BPC 7.5 NW - EVDRE reports

Hello Experts,
I have a couple of questions regarding the EVDRE reports, and would like to seek your guidance.
1. How do we configure the EVDRE reports to display the account balances using the database signage? In other words, we would like to display the INC and the LEQ accounts as negative numbers (or in paranthesis), & the AST and EXP account balances as positive numbers.
2. In our reports, the row key range is Sheet1!$H$18:$H:$25. If I add a formula in column J, it is getting copied to all the rows when the report expands. However, the formula in column G is not expanding along with the rows. I tried to modify the row key range in the key range section of the report, but I got an error saying "runExpand: rowkeyrange <> rowExpandOptions wks: Sheet1". What am I doing wrong here?
As always, thanks in advance for all your guidance.
Best regards,
Van.

Hi,
I wouldnt suggest to create a custom measure just for a single report. However, it is upto you. If you are comfortable with that, you can definitely go ahead with it. You can go to the measureformula table in the SQL database under the database of your appset. Refer to the periodic formula. You just need to copy that formula, and adjust the multiplication by -1 factor in that formula, and you are good to go. You need to do one thing and that is you need to maintain an entry in the mesureformulaapp table, so that your application will use this measure.
If you dont want to create a custom measure, you can use a formula in the report, directly (which you have already tried). However, as you have noticed, the formula got copied to other cells. This is happening because you have a dynamic template. If the structure of the template is going to be pretty much the same, everytime, you can remove the expansion, and your function will not be copied to the other cells.
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