaning: ('xxx-xx', 'xxx-01','xxx-02') etc
Thanks to everyone who helped on this! I don't think I've head-desked this hard before on any question, but I guess that's part of the learning process. Since all the answers posted are valid and correct (or at least a portion of the larger "correct"), I'm going to flag them all.
The
D.CATEGORY_CD IN ('015-00,'' '015-06,'' '015-10,'' '615-07'')
part looks fishy to me
Since a '' within a string "evaluates" to a single ' the first string is
'015-00,'' '
followed by (the non-string)
015-06,
The following '' is probably the thing that the parser stumbles upon since it's pretty meaningless.
Edit try it with a D.CATEGORY_CD IN ('015-00', '015-06', '015-10', '615-07').
Following the link you posted, I see 2 methods for doing what you are trying to accomplish.
I also notice that you tried a 3rd method.
Method 1
Criteria > Add Criteria
Expression Type: Character
Length: 255
Expression Text: D.CATEGORY_CD IN ('015-00','015-06','015-10','615-07') AND 1
Condition Type: equal to
Constant: 1
Method 2
Criteria > Add Criteria
Field: D.CATEGORY_CD
Condition Type: in list
Value: 015-00','015-06','015-10','615-07
Method 3 (Your Method)
Criteria > Add Criteria
Field: D.CATEGORY_CD
Condition Type: equal to
Define Expression: '015-00' OR D.CATEGORY_CD IN ('015-00','015-06','015-10','615-07')
Question) Does the below exactly match the text you are putting the Expression box?
'015-00' OR D.CATEGORY_CD IN ('015-00','015-06','015-10','615-07')
If not, what are you putting in that box?
I think the D.CATEGORY_CD criteria are giving you the problems, I changed the double quotes to single quotes and then it still looked strange to me. I then notice the commas are inside your quotes and not between them, try making the one criteria line look like this:
before:
OR D.CATEGORY_CD IN ('015-00,'' '015-06,'' '015-10,'' '615-07'')
after:
OR D.CATEGORY_CD IN ('015-00', '015-06', '015-10', '615-07')
Also, the "IN" is an implied "OR" and I am not sure if you have parenthesis around the two D.CATEGORY_CD,
I would just put the one additional code into the IN criteria and remove the "D.CATEGORY_CD =" line:
before:
AND D.CATEGORY_CD = '005-00' OR D.CATEGORY_CD IN ('015-00', '015-06', '015-10', '615-07')
after:
AND D.CATEGORY_CD IN ('015-00', '015-06', '015-10', '615-07', '005-00')
Of course, you are already ordering by CATEGORY_CD, you could remove this criteria and pull all categories in one run (that is unless there are too many rows for excel), and then you might also want to include either VENDOR_ID or NAME1 in the ORDER BY clause.
Hope that helps you.
Is it possible to make a group and sort conditional? If so, is it possible to somehow do this based on the value of a textbox item?
I thought I could just set the Expression of the group and sort to something like =IIF(ReportItems!TheTextBox.Value = 0, 0, Fields!FieldName.Value), which would be perfect, but it doesn't allow me to use ReportItems in group or sort expressions =(
Really don't want to make two reports whenever I need that feature... hope someone can shed some light on this!
Using:
Microsoft reporting services
Report viewer with local processing
edit
It is a sub-report, so I can't use
report parameters.
you can. see How to: Add a Subreport and Parameters (Reporting Services)
/edit
Try to check this report parameter collection in grouping expression. Something like:
=IIF(Parameters!<ParameterName>.Count = 0, 0, Fields!FieldName.Value)
See Using Parameters Collection References in Expressions (Reporting Services)