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Problem with Total Value on a 2-band report
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15/12/2006 20:05:11
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01178103
Message ID:
01178226
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>>>You didn't, perchance, sum the variable in two places? In the report variable, and in the expression field.
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>>>If you did that, you must check "Sum" only in one of those two places.
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>>No. I can see it is very simply the fact that VFP "counts" every record, even those that don't have the field that need to be summarized. The only solution I can think of, so far, is to create a third cursor (outside of the report) and use fields of this cursor to show totals. But this is, IMO, kludgy. I would be surprised if VFPT didn't think of this. So I hope I am missing something simple and maybe someone will point me in the right direction.
>>
>>Thank you.
>
>I didn't work yet with multiple detail bands, so I may be way off-track.
>
>However, I have seen that conditionally adding a value often helps:
>
>The expression in the report variable might be iif(SomeCondition, 1, 0) if you want to count, or iif(SomeCondition, SomeValue, 0) if you want to sum.

Hilmar,

This is an excellent suggestion. I will test it now.

Thank you very much.
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