Hi Brian,

Yes the Irish game was a bit of a surprise - credit to them though they adopted 
a very clever game plan. We have the French on Saturday - a replay of the RWC 
quarters last time when they tipped us out - (not a knockout round this time 
:-). 

Business is very quiet but still holding head above water. When the 
Christchurch rebuild kicks in the Building Industry will probably be the main 
benefactor of what has been a tragedy for the people of Christchurch . Spending 
alot of time and for the rest of this year getting the factory ship- shape, to 
be able to make the most of the opportunity. Rebuild is still in reality 
another 18 months away before the insurance and finance issues get resolved. 
The place is still not stable enough (and the liquifaction) to build on. 
They've had another four so called "after shocks" just today (3.6, 2.7, 3.0, 
2.6) had 9 in similar range yesterday and 8 the day before that - 3 of them 
were 4.2, 4.1, and 4.3. They are a pretty staunch lot down there but must be a 
nightmare for many of them - just checked they have had 8647 shocks since 4th 
Sept 2010, 29 over magntude 5, and 903 over 3.5 - that averages over 20 per day 
in the last 12mths, and no local Rugby World Cup games either as their Stadium 
was destroyed - you gotta feel for them, just can't imagine what that is like - 
perhaps Eric can give you all a local perspective.

Catch ya

Colin
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brian Hancock 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 7:31 PM
  Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Totalling Report Variables


  Beat me to it Colin, was just about to put ink on email

   

  'ow's the rugby going?  damn Eye-rish  

   

  Hope everything is going well over your side.

   

  Bye

  Brian

   

   


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  From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Colin Roberts
  Sent: Wednesday, 21 September 2011 3:48 PM
  To: [email protected]
  Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Totalling Report Variables

   

  Hi again,

   

  Before someone replies to the previous email, I've actually got this working 
by creating a separate field in the items panels to capture the discounted 
amount (or the non-discounted amount for the items not discounted) by using the 
"Store report variable in Field" and then running "Keep a total" on that field 
which stores the Total in a newly created field in the Header page. From that 
total I can then print the total on the Quotation. I had thought this was going 
to be a bit unwieldy - but it's actually worked out quite well. The report can 
be run multiple times and the figures from the last time the report is run are 
showing for both the items and the total in their respective panels and the 
Orig figures are available as well. So unless there's a real simply way of 
doing this within just the report itself, that I've overlooked, I think I'm all 
OK

   

  Cheers

   

  Colin

    ----- Original Message ----- 

    From: Colin Roberts 

    To: [email protected] 

    Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 2:14 PM

    Subject: [Dataperf] Totalling Report Variables

     

    Hi,

     

    I have reports that produce quotations. The header page has a "Keep a 
Total" field. I have been using a Report Variable (RV) with a prompt to 
discount each item in the report when required, and also apply the same RV to 
the total so the discounted total is printed at bottom. No data gets updated 
within the database panels - just the report shows the discounted amounts and 
the discounted total. 

    Benefit is the the report can be used to generate different quotations 
offering a different discount structure each time it is run (eg for different 
customers) and the Data in the database remains as per Original.

     

    We now want to be able to only discount some items within the quotation. 
That is working OK with individual items - the slightly more complex RV sorts 
the discounted items from the non discounted items and we are printing the 
correct amounts against ea item.

    The problem is being able to get the correct total to the quotation. 

    Obviously the old simple way of applying the same RV discount cannot be 
applied to the total on the Header page as before. We need to somehow keep a 
rolling total of the RVs like the count items scenario eg  Set rv1 = zero and 
then RV1 + 1 but this is like a RV1 + RV1 carried from item to item. 

    Is there a way to achieve this without say creating a new field in the 
items panel (say P3F78) which will hold the discounted/non discounted amounts 
and then use the RV1 set to zero and RV1 + P3F78 to get the required discounted 
total

    I looking to achieve this solely within the report if possible - any 
suggestions welcome

     

    Regards

     

    Colin Roberts

     

     


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