Column Totals / Sum by Date

HI,
I am new to RS and I am running into some problems create reports. What I
would like to do is create a report that will count all distinct rows for a
"Users" column for every single date. I am able to get the total users from
the "Users" column but the problem is getting a running list of totals by
date. There is no date field in the database. There is a date field for
enrollment and unenroll but these are not the dates I am looking for. I
would like every single date to be totaled.
Do you know of any examples of this on the web or an example that you could
send me?
Any help would be great!
ThanksYou can't report on anything that's not in your data source. It sounds like
you're trying to get a count of users for each date. You'll have to solve
that in your source query first, then you can report on it. My suggestion
is to create a new reference date table with a record for each date in the
range you want to report on. That's only 365 records per year, so make as
many years as you want. Then join to the Users table on ReferenceDate
between EnrollDate and UnenrollDate.
A nice benefit of having a reference date table is that you can put other
data in each record as well, such as week number, quarter, fiscal year and
calendar year, for easy grouping. Yeah, it's denormalized, but makes
reporting a snap. It's easy to do this is in Excel, then import the data
into SQL.
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> HI,
> I am new to RS and I am running into some problems create reports. What
> I
> would like to do is create a report that will count all distinct rows for
> a
> "Users" column for every single date. I am able to get the total users
> from
> the "Users" column but the problem is getting a running list of totals by
> date. There is no date field in the database. There is a date field for
> enrollment and unenroll but these are not the dates I am looking for. I
> would like every single date to be totaled.
> Do you know of any examples of this on the web or an example that you
> could
> send me?
> Any help would be great!
> Thanks