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Hi all,

I have data appearing as follows:
Service Type      Geographical Grouping   
SMS                          National
SMS                          International
SMS                          Roaming
MMS                          Visitor
MMS                        International
MMS                              National
Outpayments              International   
Outpayments              National

Now I would like to see SMSs only under National Geographical grouping,MMSs under all Geographical groupings and Outpayments only under National Geographical grouping.
Now,filtering on National Geographical grouping will be incorrect since I would like to see National MMSs.
So how do I filter on National such that its tied to only SMS and Outpayments Service Types?

Thanks\Regards

Taboka

Concatenate your Service Type and Geographical Grouping and filter on the concatenated value, or, if your filter is a permanent requirement, construct a single filter in the format:
((([ST]='SMS' or [ST]='Outpayments') and [GG]=National)) or ([ST]='MMS'))

where ST and GG are your data items.  Change the last part to...

or ([ST] not in ('SMS','Outpayments'))

...if you want to allow for additional STs without a GG filter

Hi,
Thanks for the response,what I evetually did was to create a data item which contained a case statement besad on the items I wanted to see.I then filtered based on that data item and it worked.But for interest sake I'l try concatenation as you've suggested.

Thanks\Regards

Taboka