1)How can we do the Union in Report Studio?
2)What is the meaning of Aggregation and Rollup Aggregation?
3)How can we hide the columns in Report Studio and How can
we view the hiding Objects?
4)Can we provide joins in Report Studio and in which
situation we can go for outer join?
5)If we take a Date Prompt and run it once it will show
default data,how can we change it exact 1 month back data?



1)How can we do the Union in Report Studio? 2)What is the meaning of Aggregation and Rollup Aggrega..

Answer / sowjanya

1. For making Union query Both the input queries should
contain same columns.

2.Aggregation refers to Detail level Aggregation
Roll Up Aggregation is for Summary Level Aggregation

3.By making Box Type property None, we can hide a column. To
see the Hidden objects click on Visual Ads button and check
View Hidden objects

4.Queries can be joined making use of join query. when there
is any null record in the joining column which is to be
fetched then we go for outer joins(1..0)

5.To change the default date selection in the date prompt,
Java script need to be implemented

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