Is there any way of setting reports to automatically select the latest month (and ideally the the corresponding month in the previous year) after adding the 'next' months data to the file. At the moment I have to manually 'move on' a series of reports to show the latest data after updating.
Thanks
Steve
You will need to create a formula field to do this. I've done this using formula functions only available from Omniscope 2.5. You can also achieve the same effect using functions from Omniscope 2.4, if needed, but it is more complicated.
I've given two examples. Each uses the following sub-expression to combine months+years as a large number of months since 0AD, then subtracts one such value from another:
You end up with a number 0 to mean "current/latest month", -1 to mean "previous month" and -13 to mean "previous month in previous year". You can then filter on this value to ensure only certain months are showing. Should new data appear in the file, the formulas would re-evaluate.