How Can I Apply Dynamic Sorting For Columns In Matrix Reports
Apr 30, 2008
Hi,
We have a matrix report which displays columns in a default sorting order. This report columns vary dynamically depending on the user input.
e.g. If user wants to see the report for column Alfa, Beta , Gama then a report will be genarted with column Alfa, Beta , Gama sorted in alphabetical order.
Site
%Risk
Alfa
Beta
Gama
X
2
1
2
3
Y
10
4
5
6
However the users want the Columns to be sorted in the order which they provide the inputs e.g. if the user entered Gama, Alfa, Beta the report should display the columns in the same order instead of applying the default sorting order.
Site
%Risk
Gama
Alfa
Beta
X
2
3
1
2
Y
10
6
4
5
Any thoughts on ways to achieve this in SSRS matrix report would really help.
I need to display 12 months dynamically in columns of a matrix report, starting with the current MMM, yy - 3 in the first column, current MMM, yy and incrementing by 1 month in columns 2-12.
For example a report that would run on today's MM, yy (5/2007) would look something like this:
Could you please anyone tell me how to have static and dynamic columns in a matrix?
We can add static columns by right clicking detail text box and add column. But it will repeat for each column group. I need static columns in the dynamic columns level itself.
Adding more columns in a matrix report that don€™t belong to the columns drilldown dimensions€¦
That is, for example, having the following report:
Product Family
Product
Country City Number of units sold
Then I would add some ratios, that is, Units Sold/Months (sold per month) and other that is the average for Product Family (Units Sold/Number of Product Family), for putting an example€¦ some columns should be precalculated prior to the report so do not get into it, the real problem I don€™t see how to solve is adding one or two columns for showing these calculated column that doesn€™t depend on the column groups but they do for the rows groups€¦
Any guidance on that?
The only way I am seeing by now is to set it as two different reports, and that is not what my client wants€¦
I am trying to sort a matrix by column. I first tried adding an interactive sort to the column heading, but it either gave me a run-time error, or there was not response. I then tried adding sorting to the row groups, and that doesn't seem to work either. I feel I have done every combination of groupings and sort expressions. Has anyone been able to accomplish this? Thanks, Kris
Hi. I need to implement a matrix that supports column sorting just like a table. For example, given a matrix that contains...
Col1 Col2Row1 1 8Row2 2 6Row3 3 7
...if the user clicks on "Col2", I need the matrix to look like this:
Col1 Col2Row2 2 6 Row3 3 7Row1 1 8
I cannot use the interactive sort feature since the matrix must be WYSIWYG with the printed copy and the built-in interactive sort arrows do appear in printed output.
Here's my partial solution; my hope is that someone can point me in the right direction from here:
When the user clicks on a column heading I will jump to a URL such as: http://myserver/myreport.aspx?SortField=Col2&SortDirection=Ascending
SortField and SortDirection are parsed by the web app and passed as parameters to my report.
So, after the user clicks on Col2 the report knows the following: Parameters!SortField.Value = "Col2" and Parameters!SortDirection.Value = "Ascending"
Given this information, is there a way to tell the report's matrix to actually display the data in the order shown in the example above.
You say, "we enjoy the option of specifying sorting for multiple columns within the matrix, table or list within which we are working." But, when I add interactive sorting to the headers of a matrix, the up and down toggles appear in the preview, but the rows are not sorted after clicking.
This works perfectly fine on tables, as you say, but I have yet to see it on a matrix.
I have created a Matrix report with 5 row groups (Company and ProductName, ProductEndDate), one column group (Status) and two data columns(Amount & Count).
The report works fine except that it does not sort properly. I want to sort the data by Company, ProductEndDate, ProductName.
I took the following steps -- I highlighted the matrix and in the properties dialog box, selected the groups tab. In groups I selected each row group, hit the edit button, clicked the sorting tab and Company, ProductEndDate, ProductName.
I have a matrix with the rows consisting of customers and the columns consisting of different revenue streams. The revenue streams are totalled using the matrix subtotal feature. I would like to sort, either interactively or statically (if that is the only option) by the subtotal column. I've read through everything I can find online and even the solutions that appear to be appropriate do not work. Can anyone give me a suggestion?
I have a matrix report...the column results are as follows
Con Std , Con Access, SF Std, SF Acc, Broadband, Pay TV
how would i make the columns appear in the above order when displaying as it is default alphetically sorted...I have tried putting numbers at the front which work till I get to the number 10 which alphetically sorted is next to 1 not 9? is there a better way off sorting matrix column which have no specific criteria to sort from?
I know that SQL Servers can be set up to forward alerts to a singleSQL Server. I am wondering if same would be true for the MaintenancePlan Reports. Basically, I want to have only one SQL Server on thenetwork that has the SQL Agent Mail profile set up, and to use thatserver for all e-mail and/or pager notifications for all alerts andevents raised by any of the SQL Servers on the network, includingMaintenance Plan reports. Is this possible? Is anything required toset this up beyond alerts forwarding?Alexey Aksyonenko
I am creating a Matrix report using SSRS/Visual Studio 2008 as below:
Jan Feb March April May June July Aug Sept Oct
A & B are customers. The values represent sales for each month.I have got most parts in place except the Month are displayed in random order (1,10,2,3,4,5,6 and so on).I have tried the option to create a calculated column with month numbers and change group properties but that did not work.how to get it to sort display as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10.
I have a table called Courses with columns "courseCode" "courseName" and "TeacherName"Im passing in a value @prefixText ...I have the following...Select courseModuleCode from courses Where courseModuleCode like @prefixTextwhat I actually want to do is return one list, i.e. one column that will do the same for "courseName" and "TeacherName" aswell based on what the @prefix tag is...so i will end up with one column that may contains some or all of the following courseModuleCode, courseName, TeacherName. Im basically implementing a search on this table and want the users to search by any of the column nameshope this makes sense.
I'm having an issue with sorting reports. I have an order by in the query which returns the results how I want them, but if I use the auto generated columns and layout they are not in the order that the query returns them. However, if I manually create a new table and put the results in that they are ordered fine.
I am having this problem in reporting services for sql 2000, but my workmate has had exactly the same thing in his reporting for 2005.
I am facing one problem with reporting services 2005 (SSRS), When i try to pass a parameter to Cube which is built in SSAS, i can not use a parameter where i can type the value instead of choosing it from a dimension.
Any way we can type the value for parameter, instead choosing from the drop down? If can, then how can we create the parameter? and how can i write a MDX to read it?
I've been banging my head against this for a while now and have searched through the documentation and google and posted to the newsgroups with no luck.
The ReportExecution2005 namespace contains a sort method, but the documentation doesn't indicate how it's used. The method accepts a string for the sort item, but that string apparently has to be an integer. I've called the method and regardless of the input, the result is the same:
* The sort method returns 1 and the report item passed in is the report item returned in the 'out' variable.
* The sorting is not reflected in the output of the Render method.
I can't simply use interactive sorting because, in our deployment, the SQL Server and Reporting Services are not accessible through the firewall. Requests go to a web server which calls the SSRS web methods and renders the report to an HTML placeholder.
I have a matrix report with 2 column SaleAmount and ProfitAmounts by Month like
Sale Profit Dealer 5/1/2007 6/1/2007 7/1/2007 5/1/2007 6/1/2007 7/1/2007 A 100 200 300 20 25 15 B 200 250 50 30 45 19
how can i do following 3 things
1)Add Total column for Sale and Average column for Profit 2)Sort report by lastMonth of Sale (here 7/1/2007) High to low 3)if last month of sale(here 7/1/2007) is less than second last month here (6/1/2007) whole row should be red
Hello everybody!I have a small table "ABC" like this:id_position | value---------------------------1 | 112 | 223 | 33I try to use a dynamic cursor as below.When the statement "order by id_position" in declare part of the cursor_abcis omitted - cursor work as it should.But when the statement "order by id_position" is used, cursor behave asstatic one.What's the matter, does anybody know?Code:declare @id_position as int, @value as intDECLARE cursor_abc CURSORFORselect id_position, value from abcorder by id_positionset nocount onopen cursor_abcFETCH NEXT FROM cursor_abcINTO @id_position, @valueWHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0BEGINprint @id_positionprint @valueprint '----------------------------'update abc set value=666 --next reading should give value=666FETCH NEXT FROM cursor_abcINTO @id_position, @valueENDCLOSE cursor_abcDEALLOCATE cursor_abcGORegardsLucas
Hello,I need to have a stored procedure, which performs sorting. Something likethis:CREATE PROCEDURE procname@sortby varchar(30)ASBEGINSELECT some, columnsFROM some_tableORDER BY @sortbyEND(of course, i know this won't work, but it gives the idea of what i mean)Is there a possibility to write a procedure which behaves like that? It isimportant for me not to have multiple procedures just for different sortingcriteria...Thanks,Mike
Hello, I have data coming in from two sources, one being SQL and the other being Oracle. The end result needs to be a CSV file with the columns in a specific order. I have a Data Flow task setup that takes both sources and does a Merge Join on them. I can add a Sort Transformation and manually set the sorting of all 156 columns that end up going to a CSV file destination. However, I have a table setup that holds the names of the 156 columns and the order that the CSV file expects them to be in. I would much rather do this step dynamically as the column names and order may change in the future. Anyone who has used the Sort Transformation for a large number of columns knows how tedious it can be and how adding a column in the middle will cause you to change the sort # for each of the columns that come after it.
So I added a Script Component between the Merge Join and the Flat File Destination hoping that I could alter the order of the columns there. However I added the following code and found that the SortKeyPosition is ReadOnly.
Public Overrides Sub Input0_ProcessInputRow(ByVal Row As Input0Buffer)
Dim column As IDTSInputColumn90
For Each column In Me.ComponentMetaData.InputCollection(0).InputColumnCollection
column.SortKeyPosition = 1
Next
End Sub
I was hoping to add some code to get the sort index from my table for each of the columns and set it to the SortKeyPosition. Has anyone out there done this before or seen an example that might point me in the right direction? I've searched for 2 days without coming up with much.
I got your email address from your web cast. I really enjoyed the web cast and found it to be very informative.
Our company is planning to use SSIS (VS 2005 / SQL Server 2005). I have a quick question regarding the product. I have looked for the information on the web, but was not able to find relevant information.
We are getting Source data from two of our client in the form of Excel Sheet. These Excel sheets Are generated using reporting services. On examining the excel sheet, I found out that the name Of the columns contain data itself, so the names are not static such as Jan 2007 Sales, Feb 2007 Sales etc etc. And even the number of columns are not static. It depends upon the range of date selected by the user.
I wanted to know, if there is a way to import Excel sheet using Integration Services by defining the position Of column, instead of column name and I am not sure if there is a way for me to import excel with dynamic Number of columns.
Your help in this respect is highly appreciated!
Thanks,
Hi Anthony, I am glad the Web cast was helpful.
Kamal and I have both moved on to other teams in MSFT and I am a little rusty in that area, though in general dynamic numbers of columns in any format is always tricky. I am just assuming its not feasible for you to try and get the source for SSIS a little closer to home, e.g. rather than using Excel output from Reporting Services, use the same/some form of the query/data source that RS is using.
I suggest you post a question on the SSIS forum on MSDN and you should get some good answers. http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showforum.aspx?forumid=80&siteid=1 http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showforum.aspx?forumid=80&siteid=1
Is matrix reports in SSRS similar to the crystal cross tab reports, if so, I am trying to create my first report using reporting services in matrix report format, can you please send me a good reference I can use to create my first report. Thanks!
Once Matrix Report is designed in Report Builder, is there a setting we can set where once the report is generated all the groupings are expanded automatically?
I am using Report Builder 3.0 and i have report which has a drill down group. The report opens in a collapsed form.This report has interactive sorting on a column. But,when we drill down and sort the column, the group collapses and the details disappear.
In some posts, i have seen that instead of interactive sorting, people recommended a parameter. But i have to do interactive sorting only.
I am trying to have a matrix report filter on records that had sales in a prior month but no sales in the current month. Basically looking for accounts we €œlost€?
For example:
Name Invoice Date Quantity Joe 4/1/2007 7 John 5/1/2007 13 John 4/1/2007 7 Tim 6/12/2007 6
The matrix report pulls back
Name Month
April May June Joe 7 Tim 7 13 John 6
I am trying to return only names that had quantity in May and don't in June.
I would like it only to return Tim€™s record because we lost his business in June.
How do I get sub totals in the matrix of the reports. I have my report in the format of matrix and I want to display the sub totals for the matrix at the end of each row and column. Is there any solution for this????
I have tried building an Inline TVF, as I assume this is how it would be used on the DB; however, I am receiving the following error on my code, I must be missing a step somewhere, as I've never done this before. I'm lost on how to implement this clr function on my db?
Error: Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Procedure clrDynamicPivot, Line 18 Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'external'. CREATE FUNCTION clrDynamicPivot ( -- Add the parameters for the function here @query nvarchar(4000), @pivotColumn nvarchar(4000),
