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Banded Column Colors

restie

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December 11, 2013 at 5:02 pm

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Hi
I have a data set that shows employees, dates, and sales
Employee........Date..............Sales
Raul...............2013-12-01.....100
Raul...............2013-12-02.....150
Raul...............2013-12-07.....350
Jose...............2013-12-01.....150
Jose...............2013-12-05.....100
Jose...............2013-12-06.....50
Pedro.............2013-12-04.....100
Pedro.............2013-12-07.....400
(i dont know how to format a table)
I want a report to look like
..............2013-12-01.....2013-12-02.....2013-12-03.....2013-12-04.....2013-12-05.....2013-12-06.....2013-12-07
Raul........100................150.......................................................................................................350
Jose........150.................................................................................100................50
Pedro.......................................................................100............................................................400
So I have a column group on dates
and I have a row group on employee
I want to be able to color the weekend a different color than the weekdays.
What I've been doing so far is, I have an expression per cell to set the background color. If the day of the week is 1 or 7, color it red, else blue.
The problem I have is that, if I have no data for that day for that person, I can't get the red.
For example, Pedro on 2013-12-01. He has no row/data for that day so that cell wont get colored red.
Any suggestions?

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David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65144 More actions · Answer 1

The value should not matter as you are testing the date for the column.

Please post the expression you are using.

An example would be

=Choose(Weekday(Fields!Date.Value),"Red","Blue","Blue","Blue","Blue","Blue","Red")

Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.

restie SSC Journeyman Points: 78 More actions · Answer 2

I'm using

=iif(Weekday(Fields!Date.Value)=1 OR Weekday(Fields!Date.Value)=7 ,"red", "Blue")

The expression you posted is doing the same thing.

Is there a way I can get the value of the column when I have no data for that cell?

Is there a different way to set the color that affects the entire column instead of doing all the cells individually?

Thanks

David Burrows SSC Guru Points: 65144 More actions · Answer 3

Is there a way I can get the value of the column when I have no data for that cell?

Why?

Because you are using a matrix when you apply fill to the cell it applies to the whole column unless you specifically write the expression to do otherwise.

Is there a way I can get the value of the column when I have no data for that cell?

If the cell has no data then the value will be Nothing, ie =IsNothing(Fields!Sales.Value) will yield true

You can use this in the Fill expression if, for example, you wanted the background to white if no value.

Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
Anon.

ndiro SSC Eights! Points: 892 More actions · Answer 4

Try this:

=IIF(Weekday(ReportItems!HeaderDate.Value) = 1 Or Weekday(ReportItems!HeaderDate.Value) = 7,"Red","Blue")

and remember to change HeaderDate with the textboxId of the columnGroup

Let me now if it works

restie SSC Journeyman Points: 78 More actions · Answer 5

Yup that worked.

Thanks! Now on to next set of problems.