# Reports: how to 'or' multiple string values in details section

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reports-how-to-or-multiple-string-values-in-details-section/44865>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 24, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reports-how-to-or-multiple-string-values-in-details-section/44865 "2021-03-24T16:47:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![kb5won](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kb5won/32/4967_2.png) [@kb5won](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kb5won)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reports-how-to-or-multiple-string-values-in-details-section/44865/1 "2021-03-24T16:47:00Z")

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I want a report to look like this:  
12:22 process started  
12:23 step 1 completed  
12:24 step 2 completed  
12:25 process done

I have the descriptions stored in 3 different tags (circled in red). I can’t figure out how to ‘or’ the three tags so that the report uses the data contained in all 3 tags.

Can anyone help me understand how to do this? (I’m not strong with SQL, so you might need to talk real slow!)

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**Author:** ![kb5won](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kb5won/32/4967_2.png) [@kb5won](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/kb5won)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reports-how-to-or-multiple-string-values-in-details-section/44865/2 "2021-03-30T14:03:45Z")

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should I consolidate the data so that I only have one string value instead of the three?

should that be done with a SQL script?

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**Author:** ![matthew.ayre](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matthew.ayre/32/19499_2.png) [@matthew.ayre](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/matthew.ayre)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/reports-how-to-or-multiple-string-values-in-details-section/44865/3 "2021-03-30T14:22:54Z")

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Hi @kb5won, you could use a scripting data source that can iterate through and concatenate the strings based on the data key alias. However, this might be inefficient.

Instead you might be able to leverage [Keychain Expressions](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com/display/DOC81/Keychain+Expressions) to do the logic and join(). However, I have not really used these, so it may not be the correct route.