I am working on a sample project in Power BI Report Builder. (I couldn't tag it as such because apparently I'm not allowed to create my own tags on this website.) The measure I am going for in my data cube is called Direct_Claim_Deductible_Recoverable_End_of_Year, but we will call it "Deductible" because that's too long a name to type out every time. I am trying to divide it up by the fields of State, City, and Year.
The Category column tells you whether each row is for a state or a city within that state. The Year and Location columns tell you the year and location that the row is telling you about. The Deductible column shows that measure. The Pct% column formula is Deductible - Total. (I added the Total column because I was having trouble with the Pct% column and wanted to know what was going on.)
Here's where the problem begins.
The Total column is supposed to tell me what the total deductible is for that specific year. But instead, it just gives me the grand total for all years in the cube. I've run the report enough times to know that this number is $99,669.71.
Here is the formula I am using for the Total column:
=round(Sum(Fields!Direct_Claim_Deductible_Recoverable_End_Of_Year.Value),2)
The Pct% column is giving me wrong answers too, but it is based on the Total column, so fixing the Total column should also fix the Pct% column.
And the data bar is supposed to show me what percent of the total for that year is in that state's row, or what percent of the total for that state is in that city's row. Instead it gives me an error message saying I am missing a closing parenthesis ')' somewhere:
The Maximum expression for the chart 'DataBar2' contains an error: [BC30198] ')' expected.
Here is the code I used:
=(Sum(Fields!Direct_Claim_Deductible_Recoverable_End_Of_Year.Value) / (Sum(Fields!Direct_Claim_Deductible_Recoverable_End_Of_Year.Value), "StateDS"))
As you can see, all three sets of parentheses are opened and closed.
I did figure out that if I move all the parentheses to the end, like so:
=(Sum(Fields!Direct_Claim_Deductible_Recoverable_End_Of_Year.Value) / (Sum(Fields!Direct_Claim_Deductible_Recoverable_End_Of_Year.Value, "StateDS")))
I resolve that error message but get a different one:
The ValueAxis_Primary.Maximum expression for the chart 'DataBar2' has a nested aggregate that specifies a dataset scope. Inner aggregates cannot specify a dataset scope.
It seems to be telling me that I cannot have the denominator of the fraction for the City data bar specify that its scope is the dataset "StateDS", which is the dataset that aggregates by State alone. But I am confused. I don't understand why that would be. And I don't understand what I need to do to make it aggregate by state anyway.
Thank you.
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I am working with RDLC report, where I have a very specific customer requirement to print a summary at the end of Report.
Please refer to image below for clear understanding:
Report summary is generated based on two Groups: Resource (No), and Task Wage Type.
1st tablix group = No.
2nd tablix group = Task Wage Type.
I need to generate an average per resource where:
Average = Total Cost / Quantity (where Task Wage Type = Hourly Task Wage)
So, I am working on extracting the value for Quantity where Task Wage Type = Hourly Task Wage and show it in Total Column for each group.
How can I achieve this?
Currently I have written this expression to achieve results, but its throwing an error as shown in picture above
=Sum(CDec(Fields!Total_Cost.Value), "Resource_No1")/Sum(IIF(UCase(Fields!WT_TaskWageType.Value)="HOURLY TASK WAGE", CDec(Fields!Quantity.Value), 1), "Resource_No1")
Finally my RDLC tablix image is shown below where I have two groups
How to resolve this error?
I can't see too much wrong with your expression so I would try to simplify things and build each part of the expression up until you get an error.
Two points though...
You should not need to specify the scope "Resource_No1" as it appears that the textbox is already within the correct scope (it's in he Resource_No1 group's rows).
Also, you appear to be adding 1 into your sum amount when the task wage type does not match your criteria. You should use 0 or nothing there instead I guess.
You could just try this to start with and then if that does not work, build up each part of the expression slowly.
=Sum(Fields!Total_Cost.Value)
/
Sum(IIF(UCase(Fields!WT_TaskWageType.Value)="HOURLY TASK WAGE",
Fields!Quantity.Value,
Nothing)
)
If you still get errors, try returning just the second part of the expression and see what you get.
I just tried this on a similar setup and it worked as expected.
First post in stackoverflow - so forgive me if I don't get this right. I have an SSRS report with a matrix which groups Quantity, Total Spend and Average Cost by part number for each year. Part Number and description down the left and the the years along the top. I want to add a delta column in each year after the first year which shows the change in price from the previous year. I have seen examples of how to get the difference between first and last year - but not the difference between each year and the previous one. I have hidden the delta column for the first year - no would love some guidance on how to calculate the difference in cost.
So from the image below the first row in the delta column under FY2019 would show -€0.01 as price has reduced from 0.59 to 0.58.
You haven't explained how if Avg. Cost is calculated in your report but I'm assumming it's just something like =SUM(Fields!Spend.Value) / SUM(Fields!Qty.Value)
You've not shown your report design so I can't tell what your row/column groups are called but I'll assume you have rowgroup by Part and one by Year. Let's assume your column group name is PeriodID so it's the same as my demo report.
In this case you can use the PREVIOUS() function to get the previous values to compare against.
I set up a similar report to demonstrate. As you can see in my case the year column is grouped using a columngroup called PeriodID
The expressions highlighted are as follows.
Price. This is just Cost/Qty =SUM(Fields!Cost.Value)/SUM(Fields!Qty.Value)
lastprice. This is just for illustration and debugging. It uses the PREVIOUS() fucntion to get the previous year's data
=Previous(Sum(Fields!Cost.Value), "PeriodID") / Previous(Sum(Fields!Qty.Value), "PeriodID")
Note that "PeriodID" is the name of the column group (case sensitive). This is scope for the previous function so it know to get data from the previous column group.
delta. This is the final output. It's just the current "Price" expression minus the "lastprice" expression.
=(Sum(Fields!Cost.Value) / Sum(Fields!Qty.Value)) - (Previous(Sum(Fields!Cost.Value), "PeriodID") / Previous(Sum(Fields!Qty.Value), "PeriodID"))
The final output looks like this (I've not hidden the column for the first column group or hidden last price, just so you can see it working). Also, if you see slight differences in the delta column compared to what you might expect, it's just down to the fact that the numbers are formatted to 2 decimals but my test data is up to 14 decimals.
I am just starting out in SSRS and have a dataset that looks like the below.
I have built this in a matrix table like so
I want to show what percentage each of the rows total is of the grand total, so for the attached image I would want to show what percentage 35 (counselling calls) is of 47 (total) and what percentage Legal calls (12) is of total (47)
I have tried =Fields!Calls.Value/sum(Fields!Calls.Value) but that just gives me 100% for both?
Would appreciate any help
You need to specify the scope of your SUM() expressions.
I'll briefly explain how scopes work and then get to the answer.
SSRS always evaluates an expression based on it's scope which is usually defined by the physical location of the expression within table/matrix. As you can see from your design all 4 textboxes show the same expression, [SUM(Calls}] which in fact is actually =SUM(Fields!Calls.Value). However they give different results because the scope of each is different. The first is in the category rowgroup and the month column group for example, the second one is in the category row group but in the total month group, and so on...
OK, now to the answer !
Assumming
your rowgroup is called 'CategoryGroup` (you will see the name in the rowgroup panel under the main designer)
your dataset is called DataSet1
You expression should be
=SUM(Fields!Calls.Value, "CategoryGroup") / SUM(Fields!Calls.Value, "DataSet1")
This basically reads..
Take the sum of the call column for all rows that are within the current CategoryRowgroup and divide by the sum of the call column across the whole dataset.
Notes
The scope names must be enclosed in quote and are case sensitive
The scope names must match either a row or column group, or a dataset name exactly.
the , "CategoryGroup" scope argument can probably be omitted as this should be the scope of the textbox anyway.
I am somewhat new to SSRS and I have built a matrix report that looks fairly simple:
Supplier [AccDate]
[SupplierName] Sum(PurchasingCredit)
Total <<Expr>>
The actual report shows month-by-month sales data for a year in addition to Current YTD and Previous YTD columns (joined via UNION clause in base query) in addition to a column showing Year-over-Year % as difference between the Current YTD and Previous YTD columns (also joined via union).
I was able to apply a dynamic format to the Year-over-Year column using the following expression in the Format property to show the YOY column as a percentage and the others as dollar amounts:
=IIF(Fields!AccDate.Value <> "YOY", "'$' #,0.00;'$' -#,0.00", "#,0.00 %;-#,0.00 %")
The last thing I need to do is to show the column totals, which are working for each column with the exception of the year-over-year percentages using the following:
=IIF(Fields!AccDate.Value <> "YOY", SUM(Fields!PurchasingCredit.Value), 0)
In the year-over-year (YOY) column, a sum of percentages doesn't make sense: I need it to recalculate this value based on the sums of the "CYTD" and "PYTD" columns, but I can't seem to figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am guessing it is probably an application of scope, but the MS articles that attempt to explain this are very confusing.
My application uses SSRS to produce payslips for employees. The Payslip report consists of a tablix with 5 columns. Among the 5, is a column called "Units" and another called "Invoice value".
The report has several Row Grouping levels, but the only important one for this question is the Payslip Number Row Grouping "RG_SlipNum". There is a page break after each "RG_SlipNum" RowGroup.
When users want to print Payslips, they can optionally supply up to 5 parameters which filter the result set to print out.
Employees can be paid based on the number of units delivered * a rate (Unit Based), or by a percentage of the invoice value (Invoice based) for the delivery (Oversimplified, but hopefully, you get my drift).
If the employee is Unit based I want the Units Column to Show, and the "Invoice Value" Column to be hidden. If they are Invoice based I want both columns to show.
My dataset has a bit field indicating whether to show or hide a column based on the logic above. It will be a 1 or a 0 for every underlying row within the current rowGroup. I have tried to use the First(,) function in a Column Visibility expression on the "Invoice Value" Column. However, I get the following error whenever I try to limit the scope of the First Function to the current Payslip Rowgroup using the RowGroup name.
"The Hidden expression for the tablix 'X' has a scope parameter that is not valid for an aggregate function. The scope parameter must be set to a string constant that is equal to either the name of a containing group, the name of a containing data region, or the name of a dataset. "
So, my Question(s)
Can you define a RowGroup name as the Scope argument in a First() function?
If not, What's the best way of achieving this without completely re-working my Dataset / RDL to accomplish this. (Using SSRS2008)
Why is it always just after posting a forum question, you figure it (or some workaround) out?
I'd still like some (better) answers if anyone sees this, but I've set a cell in the tablix to the value of the bit field that determines whether to show the column or not. I then changed my Column Visibility expression to check the cell value (using ReportItems!textboxname.Value) and it's working. as I scroll the payslips the columns visibility changes appropriately.