SSRS Report: Modify Out of the Box Report in Epicor 10

SSRS Report In Epicor: How to Modify an Out of the Box Report

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How to Modify an Out of the Box SSRS Report In Epicor 10

SQL reporting systems is a reporting platform integrated into Epicor version 10. Users may need to modify an out of the box report for one of their many business needs. Here, the Datix Epicor consulting experts show you “how to” modify an out of the box SSRS Report; no matter the complexity of the report:

(SSRS Report – code at bottom of page)

For further SSRS report help contact the Datix team today. We are currently helping several organizations with SSRS report and crystal report processes in Epicor version 10.

1. Load Epicor; click on the System Management> Reporting> Report Data Definition.
2. Click the “Code” button to search for the report you are modifying:

3. Click Actions> Duplicate Report
4. The left side bar will display a cascading tree. Right click on Report Table and Add New Table
5. Name it and add a Description.

 

• Click Schema Table and search for the table you want to add.
• Double click to add, then add a sequence number (optional) to change the order of the table in the list.

6.  Add Table Relationship

• Rick click Report Relationship in the tree on the left and add new
  • Change description from this table to that that table>
  • Do not choose a key>
  • Child table>
  • Choose: Output (definition only will not output anything)>
  • Add relationship fields
    • The field must always show company and always the field linking them together (i.e., part number).

7.  After adding the relationships, click on the table in the tree on the left. Click the Report Table, then Exclusions tabs to “un-exclude” or include the fields from the tables needing to be included:

8.  Save and close this window.

9.  Choose Report Style

10.  Click the Report ID button to search for your report and double click to open.

11. Click the new icon and choose New Report Style> Style Detail:

12.  Fill in the following fields:

• Description (This is what users will see).
• Type: SQL Server Reporting
• Choose the data definition (i.e. Job Traveler)
• Report location. (This is a path to the report)
• Output: Database

13. Navigate to the Report Manager URL

• SQL Servername/Reports (Not the application server)>
• Windows authentication enables (User may have issues trying to do this through a VPN)>
• Choose Main Report> Click Down Arrow to Right of Report> Edit in Report Builder

14.  Make a copy of the Main Report> Save As

• Save it to the custom reports folder.

15. Run the Report in Epicor.

• Make sure to select the report style.
• Click the Print Preview icon located at the top of the screen.

16.  Retrieve the GUID from the System Monitor located in on the bottom right of the screen. Double click to open.

• The GUID is the last field on the reports tab under filename and will say REPORTDATABASE: fjaldskfjds;lkfjslkfjds;lkfjds

• Copy the contents of the field and paste somewhere to save it. Omit “REPORTDATABASE,” to simply save the GUID number.

17.  Go back to Report Builder: Datasets> Right Click on Report Labels>Dataset Properties

• Use dataset embedded in form.
• Click on the fx (functions) button.

18.  Edit the Query:

• Join on company and company: Po Num and Po Num
  1. Below is the table user is joining and the fields user is joining on.
• Copy from LEFT OUTER JOIN; right before next LEFT OUTER JOIN statement (see below example).
• After adding the join-statement, add fields (i.e. T5.NewField).

Example (Code):

Original Query

="SELECTT1.RptLanguageID,T1.CommentText,T1.Company,T1.FOB,T1.FreightPP,T1.OrderDate,T1.PONum,T1.PrintAs,T1.ShipToConName,T1.ShipViaCode,T1.Calc_AccountRef,T1.Calc_BillToAddrList,T1.Calc_Buyer,T1.Calc_CurDesc,T1.Calc_CurSymb,CAST(T1.Calc_ExistingDropShipReleases AS nvarchar) AS Calc_ExistingDropShipReleases,T1.Calc_FOBDesc,CAST(T1.Calc_MultiShiptoAddresses AS nvarchar) AS Calc_MultiShiptoAddresses,T1.Calc_PurTerms,T1.Calc_ShipToAddrList,T1.Calc_ShipVia,T1.Calc_VendorContact,T1.Calc_VendPhone,T1.Calc_VendFax,T1.Calc_EMail,T1.BuyerID_EMailAddress,T1.Vendor_EMailAddress,T1.Vendor_FaxNum,T1.VendorCnt_EmailAddress,T1.Calc_TotDocMiscAmt,T1.VendorCnt_FaxNum,T2.CommentText AS PODetail_CommentText,T2.Company AS PODetail_Company,T2.DocUnitCost,T2.MfgPartNum,T2.MfgPartOpts,T2.PartNum,T2.POLine,T2.PONUM AS PODetail_PONum,T2.PUM,T2.RevisionNum,T2.SubPartNum,T2.SubPartOpts,T2.SubPartType,T2.Taxable,T2.VendorPartOpts,T2.VenPartNum,T2.Calc_CostPer,T2.Calc_DtLineDesc,T2.Calc_ExtCost,T2.Calc_UOMDescription,T2.Calc_MfgID,T3.[Description],T3.DocMiscAmt,T3.POLine AS POMisc_POLine,T3.PONum AS POMisc_PONum,T3.Taxable AS POMisc_Taxable,T4.Calc_AccountRef AS RptLiteralsCalc_AccountRef,T4.RptLiteralsLFax,T4.FreightPP AS RptLiteralsFreightPP,T4.RptLiteralsLAuthBy,T4.RptLiteralsLChangeOrder,T4.RptLiteralsLClosed,T4.RptLiteralsLDueDt,T4.RptLiteralsLExtPrice,T4.RptLiteralsLFOB,T4.RptLiteralsLHdng,T4.RptLiteralsLJobNum,T4.RptLiteralsLLine,T4.RptLiteralsLLineChargeSubtotal,T4.RptLiteralsLMfgPartNumber,T4.RptLiteralsLMiscChargeSubtotal,T4.RptLiteralsLMslshS,T4.RptLiteralsLOrderDate,T4.RptLiteralsLOrderQty,T4.RptLiteralsLOurPartNumber,T4.RptLiteralsLPg,T4.RptLiteralsLPhone,T4.RptLiteralsLPONum,T4.RptLiteralsLPrtRvDes,T4.RptLiteralsLQty,T4.RptLiteralsLResalNo,T4.RptLiteralsLRevised,T4.RptLiteralsLSeeBelow,T4.RptLiteralsLSeq,T4.RptLiteralsLShipTo,T4.RptLiteralsLShipVia,T4.RptLiteralsLShRelReq,T4.RptLiteralsLSubstitute,T4.RptLiteralsLSubstitutedFor,T4.RptLiteralsLSupplierPartNumber,T4.RptLiteralsLTax,T4.RptLiteralsLTerms,T4.RptLiteralsLTotal,T4.RptLiteralsLUnitPric,T4.RptLiteralsLVend,T4.RptLiteralsLLnMsChrg,T4.RptLiteralsLDesc,T4.PONum AS RptLiteralsPONum,T4.RptLiteralsLAmt FROM POHeader_" + Parameters!TableGuid.Value + " T1 LEFT OUTER JOIN PODetail_" + Parameters!TableGuid.Value + " T2ON T1.Company = T2.Company AND T1.PONum = T2.PONUM LEFT OUTER JOIN POMisc_" + Parameters!TableGuid.Value + " T3ON T1.Company = T3.Company AND T1.PONum = T3.PONum LEFT OUTER JOIN RptLabels_" + Parameters!TableGuid.Value + " T4ON T1.RptLanguageID = T4.RptLanguageID"

 

 New Query

New Query="SELECTT1.RptLanguageID,T1.CommentText,T1.Company,T1.FOB,T1.FreightPP,T1.OrderDate,T1.PONum,T1.PrintAs,T1.ShipToConName,T1.ShipViaCode,T1.Calc_AccountRef,T1.Calc_BillToAddrList,T1.Calc_Buyer,T1.Calc_CurDesc,T1.Calc_CurSymb,CAST(T1.Calc_ExistingDropShipReleases AS nvarchar) AS Calc_ExistingDropShipReleases,T1.Calc_FOBDesc,CAST(T1.Calc_MultiShiptoAddresses AS nvarchar) AS Calc_MultiShiptoAddresses,T1.Calc_PurTerms,T1.Calc_ShipToAddrList,T1.Calc_ShipVia,T1.Calc_VendorContact,T1.Calc_VendPhone,T1.Calc_VendFax,T1.Calc_EMail,T1.BuyerID_EMailAddress,T1.Vendor_EMailAddress,T1.Vendor_FaxNum,T1.VendorCnt_EmailAddress,T1.Calc_TotDocMiscAmt,T1.VendorCnt_FaxNum,T2.CommentText AS PODetail_CommentText,T2.Company AS PODetail_Company,T2.DocUnitCost,T2.MfgPartNum,T2.MfgPartOpts,T2.PartNum,T2.POLine,T2.PONUM AS PODetail_PONum,T2.PUM,T2.RevisionNum,T2.SubPartNum,T2.SubPartOpts,T2.SubPartType,T2.Taxable,T2.VendorPartOpts,T2.VenPartNum,T2.Calc_CostPer,T2.Calc_DtLineDesc,T2.Calc_ExtCost,T2.Calc_UOMDescription,T2.Calc_MfgID,T3.[Description],T3.DocMiscAmt,T3.POLine AS POMisc_POLine,T3.PONum AS POMisc_PONum,T3.Taxable AS POMisc_Taxable,T4.Calc_AccountRef AS RptLiteralsCalc_AccountRef,T4.RptLiteralsLFax,T4.FreightPP AS RptLiteralsFreightPP,T4.RptLiteralsLAuthBy,T4.RptLiteralsLChangeOrder,T4.RptLiteralsLClosed,T4.RptLiteralsLDueDt,T4.RptLiteralsLExtPrice,T4.RptLiteralsLFOB,T4.RptLiteralsLHdng,T4.RptLiteralsLJobNum,T4.RptLiteralsLLine,T4.RptLiteralsLLineChargeSubtotal,T4.RptLiteralsLMfgPartNumber,T4.RptLiteralsLMiscChargeSubtotal,T4.RptLiteralsLMslshS,T4.RptLiteralsLOrderDate,T4.RptLiteralsLOrderQty,T4.RptLiteralsLOurPartNumber,T4.RptLiteralsLPg,T4.RptLiteralsLPhone,T4.RptLiteralsLPONum,T4.RptLiteralsLPrtRvDes,T4.RptLiteralsLQty,T4.RptLiteralsLResalNo,T4.RptLiteralsLRevised,T4.RptLiteralsLSeeBelow,T4.RptLiteralsLSeq,T4.RptLiteralsLShipTo,T4.RptLiteralsLShipVia,T4.RptLiteralsLShRelReq,T4.RptLiteralsLSubstitute,T4.RptLiteralsLSubstitutedFor,T4.RptLiteralsLSupplierPartNumber,T4.RptLiteralsLTax,T4.RptLiteralsLTerms,T4.RptLiteralsLTotal,T4.RptLiteralsLUnitPric,T4.RptLiteralsLVend,T4.RptLiteralsLLnMsChrg,T4.RptLiteralsLDesc,T4.PONum AS RptLiteralsPONum,T4.RptLiteralsLAmtT5.PartNum FROM POHeader_" + Parameters!TableGuid.Value + " T1 LEFT OUTER JOIN PODetail_" + Parameters!TableGuid.Value + " T2ON T1.Company = T2.Company AND T1.PONum = T2.PONUM LEFT OUTER JOIN POMisc_" + Parameters!TableGuid.Value + " T3ON T1.Company = T3.Company AND T1.PONum = T3.PONum LEFT OUTER JOIN Part_" + Parameters!TableGuid.Value + " T5ON T2.Company = T5.Company AND T2.PartNum = T5.PartNum LEFT OUTER JOIN RptLabels_" + Parameters!TableGuid.Value + " T4ON T1.RptLanguageID = T4.RptLanguageID"

 

19.  Add Field

• Add Query Field> Name and Source Field
• Run to Check Syntax Error
• Add Field to Form
  • Rid the word “first,” if user is drag and dropping.

 

20.  Run the report with your saved GUID by right clicking on Parameters in the tree on the left of the screen and Add Parameter:

21.  Click Default Values> Specify Values and paste the GUID from earlier into the expression box.

The user has successfully modified an out of the box SSRS report!