Best excel layout for multi months of data and multiple metrics?

Question

Are there ways around a pivot table?
Xcelsius Enterprise - SP3  BOXI31 SP3
Requirement;
Chart (combo - line and bar)
Monthly data (refresh)
13 rolling months
4 "levels" of filtering
16 metrics
Do I have to use a pivot table to align the 13 months across the top of the sprdsht,  trying to utilize QaaWS, however,  we still would have to create the pivot table after refresh.  Looks like Rich Client might work to push universe data to excel?
Edited by: Michael on Jul 13, 2010 4:51 PM

Answer 1

Simple solution:
Make a filter box (dropdown) and set it so that there are 4 of them.
Write out all your data alike: Option1 Option2 Option3 Option4 Metric Score
Put the filter box on the entire area of your data (all 6 columns), it will automatically make the 4 filters populated with the possibilities in the dataset.
Copy the resultrows of the filtering to another area, put the chart on that one (and use index or so to pick the metric you want to see).
Edited by: Roeland Nieuwenhuis on Jul 14, 2010 1:32 PM