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Group Identical Values

If a column in a report contains multiple instances of the same value, you can group these identical values together.

Grouping and ungrouping may change the order of the report items. Sections must precede grouped columns, and grouped columns must precede ungrouped columns.

Grouping

Grouping reorders the rows of a selected report item so that identical values appear together and suppresses the display of duplicates.

Each group shows footer values for report items that have footer summarization turned on.

Creating Sections

Creating sections shows the value of a selected report item as the heading of a section.

If you create a chart for a report that is grouped in section headings, one chart appears for each section.

You cannot group measures. You can group only report items containing text data or non-measure numeric data, such as order numbers.

Steps
  1. Open the report that you want in Query Studio.

  2. Click the heading of the report item you want to group by.

  3. Choose how you want to group:

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