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    Sorting on Totals in Report

    Sample database attached. I can total up the sales by Company, but I'd like to Sort the report by those totals. (So that the company with highest sales is first, etc.)

    How can I do this?

    #2
    Re: Sorting on Totals in Report

    Tom

    See attached.

    Regards,

    Jeff

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      #3
      Re: Sorting on Totals in Report

      Jeff won't that just sort on the Sales Amount and not the Total of the Sales?

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        #4
        Re: Sorting on Totals in Report

        Oops, I slightly misread your post.

        What I mentioned won't get you want you want.

        I need to go play with your example.

        Sorry for the confusion....

        Jeff

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          #5
          Re: Sorting on Totals in Report

          Tom

          I am now at a loss. I thought I could just go into Group Properties and set the order to the calculated field but I get an error when I try to save it. See attached.

          Maybe one of the more experienced folks around here can help out.

          Regards,

          Jeff

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            #6
            Re: Sorting on Totals in Report

            If you make the calculated field a table field, probably with a dbsum() epression, and force the field to be recalculated before the report is printed then you should be able to sort on it.

            What you are asking Alpha to do currently is to

            look at all the records in the table and decide which ones are to be included
            look at all the records to be included and compute a total sales by company
            next order the records by that total and by company
            then start processing the records into groups and imaging the report


            What Alpha does

            look at all the records in the table and decide which ones are to be included
            group those records by company
            start with the first company
            compute any summary calculations - for that group
            record by record compute any calculated fields
            image the report
            There can be only one.

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              #7
              Re: Sorting on Totals in Report

              Done.

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                #8
                Re: Sorting on Totals in Report

                G, thanks for that. I haven't used an expression to set the group ordering before. Using dbSum() to define the order of the groups was very clever. -- tom

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                  #9
                  Re: Sorting on Totals in Report

                  "Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

                  This is my one day of being genius, from now on, you should expect a lot of stupidity!

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                    #10
                    Re: Sorting on Totals in Report

                    G.

                    I'll second what Tom said. NICE!

                    Jeff

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                      #11
                      Re: Sorting on Totals in Report

                      I know this is an old thread, but I am currently trying to sort a parent-child report in a "column total" order, and even after using Gabriel's expression within my group break, it's still not working.

                      I'm trying to sort the report by the "FIRE" field in a descending order. The first picture shows how the report is ordered normally, which is by Member Name & ID Number. (The member's names have been blocked out.)

                      The second picture shows how it displays when I use the following expression:

                      dbsum("apparatus","Sum",Systemid,"Apparatus->Fire_Cnt")

                      (Apparatus is the table name, SystemID is the Member's ID Number in the parent table, and Apparatus->Fire_Cnt is a field in the Apparatus table that counts "1" for each incident.)

                      The goal here is to display the firefighters with the highest number of FIRE runs starting at top, and working down to 0, but I can never seem to make that happen.

                      What am I doing wrong??
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                      Sergeant Richard Hartnett
                      Hyattsville City Police Department
                      Maryland

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