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Eliminating duplicates in a column but not rows

edited Sep 18, 2018 6:38PM in Reporting & Analytics for B2C Service 3 comments

Summary

Attempting to remove duplicates revenue values because it throws off the total

Content

I'm using two custom objects that are related to each other.  One object is called a "Quote" and the other is a "Line Item".  I can add multiple Line Items to a single Quote.  

I'm creating a report that shows line items and quotes and I display fields from both objects.  The report shows one row per Line Item.  This is great.  My issue is that it shows the same value for Quote fields in each line item row where the line items are all associated with the same Quote.  Normally, I wouldn't care about these duplicates.  But one of my columns is revenue.  And this gets summed.  So the numbers are completely wrong because it's taking my revenue for the quote object and showing it X number of times for X number of

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