RE: MR - This report view contains no data (Post CU12 Update)
Hi Nicole,
I don't know if you ever solved your problem with the MR empty data reports.. but I ran into an issue today where I had almost identical Income statements produce completely different output. Each report definition had its own row & column definition (no tree used). The 1st report returns several pages of data against the GL in one company. The other report returns the infamous "This report view contains no data" message.. Looking more closely at the row definition first, I found that aside of a few sub-totals here and there, they looked almost identical, so it couldn't be there. Next came the column definition and here again, they looked pretty much identical, the only noticeable difference being the column width where the 2nd one was set to 'AutoFit' for most columns (4 out of 6), whereas the 1st report (the working one) had fixed sizes for 5 out of 6.
As I had looked everywhere for other differences and couldn't find any, I was almost giving up after >2 hrs of testing, when I tried to switch the row & columns defs in the second report for the ones from the 1st report.. and low & behold after switching the column def I finally got 46 pages of data on my report.. Now you may ask why ? I have no logical answer to this.. but for sure MR needs some tools to 'check-links' validity of the definitions..
Below are the 2 column definitions to compare (the 1st one not working) :
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Current Year |
Prior Year |
$ Variance |
% Variance |
ACCT |
DESC |
FD |
FD |
CALC |
CALC |
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ACTUAL |
ACTUAL |
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BASE |
BASE-1 |
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1:BASE |
1:BASE |
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PERIODIC |
PERIODIC |
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C-D |
C/D |
55 |
30 |
AutoFit |
AutoFit |
AutoFit |
AutoFit |
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0.00%;(###0.00%) |
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Current Year |
Prior Year |
$ Variance |
% Variance |
ACCT |
DESC |
FD |
FD |
CALC |
CALC |
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ACTUAL |
Actual |
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BASE |
BASE-1 |
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1:BASE |
1:BASE |
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PERIODIC |
PERIODIC |
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C-D |
C/D |
AutoFit |
30 |
14 |
14 |
14 |
14 |
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###0.00%;(###0.00%) |
As you can see, aside of the width settings and the format/currency override, there is not much differences..
But after I copied the current working settings from column defs 2 over the non-working ones, my report started to generate properly output..
It is to be noticed that the company doesn't use the Data Mart, but still works with the Legacy connector and is with the latest CU15.