Peter

It sounds like you need a portal.  I recently saw some examples of reports
using portals.  Very effective.

Hope this helps
Bruce
On Jun 25, 2011 8:12 AM, "Peter Buchanan" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Our shipping dept tracks containers on Filemaker. Each container has a
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> master record, which includes fields for:
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> - container number (unique identifier)
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> - location (physical location, port name, unlimited number of
> locations,
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> each with unique code)
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> - type (about 15 different types (ie size), each with a unique code)
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> I already have a report which summarises by location, then by type, and
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> shows only the total number against each type, and totals by locations.
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> Works fine.
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> However, the shipping guys want a report in the following
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> 'spreadsheet-type' format :
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> Rows down the left hand side :
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> Location 1
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> Location 2
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> Location 3
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> etc with totals end of each row
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> Columns across the top :
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> Type A
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> Type B
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> Type C
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> etc with totals at bottom of each column
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> (They require only the totals per location/type)
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> I have started by extracting all the records into a new table, with just
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> the above 3 fields for each record.
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> Now I need some ideas, please.
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> Rgds
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> Peter
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