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  • 1.  Problem with multiple singletons or repeaters

    Posted Mon June 12, 2023 07:56 AM

    I am trying to create a report in Cognos where most of the report is textual, and I  want to automatize it and  to show a several values using singletons. One query calculation is like: if (DateItem is >0) then ('increasing')  else ('decreasing'). The problem occurs when I am using several these calculations with other Members (but Year always), so the singleton returns the value from the first calculation for all the others. I was trying with Solve Order, but it was the same.

    Then I used Repeater, which for the first calculation worked correct, but for the next one returned the same value for the Repeater1.

    I know that creating new Query for every new singleton will solve problem, but since I have a lot of  these calculations and already several queries, that is not so viable option for me.

    Any suggestion will be helpful.

    Thanks



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    Veljko
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  • 2.  RE: Problem with multiple singletons or repeaters

    Posted Mon June 12, 2023 11:24 AM

    Hi Veljko,

    the Singleton is not the appropriate data container for your approach if you have individual data queries as it does not support "Master-detail-relationships" which would be mandatory for the Repeater to compute the right value at each iteration.

    If you can't compute all values in one query, I suggest to use the crosstab or list data container, link them with Master-detail-relationships to your main query and drop all classes from the objects there and/or set rows/columns/corner to Box type = None. The crosstab will then look like plain text.

    Here's a repeater that repeats a table with Singletons and a crosstab:



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  • 3.  RE: Problem with multiple singletons or repeaters

    Posted Tue June 13, 2023 08:42 AM

    Thank you it works great, even without Master detail.



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