Calculation of Ratios

We have a db with 6 dimensions:Accounts (dense)Time (12 months aggregated into 4 quarters - set with DTS for YTD and QTD) - Dynamic calc on QtrScenario (Actual 03, Actual 02, Plan 1 03, Plan 2 03 etc)Cost CentreBusinessAnalysis codeOur customer has devised some ratios that can Fall over into previous years - example :Average Income - MTD = (last month AI + this month AI) / 2QTD = (last month of previous quarter + current months of quarter) / (1 + months of current quarter) Note: this means if it is February then calc should be (December + January + February) / (1 + 2). If it was for April then it would be (March + April) / (1 + 1).YTD = (last month of previous year + current months of this year) / ( 1 + current months of this year) Note: this would be as per February example shown for QTD above.The issue is that this would mean that we would have to either calculate all these as fixed results by a long calculation string (bearing in mind that you have to use 2 different scenarios), or by some clever outline set up.Does this mean that we would have to introduce a new dimension for years, and amend the scenario so that it referred to the process e.g. Actual, Plan 1, Plan 2 ?A further complication is that Plan 1 in 03 covers all 12 months for 2003 and also 12 months for 2004. Plan 2 covers last 6 months of current year, plus 12 months for 2004, 12 months for 2005 and 12 months for 2006.Also, how can we get it to work so that the user can specify which month they are looking at and still return the correct answers.Any information / suggestions would be fantastic, as they sprung this upon us yesterday, and we have 3 days to get it in and working !!

Are you using Essbase 6.5.1 or above? This version introduced some new calc fucntions that help calcualting ranges across two dimensions - @XRANGE and @MOVSUMX

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The logic presented by Rakesh seems to be appropriate .
u need to follow and utilise the Boolean operators...
go to query designer
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now right clik and say new formulae
from there select the Formulae operator as Boolean operators
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Hit okey
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Doubt in calculating a ratio in a query

Good afternoon forum,
I have a question on how to calculate a ratio in a query.
I have 2 ratios: Actual Cost and Cost Periodificado. And from these two I have to calculate other ratios (WIP).
So the logic would be the following:
A) If the actual cost is greater than the cost periodificado, the difference in these two ratios correspond to the ratio WIP (WORK IN PROGRESS).
B) If the actual cost is <periodificado the cost, the difference in these two ratios correspond to the ratio WIP (PROVISION OF SPENDING)
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I do not know if I have explained well. Any suggestions?
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The logic presented by Rakesh seems to be appropriate .
u need to follow and utilise the Boolean operators...
go to query designer
lets say the ratio u need to display is in columns
now right clik and say new formulae
from there select the Formulae operator as Boolean operators
use follwong formulae
WORK IN PROGRESS = (actual cost > cost periodificado) * (actual cost - cost periodificado)
PROVISION IN SPENDING = (actual cost < cost periodificado) * ( cost periodificado - actual cost)
Hit okey
go to actual costs properties
put the display option as HIDE
repeat the same for Cost periodificado
go to query properties
use the option SUPRESS ZERO VALUES FOR rows and columns....
this way u will only display the required result

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Jade's response is right on. Your formula is incomplete. It is only saying IF A divided by B. You need to specify the equals portion so that your formula reads IF A divided by B equals C do something, ELSEIF A divided by B equals D do something else.Remember as Jade pointed out, when declaring an equals in an IF statement you have to use == not =.Good luck

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Hi Experts,
We need some help here !
I installed BOXI 3.1 with SAP Integration Kit, also Installed transports on SAP BW 7 following the installation guide, OS= Solaris 10 . We already put all the authorizations as the documentation says, and started to make a universe on a top a BEx Queries and directly on top Infocube, the universe is generated automatically OK ! , in both cases.
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Seperating presentation from 'business logic'

I have a program for keeping track of games played and keeping a league table. However, I currently think the way I do the output of the league table using the toString() function shown later is a pretty poor way to do it. OK, let's be honest, it sucks!
My idea is to have some sort of intermediate function which, say generates a structure with just the basic information and then have some other function which displays that info. The basic information might be in the format of an array (one row per player) where each row is a map ('name'->name info, 'grade'->grade info).
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Assuming you add an a method called something like getData() that returns a 2 dim array with each row being a players. Something like the following:
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