About the top N condition in WAD web template

Question

Hi all experts,
I'm facing a problem in my WAD web template. Hope you guys can give me a hand.
In my web template, there is analysis item A and B.
Table A are used to display top 3 customers(char) with highest purchase rate % (KF), I'm using top N condition to select top 3 customers.
And table B is to show all customers with purchase rate, sorted from highest purchase rate to lowest (logic:- sort the KF(purchase rate) in descending order)
The problem is when there is many customers with purchase rate = 100%(more than 20 customers), then for the 1st-3rd customers of table A and B, the selected and sorted customers results are not the same, shouldn't that they should be identical for the 1st three rows as they are trying to show customers with highest purchase rate? even though table A is using top 3 condition and table B is using descending sorting for purchase rate.
For example:- Top 3 customers in table A and all customers in table B
Table A                                            
Customer       Purchase rate             
c3                  100%                             
c1                  100%                            
c5                  100%                                                                               
Table B
Customer    Purchase rate
c2              100%
c3              100%
c4              100%  
c1              100%
c5              100%
c6              81%
c7              58%
In this example, table a and b have selected different customers for 1st to 3rd position, i'm trying to make them showing identically. Any suggestion?
Perhaps you guys can give me some idea on how does the top N condition determine the TOP 3 customers if there is many customers with 100% purchase rate as in this case.
Thanks a lot,
Eric
Edited by: Eric Tan on Aug 12, 2008 10:49 AM

Answer 1

When u create conditions, you have tab called CHARACTERISTIC ASSIGNEMENT.& other is GENERAL..which is like in what way you want to create conditions i.e based on which characteristic or whole characteristic in rows etc...you try choosing those option in that tab, so that you can find some ideas..