Column Structure

Question

What I want to achieve is the following:
Period XXX............Period XXX...........Period XXX
Sale QTY...Sale Amt...Sale QTY..Sale Amt...Sale QTY..Sale Amt
When query is run, user will enter the 0FISCPER, i.e. 005.2008, then the result will be as following:
003.2008..........004.2008..........005.2008
1000...30000 USD..6000...1200 USD...200...5000 USD
I know this should be used the "offset" feature in the 0FISCPER variable, but can't remember how I build this structure in Query Designer?
Please help.

Answer 1

It is very simple to do.
Approach I
Go to Query desginge-->Column section.
Drage keyfigures Sales Qty & Sales Amt.
Now if you want to see the data of say last 4 period (you can do in this static design).
Copy these two keyfigures and paste it on the Keyfigures structure 4 times or else drag them 4 times.
Now go to the last keyfigure:
Sales Qty right click and change.
Drage characteristics fiscper -->to right
and then right click on fisper -->restrict -->select sap exit variable for pulling current fiscal period.
you will have to additioanlly restrict fiscal year variant as well ,otherwise it won't work.
-->same thing with Sales Amt.
Offset 1-
Now do the same thing ,just one change .After selecting the variable ,right click on hte variable and select the option offset and take -1 as offset.do this for both Sales Qty & Sales Amt Keyfigs.
Offset 2.
here take offset as -2.
similarily for till offset 4.
You can also use description in the Text field for fiscper using text variable which will show the column name liek
Sales Qty 001.2010(you can easily acchiev this).
Now your column structure will look like:
Sales Qty (offset -4)
Sales Amt(offset -4)
Sales Qty (offset -3)
Sales Amt(offset -3)
Sales Qty (offset -2)
Sales Amt(offset -2)
Sales Qty (offset -1)
Sales Amt(offset -1)
Sales Qty (offset 0)
Sales Amt(offset 0)
It may be look in the query like the below if you use text variable for the keyfigure description
Sales Org (if you kept it in rows)   Sales Qty 001.2010 Sales Amt 001.2010 Sales Qty 002.2010 Sales Amt 002.2010 ..so on.
Approach II
Another approach would be to restrict the period in the Query :
Put these in column:
0Fiscper
Keyfig
Sales Qty
Sales Amout
You don't nned to do any offset in this case ,as it will show result for all the fiscper selected by the user in the inital screen.
Regards,
RK