I’m working in MS Access 365 and I have a table containing multiple status that I want to summarize in a Pie Chart.
Sample Data:
Sales Order# | Status |
---|---|
1 | New |
2 | Pending |
3 | Closed |
The Statuses are defined by human readable text in a separate table, but are linked in the master table before I run the query. I have the following query to create a summary of each status in the Table.
SELECT Sum(IIf(Table.Status=1,1,0)) AS ["New"], Sum(IIf(Table.Status=2,1,0)) AS ["Pending"], Sum(IIf(Table.Status=3,1,0)) AS ["Closed"], FROM Table;
The issue is that this formats the query result as:
New | Pending | Closed |
---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 1 |
And due to the insane rules around MS Access charting, a Pie chart bases the data off of the 1st two columns and not anything else. How can I reformat my results to be in a column format to make the charting work? Thank you.
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Answer
I believe that is the hard way. Why not count by grouping?
SELECT status, count(status) FROM Table GROUP BY status;
I don’t have MS Access on my Android phone, so I can’t show the output.
The previous query gives counts on the ID, for the names, since you mentioned StatusName
could be:
SELECT StatusName, count(StatusName) FROM Table GROUP BY StatusName;
That assumes a join is not needed to some other Table
to resolve the counts.