Crosstab support

Question

Hi all.
I'm trying to properly render a crosstab report and I'm experiencing some really wierd issues.
Suppose I have this set of results:
AFE_NUM, MAJOR_MINOR, ACCT_GROUP_DESC, CDN
Now, what I want to do is basically:
for-each-group (ACCT_GROUP_DESC)
for-each (MAJOR_MINOR)
create a column for each AFE_NUM and list CDN
for example:
FirstAcctGroup AFE1 AFE2 AFE3 ...
MajorMinor1 cdn cdn cdn
MajorMinor2 cdn cdn cdn
MajorMinor3 cdn cdn cdn
SecondAcctGroup AFE1 AFE2 AFE3 ...
MajorMinorY cdn cdn cdn
MajorMinorY cdn cdn cdn ...
In the template I've got what looks like this:
Regrouping the ACCT_GROUP_DESC is easy. However, when I get to trying to create the columns in the template with
<?for-each-group@column:current-group();AFE_NUM?>
The AFE's start to cycle around for each ACCT_GROUP_DESC (meaning that the same AFE is not in the same column all the way down the report, which it should be).
I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what's going on.
Dave
P.S. Sorry for the poor formatting. This thing seems to want to take out extra whitespace...

Answer 1

If you are willing to put your email address up here, I send you the example for a 3*3 level template I prototyped.
It is somewhat tedious, the basic loop for each row goes like this
<?for-each-group:ROW;./brand?><?variable@incontext:G1;current-group()?>
<?brand?>
<?for-each-group@cell://ROW;./country?>
// Country total - highest level
<?sum ($G1[(./country=current()/country)]/sales)?>
<?for-each-group@cell:current-group();./region?>
// district total - medium level
<?sum ($G1[(./country=current()/country) and (./region=current()/region)]/sales)?>
<?for-each-group@cell:current-group();./district?>
<?sum ($G1[(./country=current()/country) and (./region=current()/region) and (./district=current()/district)]/sales)?>
<?end for-each-group?><?end for-each-group?><?end for-each-group?>
The context is described in the user guide - basically you need to tell, where in the code
xsl statements should be inserted. The default for variables was because of some early
use cases from an applications team set to "beginning of stylesheet" resulting of being global variables..
The performance is not that great - that is why we add the new function.
Hope that helps,
Klaus