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Summary Report not grouping

  • January 16, 2019
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Hey folks, got a problem over here. I've made a summary report that is supposed to group by business unit. And for some reason, it is not. 

For example, if I were tracking car sales, it should show something like this: 

Brand.....Sales.....Total Dollars
Buick......4............$80,000
Chev.......10..........$150,000
GMC.......2...........$100,000


Instead, I'm getting this: 
Buick.....3...........$70,000
Chev......5...........$100,000
Chev......2............$25,000
GMC......1............$60,000
Buick....1..............$10,000
GMC.....1..............$40,000
Chev......3.............$25,000


Some troubleshooting that I've already done:
  • In a grid edit, copied and pasted from one cell to all the others to ensure that the Brand is exactly the same for each of the like brands
  • Changed my grouping from Brand to type (i.e. SUV or Convertible); that one worked correctly--along with a different grouping that I did (call it manual or automatic)
  • When you click on any of the groups for the drilldown report, it is showing everything. So I could click on the "Chev 3" line and the drilldown report takes me to all 10 Chevs sold. 

Any idea why this isn't working? We do have some filters in place, but they should NOT be causing any of these problems. 
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I'm wondering if there is some weirdness with leading or trailing spaces in the Brand field.  A quick way to test that you be to make a formula field Trim([Brand]) and group on that field.