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What this process is doing is filtering the rows returned from the dataset. For example all rows with this field not empty or that field meeting some parameter. What would be better is to also filter by column. That would involve reducing the number of fields pulled out by the underlying SQL. The original poster only wants 6 fields displayed. Log on reports from the LEM report engine have enough default fields to spread the headings over 2 lines making any interpretation of the report hefty work.
Is there a way to get at the SQL and sort that directly by writing and running our own SQL or through the reports engine? There is a post on this board from 2014 using Crystal Reports 2013 but nothing more recent. Are there any leads on running raw SQL on the underlying LEM data to get results? I would look to using PHP to create user friendly reports from this. My experience of the built-in MS SQL reporting engine is that it is less effort to code my own in PHP than fight the MS interface.