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Pegasystems Inc.
JP
Last activity: 10 Nov 2015 21:46 EST
Why summary type Report-Definitions are not supported for Repeating Grid? (7.1.9)
I am trying to display the work status count on the portal of manager's dashboard and I found OOTB Report definition Work-.pyOpenCountByStatus returns the data that I wanted.
However, I got below error if I try to use a repeating grid to display the search result of pyOpenCountByStatus.
Pegasystems
IN
Tree grids are meant for summary reports as we aggregate data based on groups.
Pegasystems Inc.
JP
Hi Rajiv,
Thanks for your reply.
I tried "Tree grid" and it did work with "pyOpenCountByStatus" report.
However, I am still couldn't understand why "summary type report" doesn't work well with "Repeating grid".
I performed a test as below, and based on the test result I believe there should be no technical blocker which prevents using summary type report with repeating grid.
1. Define a "Data page" sourced by "pyOpenCountByStatus" report.
2. Source the repeating grid with the data page defined above.
Test result: section rules can be saved without any error, and the section can be rendered with desired search result.
Hi Rajiv,
Thanks for your reply.
I tried "Tree grid" and it did work with "pyOpenCountByStatus" report.
However, I am still couldn't understand why "summary type report" doesn't work well with "Repeating grid".
I performed a test as below, and based on the test result I believe there should be no technical blocker which prevents using summary type report with repeating grid.
1. Define a "Data page" sourced by "pyOpenCountByStatus" report.
2. Source the repeating grid with the data page defined above.
Test result: section rules can be saved without any error, and the section can be rendered with desired search result.
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Pegasystems
IN
If you just need a flat display of summary type report in a grid and not a tree grid, using an intermediate data page is the option you have
Pegasystems Inc.
JP
Yes, I also noticed that I can use data page instead of report definition to display the summary info in a repeat grid.
However, I still don't understand what is the reason behind the limitation of sourcing repeat grid by summary type report definition, which was possible in PRPC v 6.3 SP1.