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swilleyk Newbie Joined: 25 Oct 2011 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 18	Topic: compare counts at two different dates Posted: 02 Apr 2012 at 6:04am
	I have a count for students for a semester. I need to be able to list the student count for one date and then for another date. The dates are both user inputs. I currently have a startdate/endate to get the counts for the semesters. Any suggestions. Is it possible to compare the same field at two different points in time? Thanks
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DBlank Moderator Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 9053	Posted: 02 Apr 2012 at 6:39am
	you can use running totals with conditional evaluate formulas or variable formulas (same way idea but not with the running total GUI) both of these need to be used in footers or you might be able to use summary functions (maybe combined with if-then formulas) -this might be able to be ued in a header. if you eaxplain your data set a little more and how you want it displayed someone wil be able to give more specific directions. Edited by DBlank - 02 Apr 2012 at 6:40am
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swilleyk Newbie Joined: 25 Oct 2011 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 18	Posted: 02 Apr 2012 at 7:38am
	I am accessing a single table on a database directly through CR. I am pulling in fields to display such as term and student type ie Fr(Freshman)SO(Sophomore) etc. I currently have a count for the total students during a semester broken down by student level. What I need to is pull this same information, but then display in a second column the same information, but for a different year. The years will be selected by the user. Thanks
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DBlank Moderator Joined: 19 Dec 2008 Online Status: Offline Posts: 9053	Posted: 02 Apr 2012 at 7:42am
	i would use a crosstab set the columns to use the year field (selected using paramters) your rows can be a combination of the student type and term. your value would likely be a distinctcount of a studentid
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