I have a report that list shop order detail information. In the erp system there is a section to add up to 5 line items of notes for each shop order. In the cognos report individual columns for each note have been added. If there is a shop order that has 3 notes attached, it shows me 3 lines of the detail on the cognos report with one note field filled in on each line. See attachment. I want to just have one line show up with the details and the three columns filled in on the same line. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Group the report at the key level, with subgroups and set the group span to the proper level. The group span (in the properties of a list column) will eliminate duplicate display.
A better way is to concatinate the notes together in a single data item (using a null catch on each one), and only display 'Note'
The data item would look something like this: {Note_All)
if([Note 1] is not null) then ([Note 1]) else ( ' ' ) +
if([Note 2] is not null) then ([Note 2]) else (' ' ) + .....
So if there is no note, you'd end up with 5 spaces. You can reference this data item with another data item calling it like this:
(Note)
trim([Note_All])
that would remove the whitespace. Use this main note in the report as a note column, without pulling in the other note columns.