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IBM Cognos 10 Platform => Cognos 10 BI => Report Studio => Topic started by: ry1633 on 04 May 2015 11:00:13 AM

Title: How to summarize and total an alphanumeric column?
Post by: ry1633 on 04 May 2015 11:00:13 AM
I'm working on a report project in Report Studio where I need to summarize and make totals of a non-numeric column.  How do I do that?  The column in question is a "Category" with alphanumeric text and data in it.      I need to summarize and total each Category.    I have them grouped correctly in Report Studio, but I can't get them to total up for each one.    I try to click Summarize but the "Total" option is grayed-out.
Title: Re: How to summarize and total an alphanumeric column?
Post by: ry1633 on 04 May 2015 04:19:40 PM
I think I got it to work - or at least very close.  By playing around with the list of footers, adding a count of the Category to the middle list footers, and then adding at TOTAL summary to the bottom-most footer of the report