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Applying Mutiple Filters

Started by knip, 06 May 2015 11:12:44 PM

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knip

Hi Guys,
            I have a report where in i need to filter my data based on the different conditions, can this be possible in cognos? .. For example given below
When i select A from filter1 and B from Filter2 i have to filter my data with values >10
When i select  C from filter1 and D from Filter2 i have to filter my data with values >20

this is just an example i will be having around 100's of such combinations with different values   .... can this all be done in a single run of the report?

Example:

Filter1 Filter2    Value

A          B           10

C          D           20

........
....
........
.........

BigChris

It can be done, but you'll need to specify all of the combinations:

(?Prompt1? = 'A' and ?Prompt2? = 'B' and [Value] >10) or (?Prompt1 = 'C' and ?Prompt2? = 'D' and [Value] > 20) or ...

You might be able to group some of the options together to make things a bit easier, but you're still going to need to work them all out. Could you do something further back in the model, or even in the database, to identify the data/combination that you want to filter on?

knip

the combinations mentioned will be static and  the values entered will be dynamic (user can change the values in next run)

bvk.cognoise

Hi Knip,,

Could you please elaborate your requirement

what does the "the values entered will be dynamic" means.


Regards
Bvk

Regards
BVK

BigChris

Rereading that suggests that you'd need something like

([Field1] = 'A' and [Field2] = 'B' and [Value] > ?Prompt_Value_1?) or
([Field1] = 'C' and [Field2] = 'D' and [Value] > ?Prompt_Value_2?) or ...