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Johnny T
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Problem: When using Report Assistant against a 16 million row datasource our users are needing to fill out criteria but they don't always know exactly what they are looking for. For this reason they would like to be able to use the 'Values' option in the Selection Criteria {Select values} popup screen. But as one can guess, with 16 million rows it takes too much time for Report Assistant to come up with a distinct list for the users to choose from.
Question: Has anyone else found a useful solution to this problem or does anyone know of a different way to work with Report Assistant's innate tool set that will allow our users to use this option but instead pull from a different distinct list of values?


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dwf
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Can't think of a realtime way. You could pull a distinct list nightly, I suppose.

TABLE FILE whatever
BY fieldname
ON TABLE HOLD AS VALUES FORMAT FOCUS
END

Resulting in a file with one field, containing distinct values of fieldname.

Or possibly use SQL's SELECT DISTINCT and save the results. Either way, your values list will obviously be slightly out of date.


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Tony A
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Johnny,

I had a similar question posed to me at my current Client, although it was adding all the distinct values and not nearly as many.

My solution was to add some HTML form controls that allowed retrieval based on a match before one or more selections were made. Rather complex JavaScript to achieve a simple(ish) result but not in Report Assistant.

DWF's suggestion may work best for you.

T


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Piipster
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Is this for enduser using Reporting Objects from the BID interface or Managed Reporting?

What release?

Are endusers allowed to see all distinct values or only a subset?


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Johnny T
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Piipster - we are using 7.1.3. And this is for users who are running Report Assistant from the BID interface. Users are allowed to see all distinct values, and I would like for them to. But right now it takes far to long for RA to generate this list due to the number of rows in the table.


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