> From: "Jeppe Jespersen" <jdj@jdj.dk>
> References: <50E85932-E653-4C37-A096-567C497B9B78@microsoft.com>
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> Subject: Re: Adding subreport values
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:31:32 +0200
> Lines: 87

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>
> Hi Chris, and thanks for replying...
>
> > If all you are doing is returning one value from the sub-report then why
> > use the sub-report at all in the first place?
>
> In short, 'cause i suck. :-( I'll try to explain.
>
> Data is in an Analysis Services database, and MDX is not my strongpoint.
> I was hoping that by splitting my queries into seperate datasources, I
could
> get away with much simpler queries. But, not being able to use data from
> two datasets within a single table control, i figured i could do it with
> subreports.
>
> Imagine a desired report table layout like this. Not the most complex, i
> admit:
>
> Company Last Years Sales Current Sales
> Total
> Adv.Works 10000 4000
> 14000
> Northwind 3200 2000
> 5200
>
> Designing the above query may not be rocket science, but as far as MDX
goes,
> i'm more of a soapbox-car scientist. And not even a good one... :-/
>
> FYI, I do have a time dimension on my datasource.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Jeppe Jespersen
> Denmark
>
>
>
>
> >
> > Secondly, you can't add two sub-reports together. Just because your
> > sub-reports only return one value does not mean that the main report
will
> > see it as such. If you plugged a sub-report in to that area that
returned
> > 40 rows of data and then tried to add those together with another
> > sub-reports output what would you expect to see?
> >
> > So in essence you can't do what you are trying to do since you can't
> > reference the subreport the way you are trying.
> >
> > -------------------------------------
> > Chris Alton, Microsoft Corp.
> > SQL Server Developer Support Engineer
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> > rights.
> > --------------------
> >> Reply-To: "Jeppe Jespersen" <jdj@jdj.dk>
> >> From: "Jeppe Jespersen" <jdj@jdj.dk>
> >> Subject: Adding subreport values
> >> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:41:07 +0200
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> >> I have a _very_ simple table with just one row and three columns.
> >>
> >> The first column of the row contains a subreport that retrieves a
single
> >> value.
> >>
> >> The second column of the row contains a subreport that retrieves a
single
> >> value.
> >>
> >> ...and heres where I lose it... :-)
> >>
> >> The third column should contain the sum of column1 and column2. Period.
> >>
> >> Please help. Thanks :-)
> >>
> >> jdjespersen
> >>
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