I have a rather simple problem that I haven't managed to workout for myself despite many hours of searching the web.
I have a report containing timestamped data from a few thousand devices (loggers), to present the data in a sensible manner, I set up two groups in the report; Loggers and Timestamp so the data first grouped by logger id and then by timestamp which is working fine
Group 1 Logger 1
Group 2 Timestamp 01/08/2012
Data...
Data...
Data...
Group 2 Timestamp 02/08/2012
Data...
Data...
Group 1 Logger 2
Group 2 Timestamp 01/08/2012
Data...
Data...
Data...
Now the data (detail) fields are hidden from the user and I only want to display the header for group-2 if there are 4 or more records in each group-2. To achieve this I have used the following suppression formula on group-2
Count ({GMAC_spDg2Report;1.tTimeStamp}, {GMAC_spDg2Report;1.tTimeStamp}, "daily") < 4
The trick is that there are certain level 1 groups where all group-2 headers are suppressed and where this is the case, I want to hide the group-1 header as well. Using the same suppression formula as group-2 in group 1 did not yield the desired result. I have also tried to use a running total (called {#Count Unsupressed Days}) in the group-1 footer with a distinct count and the formula below being reset on each group-1
Count ({GMAC_spDg2Report;1.strLogger}, {GMAC_spDg2Report;1.tTimeStamp}, "daily") > 4
The running total works perfectly, returning a 1 in group-1 footer if the group has sub groups that are not suppressed and 0 if all group-2 headers are suppressed.
So here is the CHALLENGE, I cannot seem to apply a suppression rule in the header of group-1 using the output from the running total. To demonstrate the problem I created a formula field containing only the output from the running total and placed this in the group-1 header. The results are confusing to say the least... the formula field does not show the same value as the running total and hence the suppression rule is not working.
I hope this makes some kind of sense... I feel like I have tried everything