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Optimizing Inventory Report Joins

The document provides guidance on building an Inventory report that displays items, batch, container, location, attributes, and locks. It emphasizes the importance of selecting relevant joins, specifically linking the Company category with Item and Facility categories while removing unnecessary joins. Additionally, it includes notes on how to identify which joins to remove or create based on their color coding in the report tool.

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Optimizing Inventory Report Joins

The document provides guidance on building an Inventory report that displays items, batch, container, location, attributes, and locks. It emphasizes the importance of selecting relevant joins, specifically linking the Company category with Item and Facility categories while removing unnecessary joins. Additionally, it includes notes on how to identify which joins to remove or create based on their color coding in the report tool.

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Scenario

You are trying to build a report to display on Inventory showing Items, batch, container, location,
attributes and Locks. You have added the required categories and application creates the default JOINS.
This document provides some guidance on how to choose only the relevant joins.

Create a report with below categories

Default Joins created by tool


Here Company category has linked to multiple categories due to the foreign key available in that
category. But t there is no need to join all those categories with company.

In case of Inventory report, Company category must be linked with Item category and facility category
must be linked with Inventory category

Remove the unwanted joins and add the required joins.

Follow below notes and screenshots

1. If the join highlighted is in Red color, then that join should be removed
2. If the join highlighted is in green color, then that join should be created
3. If the join highlighted is in Blue color, then there is change in the Join type (inner join, left outer
or right outer join)
Updated Joins will look like below
Add the required fields/footers etc.… in the report and execute it.

Example Output from Internal instance

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