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How to Do Column Placement in FRx

April 21, 2009 By Jan Lenoir Harrigan CPA 47 Comments

Need to calculate an individual cell in FRx? You can. The technique is called column placement. I've been focused on the future of FRx for so long that it's been a while since I posted a How To. By special request from the Wednesday presentation at Convergence (sorry again for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FRx Tagged With: Calculation Priority, Column Placement, Individual Cells, Report Design

FRx Best Practices Laundry List

March 5, 2009 By Jan Lenoir Harrigan CPA 5 Comments

This post is a supplement to my two upcoming Convergence presentations on FRx Best Practices. There just isn't time to cover everything, so here's a laundry list. The items in bold I'll be covering in more detail next week in New Orleans. Meanwhile, here you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FRx Tagged With: Best Practices, Check Total, Drilldown, Report Design, Tie Out

How to Create a Title Page in FRx

December 11, 2008 By Jan Lenoir Harrigan CPA Leave a Comment

If you're creating FRx title pages manually in Word, this will be a fantastic time-saver. Today's post is courtesy of Kim Leonard. Kim is on the support team for FRx at Microsoft in Denver and volunteered to provide this information.  Thank you Kim! To Create a Title Page using … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FRx Tagged With: Report Design, Title Page

FRx SP10 and CS Currency Rounding on the First Row

November 22, 2008 By Jan Lenoir Harrigan CPA 4 Comments

I just found this workaround for the CS currency rounding issue. Found it on the FRx forum at microsoft.public.com. By default, FRx adds the currency format to the 1st row of every report. SP10 has not been allowing the rows with CS to round properly. The commenter was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FRx Tagged With: Currency Rounding, Report Design, Rounding

Dividing by Total Sales for Every Unit in the Tree

November 3, 2008 By Jan Lenoir Harrigan CPA Leave a Comment

This is an alternate way to do a Percent of Sales report. This post is also compliments of Rick Tenorio, moderator of the newsgroup at microsoft.public.frx. Normally in departmental reporting, a P&L calculates percentage of sales by using the sales for that department. For … [Read more...]

Filed Under: FRx Tagged With: Percent of Sales, Report Design

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