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  • 1.  Job Cost and Crystal

    Posted 11-01-2020 16:06
    Trying to recreate some reports from 2016 into 2020 and the JTD field is kicking my ass when the client has more than one subcontractor doing work in the same cost code.

    If I only link the JC_JobCostCodeDetail file (need it for the Estimate) to the JC_JobCostCodeHistory file by the Job/Cost Code/Cost Type, I get multiples of the subcontractor totals (if 2 subcontractor works, I get twice as much, if 3 worked I would get 3 times as much) and if I link the vendor fields, I get nothing EXCEPT the subcontractor information on the report.

    I've tried adding another group by Vendor, or Vendor+Year+Period, but again, if the vendors worked in the same period - I'm still back where I started.

    I'm sure I'm missing something easy that will make these last 4 reports suddenly convert a whole lot easier, but right at this moment, I'd ready to throw something breakable against the wall.

    I know as a last resort on this report I could do subreports, but one of the other reports I have left does some percentage stuff that makes subreports impossible.

    Any suggestions will be warmly appreciated.  :-)

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    Beth Bowers
    Mom to Samson, Peanut, ChiChi, Canton, Cagney and Daisy (NO Oxford comma - shriek!)
    Beth Bowers
    269-445-1625
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  • 2.  RE: Job Cost and Crystal

    Posted 11-01-2020 17:10
    Maybe try Report Options, Select Distinct Records, or Select Distinct Records for Browsing.

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    Doug Higgs
    Midwest Commerce Solutions, Inc
    (312) 315-0960
    Assistant to the Traveling Secretary
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  • 3.  RE: Job Cost and Crystal

    Posted 11-02-2020 06:29
    @Doug Higgs​ - got all excited about something new to try, but got an error when I did that my Order By had too many columns.  Drat.

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    Beth Bowers
    Mom to Samson, Peanut, ChiChi, Canton, Cagney and Daisy (NO Oxford comma - shriek!)
    Beth Bowers
    269-445-1625
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  • 4.  RE: Job Cost and Crystal

    Posted 11-02-2020 14:22
    If you're trying to get Cost and Units from the JC_JobCostCodeHistory file, maybe dump that file and link JC_JobCostCodeDetail to the JC_JobDailyTransactions file instead. The JC_JobCostCodeHistory looks like a "bucket" file by year and period, so it will be hard to avoid multiplying the bucket total fields when linking to detail level files.

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    Chris St. Amand
    Arizona Accounting & Information Systems
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  • 5.  RE: Job Cost and Crystal

    Posted 11-02-2020 14:39
    @Chris St. Amand - I thought about that, but feared it would do the same thing, since there is still a Vendor field in the key in that file.  :-(​

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    Beth Bowers
    Mom to Samson, Peanut, ChiChi, Canton, Cagney and Daisy (NO Oxford comma - shriek!)
    Beth Bowers
    269-445-1625
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  • 6.  RE: Job Cost and Crystal

    Posted 02-23-2021 05:14
    I'm suffering through the same thing.  Job Cost could have been so much better than it is.  Why are all the details in the Comment field of JC_JobHistoryTransDetail.  So much info that it's a pain in the tush to get to.  They had the time, space and opportunity but missed the mark by miles.

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    Annette Egbert
    Acuity Solutions, LLC
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  • 7.  RE: Job Cost and Crystal

    Posted 02-23-2021 07:38
    It is my understanding that the subcontractor who did the rewrite asked Sage numerous times about improving the code.  And they were told every time to do what they were asked and not worry about making it better.  Talk about making us bitter!!!  Tom and Huck did a much better job whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence than Sage did with this.

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    Jeff Schwenk
    FORMER 90M Board Member
    Bottomline Software, Inc.
    Waynesboro VA
    540-221-4444
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