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Hourly Cross-Tab Report

Hello,
I need to create an hourly report regardless if the hour has the data or not.
I'm using a dataset to populate my cross-tab report and using Crystal Reports 10.
I was trying the following formula but it does not give me the correct results.

if Hour ({CrystallDeviceImpressions.PrintStartDate_dt}) = -1 then //no hour in db
    Hour (Time(0,0,0))  // return 0 hour  
else
    Hour ({CrystallDeviceImpressions.PrintStartDate_dt}); // return hour from date

this is the format I need it in:

Hour          Device1             Device2
24                  xxxx               xxxx           Total Impressions
23                  xxxx               xxxx
22                  xxxx               xxxx
...
2                   xxxx                xxxx
1                   xxxx                xxxx

The only best way to show this kinda report would be a cross-tab report correct?
Thanks
kpax
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Yes, you probably want a crosstab.

The problem though is getting the results whether the hour has data or not - regardless of if you use crosstab or not, Crystal won't report off data that isn't there.  In order to do this, you're going to need to add records to your dataset for each hour that is otherwise missing.

If you're doing a "sum" on the total impressions then simply insert a zero value record for each hour - this insures you have the result in your crosstab because the sum of zero will be zero.  If you're doing a "count" then it's a different story because you have to insert the record to make the hour appear but obviously you'll get a count of 1 instead of a count of zero.  

HTH

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frodoman,
Sorry for this late reply.
In your second para you said, insert a zero value record for each hour for the sum, how do I go about doing this? what kinda formula do I use?
I'm simply passing a dataset and the cross-tab report comes out like this :

hour    device1      device2        
8            xxx          xxx         total impressions
9            xxx          xxx
12          xxx          xxx
14          xxx          xxx
23          xxx          xxx

I simply want to put zeros in the report even if it has no data kinda like this..

hour    device1      device2        
1           0               0
2           0               0
...
8            xxx          xxx         total impressions
9            xxx          xxx
12          xxx          xxx
....
23          xxx          xxx
24           0             0

can you help me with a formula that will return zero totals?

Thanks
kpax
How are you populating your dataset now?

Generally speaking what I mean is that you'd have to create a "for x = 1 to 24" type loop.  For each x determine if there is a corresponding record in your dataset.  If not, you'd have to add it to your dataset.  All of this would have to be done before the dataset is passed to Crystal.

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Basically what I have is a DataAdapter that gets passed 2 dates to the sql stmnt which creates the dataset. this dataset is what I use to export my cr report.
In the cr report I use this dataset to create a cross-tab report which has devices listed as columns and (needs) hour time format as rows to get my total impressions report.

so you're saying I should use a for loop before I create the dataset? how do I add to dataset?

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