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Suppressing in BIRT.

alecsia

Hello!
I am new to BIRTH, and I guess my question can be very easy, but I need to build a report where cells will be merged dependent on Personal_ID (or Name) of a person, but I donâ€™t need to use a grouping. Manual suppressing of duplicates doesnâ€™t work correctly for me: there can be several, for example, Positions of different people, and it suppresses them all, but I need to suppress only those rows which are connected with one person only. Suppressing works only until it hits the different value in a cell, but I need to limit the merging somehow manually to have something like this (â€œdâ€ different, â€œsâ€ same):
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AGG NAME POSITION HOLIDAY_TYPE HOLIDAY_DAYS DAYS
1. Name(d) Position(d) Holiday_type(s) Holiday_dates(d) Days(d)
Holiday_dates(d) Days(d)
Holiday_dates(d) Days(d)
2. Name(d) Position(s) Holiday_type(s) Holiday_dates(d) Days(s)
Holiday_dates(d) Days(s)
3. Name(d) Position(s) Holiday_type(s) Holiday_dates(d) Days(d)
Holiday_dates(d) Days(d)</pre>
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But with incorrect suppressing it looks like this:
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AGG NAME POSITION HOLIDAY_TYPE HOLIDAY_DAYS DAYS
1. Name(d) Position(d) Holiday_type (s) Holiday_dates(d) Days(d)
Holiday_dates(d) Days(d)
Holiday_dates(d) Days(d)
2. Name(d) Position(s) Holiday_dates(d) Days(s)
Holiday_dates(d)
3. Name(d) Holiday_dates(d) Days(d)
Holiday_dates(d) Days(d)</pre>
I tried to use scripting and play with visibility, probably I do something wrong, but it doesnâ€™t workâ€¦
Thank you in advance!

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micajblock

Can you provide sample data? Easier to build an example.

PaulCooper

What method are you using to suppressing the fields in the first place? Setting the visibility based of the previous record values which are stored in Javascript or Global variables?
 
If so then use the value and variable for the Name field only to set the visibility for all these columns (Name, Poisition and Holiday Type). That should if I have understood you correctly solve the issue.
 
Providing a rptdesign file using say the Classic Models sample data showing the issue would make it easier for us to help.

alecsia

I have stopped at using Drop property, but I kept getting half-blank rows instead of merged ones. Then I tried to use a method of manual suppressing provided by BIRT Guru in his report examples in one old thread. I was initializing variables, adjusting visibility and scripting borders at onCreate. I managed to do this partially, but I have issues with borders, my Top border is absent. Plus, Aggregation doesnâ€™t work the way I want it: I am using Runningcount, and it counts every row, while I need it to count those merged rows as one row. For example, rows 3-4 and 5-6 are those suppressed and should be considered as just one row 3 and 4 respectively. The column Holiday_type is suppressed completely having the same data, but I need to have this data (â€œOcÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð¾Ñ‚Ð¿ÑƒÑÐºâ€) on every row (two if suppressed) dependent on personâ€™s name, but just one timeâ€¦ Columns Period and Days look the way they should, they are not supposed to be suppressed.
 
The example with Classic Models is not very accurate, since it doesnâ€™t have exactly the same data which reflect the issue better. I have made screenshots to illustrate the problem.
 
Scripting I use:
 
Header row, onCreate:
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name="";
position="";
holiday_type="";</pre>
Detail row NAME, onCreate:
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if(name === row["NAME"]){
 this.getStyle().borderBottomStyle = "none";
}</pre>
Visibility property for Name:
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if(name === row["NAME"]){
 true;
}
else{
 name = row["NAME"];
 false;
}</pre>
Detail row POSITION, onCreate:
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if(name === row["NAME"] && position === row["POSITION"]){
 this.getStyle().borderBottomStyle = "none";
}</pre>
Visibility property for Position:
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if(name === row["NAME"] && position === row["POSITION"]){
 true;
}
else{
 position = row["POSITION"];
 false;
}</pre>
Detail row HOLIDAY_TYPE, onCreate:
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if(name === row["NAME"] && position === row["POSITION"] && holiday_type === row["HOLIDAY_TYPE"]){
this.getStyle().borderBottomStyle = "none";
}</pre>
Visibility property for Holiday_type:
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if(name === row["NAME"] && position === row["POSITION"] && holiday_type === row["HOLIDAY_TYPE"]){
true;
}
else{
holiday_type = row["HOLIDAY_TYPE"];
false;
}</pre>

micajblock

Back to the original question. can you do a CSV extract of your data or other sample data so we can build an example.

alecsia

I donâ€™t have installed CSV emitter, I hope it will be ok if I download data in .xls and then save it in .csv. Since the data is are Russian, I translated main columns I need.

micajblock

Please save the file as UTF8. The Russian characters do not come out right. An Excel file is also OK. Also if you can provide sample output what you want it to look like (Excel is OK for this.

alecsia

I hope it will work now! I deleted excessive information, now it looks cleaner; and I am attaching .txt file in UTF-8 too in case .csv wonâ€™t work. Also I have created a sample in Excel of what I have now plus what I want instead. And I have made a screenshot just in case.

micajblock

OK, I think I got it the way you want. What I did:
<ol><li>Create a computed field on the data set that is a unique key with the concatenation of the 3 fields name, position, holiday type.</li>
<li>Grouped by the key.</li>
<li>Put the fields in the group header and set the the Drop property to detail.</li>
<li>Added a group counter for the Number (look at the scripts).</li>
<li>Set all the padding to 0 and placed borders only where I wanted to make sure everything aligns up.</li>
</ol> 
Look at the attached design.

alecsia

Thank you a lot!!! I appreciate your help and patience, it works perfectly!!!

micajblock

You're welcome.

alecsia

mblock, good morning, I hope you can help me again since you are familiar with my report design!
I need to alter my report a bit by adding a group Department. It works perfectly, the only problem is numbersâ€¦ I need counting to start over in every new group, while right now I have this:
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DEPARTMENT1
1
2
3
DEPARTMENT2
4
5
6</pre>
But what I need is:
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DEPARTMENT1
1
2
3
DEPARTMENT2
1
2
3</pre>
Probably I need to use some script, but I am not sure where to begin, and it will be great if I can learn how to do this!

micajblock

see attached example

alecsia

It doesnâ€™t work entirely correctly, it behaves like aggregation, it counts every row in my second group UniqueKey which you created before, that which with merged cellsâ€¦ Although, every department starts with 1 nowâ€¦ It seems it somehow needs to be grouped by UniqueKey Group as it is now, but with some kind of dependency on Department Groupâ€¦

micajblock

I do not understand. In any case the key is when to restart the numbering. That can be done with or without grouping. You can store the 'key' of when you want to restart in a variable same as the counter. If the key changes restart the numbering.

alecsia

I even studied your XML, I donâ€™t see big differences, it seems I do everything you did, but it counts my every row anywayâ€¦
Is there a separate script for defining that â€œkeyâ€? Or you meant scripting with â€œgrpCounterâ€?

micajblock

I am still not sure what is not working attached is a design that renumbers without a grouping in the reports.

alecsia

Good morning!
Thank you a lot for you help again, I used your script, I modified it a bit and made it work, now everything is perfect!