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Qrew Member

5 years ago

4 weekly inputs = 1 monthly amount

I have weekly inputs on a table for 8 different fields. I need to be able to sum each field each month and use that in other formulas. This will be ongoing so I need the summation to be by month & ye...

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Qrew Commander

5 years ago

Rhonda,

The simplest way to summarize in Quick Base is from a child table to a parent table. How is the data above related to other business objects?

Here is one potential architecture

Now you can create a Summary Field in the Machine Table

Here is an example where we are going to count the number of vibration incidents

You build out the rest of the information you need the same way for the other data fields in your Machine Inspection table.

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Don Larson
Paasporter
Westlake OH
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RhondaParriet
Qrew Member
5 years ago
The fields need to be summed based on the month. Each of these "summed" fields are used in calculations to create a stacked bar chart showing values month over month for a specific machine.
I have one table with machines
---fields are department, machine
one table with the fields that are calculated by month.
Fields include machine, month, year, and the several formula fields
ex total breakdown/minutes ran
total quality / minutes ran
stop/minutes ran
The three above fields added together to make another field
In total there are 24 formula fields based on the input fields.
A third table will have these weekly inputs.
These fields are date (week-ending), machine, and the input fields
Breakdown, stoppage, quality, setup, tool, minutes ran

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Rhonda Parriet
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- AdamKeever1
  Qrew Commander
  5 years ago
  Add a formula rich text field and create a formula to combine the date and machine like this:
  
  ToText(Year([Date]))&ToText(Month([Date]))&" - "&[Machine]
  
  Then you can graph on the combination of the year/month and machine (these are unique):
  
  Here is what the graph looks like with some additional data added:
  
  You can filter by machine:
  
  You can also set a report filter to <ask user> for the machine or add the date to the dynamic filters list and select specific time periods. Month has to handled this way since charts order either ascending or descending so using the text for the month, such as November, would disorder the data in a chart since you cannot manually select the order. Also as you add data year over year, the data for multiple years of November would be charted in the same bar.
  
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  Adam Keever
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- DonLarson
  Qrew Commander
  5 years ago
  Rhonda,
  
  So sticking with the proposed architecture, you will need to make separate reports based upon what period of time you want the data summarized over. I am also assuming you are going to do a report for each machine to keep it readable.
  
  Some sample data
  
  Here is Chart Detail
  
  And then the result for the Press
  
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  Don Larson
  Paasporter
  Westlake OH
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