Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base Reports - Getting Monthly & YTD Averages

Hi :)
I was thinking about a 2nd Query to get the average/month rather than using
the 1st Query.  Alex has a better idea i think.

As for using Calc i thought the idea was to use something like;
Insert - Data Source
but i could only find linking to "External data".  I didn't think that just
dragging the Query into Calc would work.  I'm guessing that if the original
data now gets updated the ex-Query in Calc wouldn't update?  At least it's
given a basic idea of what to expect though.

I don't know how to get Calc to generate reports based on Queries within
Base but i really should.
Apols and regards from
Tom :)




On 26 September 2014 10:03, Don Parris <parrisdc@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Alex.  The underlying query gets the month from the date, as well as
> the total, average, max and min for each month.  The results are, of
> course, already grouped & calculated by month.  I was able to get the
> overall total, but also wanted to see the overall average, max and min.  I
> somehow imagined that it would be a piece of cake.  It looks like Calc is
> the better "report tool" in this case.
>
> In Calc, I dragged the query into a spreadsheet, and simply created a
> series of formulas to perform the calculations on the results.
>
> If I alter the query, how can I get the overall average, apart from the
> monthly averages?
>
> Thanks,
> Don
>
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Le 25/09/2014 23:59, Don Parris a écrit :
> >
> >
> > Hi Don,
> >
> > > shown, and that works great.  I used the "Accumulation" function to do
> > > this.  But when I try to get an overall average, I wind up getting the
> > > average for the first month (in the report), not for the year-to-date.
> >
> > What expression are you using in the definition of your Report Builder
> > field to obtain the average of all months combined ? If you just use
> > something like AVG[MONTH] then it will only average on that particular
> > month.
> >
> > It might be better, as Tom has suggested, to create a separate result in
> > your initial query in order to provide the average of the combined
> > months rainfall.
> >
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> >
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