Comparing successive years in a report

Hello!
I've tried to find answers to my dilemma, but so far either I have come up short, the instructions were not quite what I was looking for... or I just didn't understand the instructions.
My goal is to create a report that looks a bit like this:
2004 % 2005 % 2006 % 2007 %
100 NA 105 5% 125 19% 110 -12%
(Hard to edit it to look right...)
Anyways. I want to first list the actual values of a given field and then compare the difference to last years value and convert it to a percentage. The problem is that I just don't know how to get the previous year. I can manage to get the years just fine in a pivot table. It's pretty standard really, but the comparison of the two successive years eludes me.
I have a self created time dimension, which has unique chronological keys for year, month and days.
The "best thing so far" I did in my opinion was, that I added a new logical column called "edkont", which was supposed to be the sum of the previous years field. I then proceeded to edit the aggregation rule and used the AGO-function like this:
AGO(Dw_tgt.Kontakti.Edkont, Dw_tgt.AikaDim.Vuosi, 1)
Converted to english (for clarity) this should look something like:
AGO(Dw_tgt.Contact.PrevCont, Dw_tgt.TimeDim.Year, 1)
Now when I put this in the Expression builder, it gives me an error "You must use standard aggregate functions."
Fair enough, I try to use this:
AGO(SUM(Dw_tgt.Kontakti.Edkont), Dw_tgt.AikaDim.Vuosi, 1)
Same error. I even tried the following:
SUM(AGO(Dw_tgt.Kontakti.Edkont, Dw_tgt.AikaDim.Vuosi, 1))
This time it just says Invalid Expression.
So that's my problem. I'd really appreciate any help on the topic.
Regards,
Erik

Okay. I resolved a part of the issue.
The problem was with the time dimension. I had set up the chronological keys badly.
Now however I'm faced with a new problem. I've created some new logical columns with the AGO-function and the percentage column also. And they seem to work just fine, yay!! Except for one thing.
The problem however becomes that when I try to put the percentage columns to a pivot table as a measure, it won't load.
For example, I can put up the Year Ago Contacts up as a measure column and that's fine, but when I try to put the "change from last year as a percentage" -column... it stops the query when it tries to retrieve the pivot table results and gives the following error message:
State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 17001] Oracle Error code: 942, message: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist at OCI call OCIStmtExecute. [nQSError: 17010] SQL statement preparation failed. (HY000)
SQL Issued: SELECT Aika.Vuosi saw_0, Palveluryhma."Palveluryhmä" saw_1, Kontakti."Kontakti lkm" saw_2, Kontakti."Viime vuoden kont sum" saw_3, Kontakti."Viime vuoden kont %" saw_4, Kontakti."Asiakas lkm" saw_5, Palveluryhma."Palveluryhmä nro" saw_6, AGGREGATE(saw_4 BY saw_0), AGGREGATE(saw_5 BY saw_0) FROM Pegasos WHERE (Palveluryhma."Palveluryhmä nro" BETWEEN 1 AND 10) AND (Aika.Vuosi > 2004) AND (Aika.Vuosi < 2009) ORDER BY saw_0, saw_1, saw_6
I tried to set them up in other pivot tables too and sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. But mostly they just give me the similar error message. Any ideas anyone?
Regards,
Erik

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