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Issues with CALC in MR column headers

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This is a simple column format that I have created in Management Reporter.

I am having issues with the CALC in column D. It works fine if the period specified in column D is BASE or BASE-1 ....upto BASE-9. For numbers greater than 9, like BASE-10, column D always displays 0 value. The header displays correctly.

I am not sure how to get this working. Any help is appreciated.

A B C D
header @CalMonthShort @FiscalYear @CalMonthShort @FiscalYear @CalMonthShort @FiscalYear
Column Type DESC FD FD CALC
Book Code ACTUAL PREBR
Fiscal Year BASE BASE BASE
Period BASE-10 BASE-10 BASE-10
Periods Covered PERIODIC PERIODIC
Formula B+C

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    CFROTON Profile Picture
    CFROTON 4,710 on at
    RE: Issues with CALC in MR column headers

    Senior,

    It is a good thing that having "Include amounts in future periods" ON has allowed the Calculation to show for you. However, I tested with a similar Column Definition and found it worked with the future period amount option turned OFF for me.  I apologize in advance that the posting of my Column Definition comes through looking a bit cramped.

    Period=> BASE BASE-1 BASE-2 BASE-3 BASE-4 BASE-5 BASE-6 BASE-7 BASE-8 BASE-9 BASE-10 BASE-11 BASE-11 @CalMonthShort @CalMonthShort
    LedgerID=> 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ACTUAL @fiscalYear @fiscalYear
    Column=> B C D E F G H I J K L M N Col O, B + M Col P, B + N
    DESC FD FD FD FD FD FD FD FD FD FD FD FD FD CALC CALC
    0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ACTUAL
    BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE BASE
    BASE BASE-1 BASE-2 BASE-3 BASE-4 BASE-5 BASE-6 BASE-7 BASE-8 BASE-9 BASE-10 BASE-11 BASE-11 BASE-11 BASE-11
    PERIODIC PERIODIC PERIODIC PERIODIC PERIODIC PERIODIC PERIODIC PERIODIC PERIODIC PERIODIC PERIODIC PERIODIC PERIODIC
    B + M B + N
    AutoFit AutoFit AutoFit AutoFit AutoFit AutoFit AutoFit AutoFit AutoFit AutoFit AutoFit AutoFit AutoFit AutoFit AutoFit AutoFit
    FUNCTIONAL FUNCTIONAL FUNCTIONAL FUNCTIONAL FUNCTIONAL FUNCTIONAL FUNCTIONAL FUNCTIONAL FUNCTIONAL FUNCTIONAL FUNCTIONAL FUNCTIONAL FUNCTIONAL

     
    CONTOSO, LTD:DEMO
     
     
     
     
     
    For the Twelve Months Ending Friday, December 31, 1999
     
     
    BASE
    BASE-1
    BASE-2
    BASE-3
    BASE-4
    BASE-5
    BASE-6
    BASE-7
    BASE-8
    BASE-9
    BASE-10
    BASE-11
    BASE-11
    Jan
    Jan
     
    0000000000
    0000000000
    0000000000
    0000000000
    0000000000
    0000000000
    0000000000
    0000000000
    0000000000
    0000000000
    0000000000
    0000000000
    ACTUAL
    1999
    1999
     
    B
    C
    D
    E
    F
    G
    H
    I
    J
    K
    L
    M
    N
    Col O, B + M
    Col P, B + N
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    All activity being reported, both from my '0000000000' ledger and my 'Actual' ledger is in BAS currency. 199912 is current GL period. I tested with MR CU16 integrated to SL 2018 CU1 databases. I did not use a Reporting Tree and all activity is from my Company '0060' in the SLDemoApp database.

    I cannot explain why you need to have the future amounts option ON for this to work for you, but version differences would be an obvious possibility, though I cannot find a reported issue like this.

    Kindly,

    Kevin MacDonald

    Dynamics SL Support

    Financials Support Team

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Issues with CALC in MR column headers

    Hi Jana,

    Thanks for your help in this matter.

    After much trial and error, I was able to find a solution to the problem - although the solution didn't make any sense,

    In the Report Settings, I checked the box "Include amounts in future periods" and then the report worked.

    My report has only historical data and no data in the future periods ... so I am still not sure how this worked ... BUT IT WORKED !!!

  • CFROTON Profile Picture
    CFROTON 4,710 on at
    RE: Issues with CALC in MR column headers

    I would try a couple things to ‘debug’ the problem.

    First, if you are not printing columns B and C, if those columns are set to non printing, I would remove that flag so the columns print.  If they are just printing column D and it’s 0.00 or blank, how do we know that isn’t correct? Print columns B and C also, which are being added together to get column D.

    Second, I would change the base-10 to just base, and then print the report for the period in question.  As an example, if they are in period 04-2019, and they are trying to print a report for period 06-2018 by using a period value of base-10, can they print a report if they set the reporting period to 06-2018 and just print the report for that period with the period option set to base.  If they can, if they set the period to base-1 and print the report for period 07-2018, see if they get the same results.  Then maybe try it with period 12-2018 and a period of base-7.  Then period 01-2019 with a period of base-8.  All of those should deliver the same results.

    I think though that in this example, if there is no activity for the account for fiscal year 2019, then it might not report the results of a period in fiscal year 2018.  As an example, if you print for period 12-2018 with a period of base-7 and that prints OK.  Then you print for period 01-2019 with a period of base-8 and that reports nothing, I would wonder whether there is any activity for the account for 2019?

    Best Regards,

    Jana MacDonald

    Dynamics support

  • CFROTON Profile Picture
    CFROTON 4,710 on at
    RE: Issues with CALC in MR column headers

    Hello Senior,

    I am researching your issue, I apologize for the delay.

    Best Regards,

    Jana MacDonald

    Microsoft Dynamics SL support

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