Multiple Column Report. For Example - Payment Remittance.

Sometimes we need to list all the Bills, the check is paid for.
In certain format. In my case in 3 (Three) columns.

For example for check 00100002 we have 4 Bills attached:

Well, I know, it will be good to show how much exactly each bill is paid for, but this is minor.

Lets achieve first multiple column printing.

First of all, I would need a View in a database, that will return 3 Bill Numbers in a row, in a sequential order.

If I used standard select 

It will just list me all the Payments from AP with corresponding Bills:

Well, it shows for Check 000005 we have 3 Bills and 1 Credit Adjustment. This relates to my example above with what we actually want to achieve.

Second step would be - we need to add a numeric counter, to count the order of those rows. In my case from 1 to 4 for highlighted rows. Will also be good to add a type of Check, as we may have different.

Lets rework our view:

Ok, now lets add a counter, generic rule will be to create a special RowNumber field:

Here is what our view will become:

Here we have a number 1 to 4. Now we have more complicated task - to arrange these Invoice Numbers into 3 columns, within a single row. To make it simpler, I assume that no check will pay for more than 3000 invoices. This is realistic example. Formula to describe all the sequential numbers that will fall into respective columns will be

1. Column One: N1 = a*3-2. Where N1 are numbers to fall into column 1, and a - is the number of row.

For example for row 1 number should be 1, for row 2 number would be 4, because number 2 will go for column 2, and number 3 will go for column 3. Same way for columns 2 and 3.

2. Column Two: N2 = a*3-1

3. Column Three: N3 = a*3

Based on above, invoice 038648 should go to row 1 column 1, 038649 to row 1 column 2, 038650 to row 1 column 3 and last 038652 should jump to row 2 and column 1. The other words, sequential number 1 corresponds col 1 row 1, 2 = col2 row 1, 3= col3 row 1 and 4 = col1 row 2.

To help me to arrange this logic within a view, I will create 3 tables, each with sequential numbers. And each table will have only numbers that corresponds to columns 1, 2 and 3 respectively.

Now I will populate them using this script, again, its in assumption that we will have up to 3,000 bills per check:

Now lets create a view with Raw data for all 3 columns:


Create VIEW XSW_APRemitRaw
AS
SELECT r.PayNbr, r.PayDoc, r.CompanyID, ROUND((r.rownumber+2)/3,0) as RowNumber, 
InvRefNbr1 = CASE WHEN r.rownumber in (select Counting from XSW_Column1_Of3) THEN r.InvRefNbr ELSE '' END, 
InvRefNbr2 = CASE WHEN r.rownumber in (select Counting from XSW_Column2_Of3) THEN r.InvRefNbr ELSE '' END, 
InvRefNbr3 = CASE WHEN r.rownumber in (select Counting from XSW_Column3_Of3) THEN r.InvRefNbr ELSE '' END
FROM (select p.RefNbr as PayNbr, p.DocType as PayDoc, i.CompanyID as CompanyID, i.DocType as InvDocType, i.RefNbr as InvRefNbr, 
(SELECT COUNT(*) FROM APPayment p2 inner join APAdjust a2 on p2.CompanyID = a2.CompanyID and
p2.DocType = a2.AdjgDocType and p2.RefNbr = a2.AdjgRefNbr
inner join APInvoice i2 on p2.CompanyID = i2.CompanyID and a2.AdjdDocType = i2.DocType and
i2.RefNbr = a2.AdjdRefNbr WHERE i2.RefNbr <= i.RefNbr AND p2.RefNbr = p.RefNbr and a2.AdjgDocType = a.AdjgDocType) AS rownumber
from APPayment p inner join APAdjust a on p.CompanyID = a.CompanyID and
p.DocType = a.AdjgDocType and p.RefNbr = a.AdjgRefNbr
inner join APInvoice i on p.CompanyID = i.CompanyID and a.AdjdDocType = i.DocType and
i.RefNbr = a.AdjdRefNbr) r