Calculate profit at row level in Discoverer Plus

Question

HI,
I need to calculate profit at row level in Discoverer Plus as follows.
There are columns
1)     Account Name- Contains Expense and revenue account names
2)     Account type- Contains Identifier for account (E or R)
3)     Amount --- Contains amount
4)     Period     Name -- Contains Numeric Amount.
Cross Tabular Report Look like as follows
Period Name          Feb-2009     Mar-2009
Account Name
Total Revenue          100          90     
Total Labor Cost          30          30     
Total G&A Cost          20          50
Profit               ???          ??     
Need to show PROFIT =Total Revenue- (Total Labor Cost- Total G&A Cost)
at bottom for each period.
I am unable to use calculations because it appears column wise…
Would you please suggest solution for this?
Thanks,
Mahesh.

Answer 1

Hi
Try dragging the data point headings off the top axis and place them to the right of the Account Name. They will all drag together so just moving one will move them all.
If your profit is already calculated and is a data point as you have commented then it too will come over to the left. For displaying it under the other items, a really cool feature about having data points on the left is that you can drag their heading and place it anywhere you want. I will be including this trick in my free March ask Michael webinar. (By the way, if anyone reading this thread you can sign up for my free webinar by clicking here: http://ascbi.com/question.htm)
You should now be able to display your calculated profit as a row underneath the other items. I tried this on my own system and it worked just fine.
Best wishes
Michael