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Re: Combine Summary Reports

You will need to have a table of Weeks where the key field is the date that represents the Sunday of the week.  Use Excel to load up all the Sundays for say the next 10 years.  Set the Key field to be the date field.

Then make a relationship where One Sunday has many  Employee Leaves.  Let it create a field for Related Week, but then edit that field to make it a formula field 

FirstDateOfWeek([my date field])

Then make summary fields on the Relationship to summarize up to Weeks the various fields you need to sum from  Employe Leaves.


Repeat the process from the other table, Active Directory.  Then you will be able to do your calculations on the weeks table.


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  • WilliamCundiff's avatar
    WilliamCundiff
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    Thanks, Mark! I did everything as instructed for the first table. When i tried to add summary fields to the first relationship i received the following:

    We are sorry -- at this time, you cannot create a summary field using a relationship where the reference field is this type of formula field. Please visit our limits page (https://lamresearch.quickbase.com/db/main?act=dohelp&page=quickbase_limits) or contact Care for more information.

    Any idea how to get around this?

    Best,
    William

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    William C
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    • MarkShnier__You's avatar
      MarkShnier__You
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      Can you tell me more about the date field you are using on the child side? is this a data entry field type?  Or a formula field based on Date Created.

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      • WilliamCundiff's avatar
        WilliamCundiff
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        Yes, there is a "Start Date" that is a data entry field

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        William C
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