Matrices in reporting services

Hello All,

I am attempting to produce a Summary report that will detail all financial losses incurred by a company. These losses are seperated into categories and each category has two types, direct and indirect. To date I have employed the use of multiple matrices.

The problem is that if the company has incurred no losses for a specific category then this will cause the matrix to automatically cater for the lack of this column. However I want this to show up regardless of there being data...

I cannot employ the use of tables...as it simply does not work!

Does anyone have any suggestions? Ideas?

All would be appreciated!!

Thanks

JrDevRon,

You could return "Zeros" or Blank space in your SQL where no losses occur for specific categories. This is ensure that you always return all categories regardless.

Ham

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Hi Ham,

Thanks for the reply!

I have this implemented already and this works fine when at least one of the cells in the same column/row has been populated. If there is no data for a specific column then the whole thing disappears regardless...this is something I do not want.

Right now I have it this way and giving me a subtotal, I also then have another row detailing the recovered amounts which apply to my categories below my subtotal, obviously due to restrictions I have to use a second matrix for this information. I then subtract the corresponding information from the subtotal. But due to the above problem these columns do not always line up on the report...

I know this sounds convoluted and more complex than it probably needs to be but I would be appreciative of any help...

Thank you all!!