Financial Reporter Filter for Segments

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Hello, 

I want to create separate income statements for each segment and save it all on one workbook using Financial Reporter. I understand that you can print the income statements divided by segments as separate workbooks but I do not want to spend the time consolidating it into one file. It should be done automatically. 

There are three segments:

  • Account (segment number 1)
  • Customer (segment number 2)
  • Business (segment number 3)

I want to filter based on the account and the business segments. 

For example:

If the business segment had the following segment codes: AG, TH and MI. I want one worksheet of the file to show the income statement of all the accounts ending in AG as in the following: 

20000-AG

21000-AG

22000-AG

I have tried to use 20000~22000-%-AG~AG, 20000-AG:22000-AG or 20000~22000-%-AG in column A but it does not work. 

 

EDIT: I was able to generate information by using 20000~22000-AG and hardcoding the other segments. For instance, if the customer segments were H01, J01 and K10 and some of the accounts do not have customer segments, I was able to get information by putting in column A: 20000~22000-AG, 20000~22000-AG-H01, 20000~22000-AG-J01, 20000~22000-AG-K10. 

I need to account for the different segment values in the customer segment to get all the accounts with the required business segments to come up. This does not allow me to consolidate the accounts by the customer segment using column D. 

  • 0

    Perhaps have a look at our FRS product. It's like the Sage FR, but redeveloped into a Microsoft FRx-like application developed in the Sage 300 SDK that doesn't use Excel.

    So, I think I get what you mean - when you print in FR and tell it to print a segment "separately", it treats each segment as a separate report and repeats the whole printing process (to screen, file or printer) for each segment value. So if printing to file, you end up with a separate file for each segment value. So, what you are trying to do is create a report with multiple Income Statements on the one worksheet so that they all end up in the one file?

    I never liked the way FR did that either, so in FRS I designed it so that when you print a segment separately, it's just one report - with multiple pages. So, the standard FRS Income Statement does what you want "out-of-the-box" - including printing the correct segment description(s) in the heading of each page. You could also print both the Customer and Business segments seperately and have a separate page in the one report for each Business/Customer.

    You can also create Report Sets in FRS and have multiple different reports all go to a single PDF file. You can also do things like use MS Task Scheduler to email report sets to groups of email recipients on a regular schedule if you like. It will also work with the Sage 300c web screens later this year. See http://www.dingosoft.co/frs.html for more info. Hope this helps. 

    (edited)

  • 0 in reply to dingosoft

    Thank you for your response. 

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    verified answer

    I found out that I can consolidate by customer segment by putting in one row of column A: 20000~22000-AG, 20000~22000-AG-H01, 20000~22000-AG-J01, 20000~22000-AG-K10 and then putting "T" in column D. Previously, I was putting the accounts in column A on a separate row as the following: 

    • 20000~22000-AG
    • 20000~22000-AG-H01
    • 20000~22000-AG-J01
    • 20000~22000-AG-K10
  • 0 in reply to nrdip

    Cool. Yes, FR can be a bit of a learning curve. FRS has a regular Sage 300 user interface, so is a bit easier to use. Not sure if this is exactly what you are doing, but you can see from the pic below the difference in the UI: