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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://forums.method.me/cs/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Method:Classic General Q&amp;amp;A</title><link>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/13.aspx</link><description>Ask technical support questions, how do I? Questions... Or anything else you want to know from the Method Team and other Method users.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 SP2 (Build: 31113.47)</generator><item><title>Re: Complex Queries for a Report</title><link>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/19966.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:53:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3393c1ec-311b-4812-96cb-ad8c611bba4f:19966</guid><dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/19966.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=19966</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="mce_0_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;Hey kenlyle,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Have you worked with our report designer yet? If you go into the report creating action, it will allow you to launch the report designer. The report designer builds off of the customer table, and has other tables as &amp;quot;detail&amp;quot; tables -- i.e&lt;span id="mce_8_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; the invoice table, contacts, etc. It sounds to me like all of the things you&amp;#39;re trying to add to the report can be accomplished through the report designer and fields that already exist in the table. &lt;span id="mce_6_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_7_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;You can read up on o&lt;span id="mce_9_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="mce_10_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;ur&lt;span id="mce_10_end" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span id="mce_17_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.methodintegration.com/method/kb.aspx?folder=methodcrm&amp;amp;article=Report-Designer&amp;amp;id=271" target="_blank"&gt;h&lt;span id="mce_16_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="mce_11_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="mce_12_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_13_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="mce_14_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_15_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;elp&lt;span id="mce_14_end" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_15_end" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; center article&lt;span id="mce_12_end" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_13_end" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_17_end" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for the report designer to learn more about it -- it&amp;#39;s pretty straightforward once you start using it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="mce_6_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="mce_1_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_2_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="mce_1_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_2_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The only one&amp;nbsp;&lt;span id="mce_1_end" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_2_end" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;that may be tricky is the &amp;quot;Monthly fee Invoicing/subscription date&amp;quot; -- can you expand on what you&amp;#39;re trying to do with that?&amp;nbsp;&lt;span id="mce_4_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_5_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;span id="mce_3_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Naeem&lt;span id="mce_21_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Complex Queries for a Report</title><link>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/19955.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 01:16:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">3393c1ec-311b-4812-96cb-ad8c611bba4f:19955</guid><dc:creator>kenlyle</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/thread/19955.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://forums.method.me/cs/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=13&amp;PostID=19955</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="mce_0_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;I am being asked for a &amp;quot;Customer&amp;quot; report including:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span id="mce_0_start" style="overflow:hidden;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Alternate contacts (email addresses) List&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Monthly fee Invoicing/subscription date - A complex query/join to the InvoiceLines table? Pseudocode maybe like: DayofMonth(Max(TxnDate)) where InvoiceLine like &amp;quot;*Monthly*Fee*&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Items Owned - A list of items from a custom table.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Sign up date - Probably the minimum invoice date for the customer. &amp;nbsp;Can I also use conversion date?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Open cases/closed cases&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;The lists should probably be comma separated lists, so that they can display on one line. &amp;nbsp;Or maybe they can be sub-reports, like in Access?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Any advice is appreciated.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Thanks!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>