I am attempting to recreate a CrossTab report in CrystalReports for VS2012 that was originally done using SSRS / ReportDesigner.
What I cannot figure out how to do is enable expand/collapse interactivity for the groupings at column or row level.
This type of behavior seems to be a fairly standard part of this type of report (other tools I am comparing all seem to have this behavior available).
How / where do I enable this behavior in my report definition in CrystalReports?
As far as I know you cannot do this. Crystal reports provides very limited dynamic features. It is designed with the idea to print the report.
You can emulate similar behavior by placing 2 crosstabs in 2 on demand subreports ( one for expanded, one for collapsed crosstab) However this looks like too much work to me and will require 2 calls to the database. If you already have the report in SSRS why would you convert it to Crystal ?
There are some other options to handle this: Check the first 3 minutes of this video:http://www.r-tag.com/Pages/Preview_Demo.aspx
It demonstrates the same data presented in SSRS matrix, Crystal crosstab and SQL Pivot table. The pivot table will allow your users to have expand/collapse functionality without reporting server available.
Crystal Reports' cross-tab objects don't support expanding or collapsing. Nor do they support drill-down functionality.
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A few months ago I built a set of SSAS cubes to be accessed via Excel 2007 for our team. Excel was then preferred as a front-end because business users were already familiar with excel and with the pivot table interface.
But now complaints have risen about the interface being too 'basic' and not user-friendly enough - specifically people would like to see hover-over tool-tips (or something similar) when they hover over fields in the pivot table, that will be able to give them a bit more information.
A custom .NET front-end solution would probably be ideal, but a) I don't have that level of .NET skills, and b) I don't have too much time left on this project to build something from scratch and roll it out.
Would like to hear from people here about any off-the-shelf suggestions for alternatives, that an SSAS cube can be plugged into. Thanks.
PowerPivot is the right choice for you as it has all the dimension selection options and on the fly calculated members and calculated measures features inbuilt but the solution only works with office 2010 onwards
I have an Excel report showing a pivot table pulling data from a Data Model on Sharepoint.
I need to filter the report by each "manager" in the company(10 managers in total), so that every manager sees it's own report with it's own data.
Because reports are sharepoint integrated, i cannot play with macros.
What solution would you use to solve this problem?
My idea so far is to create a manager slicer, select manager, hide slicer and save excel. For a total of 10 excel reports. Not sure if that's a decent way tho.
I would also like to avoid creating 10 data models.
Any idea is welcome, thanks.
gg.nz,
I would opt out for using PowerView for creating easy-to-use dashboards. That will allow you to easily manage users as well. Creating 10 duplicated Excel files can be quite time-consuming and updating them manually would be not a smart way to go since you have SharePoint & Office 2013 functionality available.
See this post with detailed instructions how to use PowerView dashboards.
Hi All,
I need to generate some reports (bar graphs, pie charts etc) using
Performance Point Service in SharePoint 2010. I am able to generate
reports.
I am facing issue when I am supposed to do some calculation and then
show values in these charts e.g.) get marks1 and marks2 and show
division(marks1/marks2) as one axis on graph.
As we create these graphs we don't a provision of doing
calculations(We have measure and dimension to drag and drop).
Please guide.
Vikrant Raj Behal
It sounds like you need to have some columns in a PerformancePoint chart that need to be dynamically calculated.
This is not possible with PerformancePoint charts using the drag and drop capabilities. Depending on your needs you may be able to do some calculations or aggregates if you edit the MDX Query itself. However this may limit your drill down ability.
The other option is to do those calculations inside of your cube in the form of a calculated measure, then you could use the drag and drop functionality.
Here is link to someone on technet whom asked a similar question
I have a report that is run on SSRS and the numbers / everything looks good. I have the data in a table w/ some grouping / drilldown capability.
My issue is that when I export to Excel, and I open up my groups....there is an extra line! My summary data is the same from SSRS, but now it looks wrong because there is an extra row.
Regardless of what is in the database....shouldn't the results always be the same? Has anyone ever encountered this before?
I am using SSRS 2008R2
The results may not always be the same because the rendering extension was not created to cover many different situations and reporting designs.
However, with your situation, make sure you have no overlapping controls, rows, other text-boxes etc.
We can implement drilldown report using grouping feature of SSRS 2008, where we just give SSRS filtered data and group expression and rest is done by SSRS, great. Our problem is that we have very large data even after giving filter, so it takes lot of time for SSRS to get data and group it. What can be ideal situation is that we have opportunity to really implement drill down, i mean when user expand group level 1 , group level 2 data is fetched from DB by SSRS and rendered and delivered to client.
We tried with subreports but then again it preloads data. and we have to provide up to 8 levels of drill down.
Any suggestion how to do it in SSRS 2008 is welcomed, any alternative approach suggestion is welcomed as well.
Try using the "Link to Report" feature in one of your columns. This way you can create a summary report, and then fire off another report when the user clicks the columns row data. The drill down report can accept a parameter from the main report to determine what data should display.