Pivot Tables

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Introduction

A pivot table can help summarise and provide insights into otherwise flat data. One has to start producing a pivot table by first deciding what information one wants out of the pivot table, such as how many cases did we admit last year on a monthly basis?.

Pivot tables are available in Excel and many other applications. Their inclusion in IBID is simply to provide ad-hoc querying capabilities without the inherent risks involved in exporting potentially sensitive data from the database.

Building a Pivot Table

A pivot table is built by selecting certain database fields for the following uses:

  • Data Field : this is the field who's contents can be counted or summed.
  • Row Fields : this field or fields provide the first dimension of the table.
  • Column Fields : the field or fields provide the second dimension of the table.
  • Filter Fields : field(s) that are used to simply filter the source data and are not shown in the pivot table directly.

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The fields are placed by dragging and dropping from the Field List. To display the field list click the "Field List" button at the top left of the Pivot table just under the menu bar.

The Field List will have a further drop down list under each item listed, enabling the user to narrow down the search criteria by ticking or un-ticking the items to be displayed.


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