Cognos Report total values with same date

Question

I'm building a report in IBM Cognos report studio.

A set of data looks like this: including location name, item name , item number , and days in inventory.

id     date       type      hours
1   10/27/2021    work       7
1   10/27/2021    overtime   1
1   10/24/2021    work       7
1   10/26/2021    work       7 

I use total to sum the hours for the same date

total ([Hours] for [Date],[ID])

It returns:

id     date       type      hours
1   10/27/2021    work       8
1   10/27/2021    overtime   8
1   10/24/2021    work       7
1   10/26/2021    work       7 

Then I tried a count and running count. then set count = 1 in the filter. Set object aggregate after. Data returns:

id     date       type      hours  count
1   10/27/2021    work       1      1
1   10/27/2021    overtime   1      2
1   10/24/2021    work       1      1
1   10/26/2021    work       1      1

what I need:

id     date       type      hours 
1   10/27/2021    work       8
1   10/24/2021    work       7
1   10/26/2021    work       7 

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

The requirement is still a bit unclear, but if I understand it correctly, the query needs these data items:

Name	Expression	Aggregation
id	[id]	none
date	[date]	none
type	'work'	none
hours	[hours]	Total

Then add a filter with this expression:

[type] in ('work', 'overtime')

Include any values for [type] that you consider "work".

Alternatively, because your comments indicate your sample input and desired output are incomplete...

Name	Expression	Aggregation
id	[id]	none
date	[date]	none
type	case when [type] in ('work', 'overtime') then 'work' else [type] end	none
hours	[hours]	Total

...without the filter.