Crosstab on mixed periods

sno     lineno     stdate          amount     STATUS
101     1     13-JAN-2007     11.00     A
101     2     13-FEB-2007     11.00     A
101     3     
101     12     13-DEC-2007     11.00     A
134     1     17-APR-2008     15.00     B
134     2     17-JUL-2008     15.00     B
178     1     16-MAR-2009     18.00     C
190     1     19-sep-2009     12.00     C
179     1     18-JIN-2010     12.00     Ci need to display cross tab on mixed periods
for current year its on monthly
for next year quarterly and furtherly for yearly basisis
       STPERIOD    JAN-07     FEB-07     MAR-07..........DEC-07     Q1-08     Q2-08     Q3-08     Q4-08     FY-09     FY-10....
Status
A               11     11     11          11     22     0     0     0     0     0
B               0     0     0          0     0     15     15     0     0     0
C               0     0     0          0     0     0     0     0     30     12          how i build cross tab repot in that format.
if not possible, how to hide cross tab columns in OracleBI Discoverer Plus 10g (10.1.2.1)

Hi,
You can try creating a stperiod calculation as:
decode(trunc(stdate, 'YEAR'), trunc(sysdate, 'YEAR'), TO_CHAR(stdate, 'MON-YY'),
trunc(add_months(sysdate,12), 'YEAR'), TO_CHAR(stdate, '"Q"Q-YY'), TO_CHAR(stdate, '"FY-"YY'))and use this as a column dimension.
Getting the columns to be displayed in the correct order may be another challenge.
Rod West

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