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<rstull>
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I am working on a report in which the data I am reporting against contains parent/child relationships. Each child is tied to its parent through a numerical code. Each child also has its own numerical code. I am trying to achieve a report that will show sales information for all of the children of a particular parent. I have set up a decode similar to below:

COMPUTE Child/A20 = DECODE Parent (111111 'GROUPNAME1' 222222 'GROUPNAME2' 33333 'Groupname3');
AS 'Child Group'


The problem I am encountering is that each parent may have several children, so there is a separate entry for each child of a parent. Is there a way to summarize all of the children of a parent to create one entry per parent code, while totaling and displaying the sales figures for the entire group? For example

Child Group Total Sales
GroupName1 $500,000
GroupName2 $600,000
GroupName3 $10, 000

Thanks!

Rachel
 
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Leah
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Rachel,

Have you tried using a define for the child group rather than a compute? Then sum by the group.

DEFINE FILE XYZ
CHILD/A20 = DECODE.....
END
TABLE FILE XYZ
SUM SALES BY CHILD
END
 
Posts: 1317 | Location: Council Bluffs, IA | Registered: May 24, 2004Report This Post
GCohen
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This type of report is handled in the
Developer Studio option in Report Painter called
the FML (financila modeling language) where lots
of parent/child relations occur (account parent to child accounts in GL) .
See the Documentation on how to use this feature.
 
Posts: 226 | Registered: June 08, 2003Report This Post
<rstull>
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Thank you both for the advice! I'll be working on it this morning.
 
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