This is the fourth in a series of posts on simplifying FRx. Happy New Year! I've been at home cleaning and organizing and straightening while putting away all the holiday decorations. Getting ready for the new year. All this inspired today's post—how to clean and … [Read more...]
How To Simplify FRx Departmental Reporting
This is the third in a series of posts on simplifying FRx. Once upon a time many years ago, I was helping a large publicly held client with some FRx reports. One of their reports had an incredibly long row format (thousands of rows), and it took FOREVER to run. Upon closer … [Read more...]
How To Simplify FRx Catalogs
This is the second in a series of posts on simplifying FRx. In almost every existing FRx implementation, I run across opportunities to simplify, meaning reduce, the number of catalogs (aka reports). That often translates to fewer rows, columns, and trees. I really love doing … [Read more...]
Simplify FRx Totals and Calculations
This is the first of a series of posts on how to simplify FRx. It's so easy to make FRx harder than it should be. And it's not only harder to set up but way tougher to maintain. In this post I'll give some real world examples of simplifying FRx totals and calculations. I'm … [Read more...]