Drill down in crosstab report

Question

I'm working with a crosstab report displaying summary accounts on each row & current and prior year on each column. I'd like to create a drill down function for each of the summary accounts rows so that when I click on a summary account, the dept# that made up this summary total will be displayed either on a separate report or below the summary account that I click.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.
This is what I want to create:
SUMMARY ACCOUNT               FY2014     FY2013
600001 - SALARIES               500        380    (i.e. able to drill down to dept below when 600001 is clicked)
    701000 - ER DEPT            200        175
    757000 - CATH LAB           150        210
    848000 - INFO SYSTEM        100         65
    851000 - ACCOUNTING          50         50
710002 - BENEFITS               150        140
    881000 - HUMAN RES          135        130
    900000 - OTHERS              15         10
711003 - SUPPLIES               XXX        XXX

Answer 1

Thank you for the referenced thread.  I've copied your answer on the thread to this reply below.
However, I do have a few question in following thru your instructions:
1.  How do you procede with the 1st 3 bullets below?
2.  What or where is the Business Object Platform?
3.  What or where is the "Repository"
Please advice.  Thank you.
Here are a few ways you can drill-down into a cross-tab (all of them are workarounds by the way).
The first method is using Report Parts or ‘Another Report Object’ and the second method is using an ‘OpenDoc’ URL
Both the methods need the target report (report that is opened when drilled into) to have the same groups as the Crosstab
The ‘Another Report Object’ can be setup in the following way:
The target report needs to saved to the BusinessObjects Platform first
Open the target report in the Crystal Report designer from the ‘Repository’
Assuming the groups have been setup properly, click on any field in the details section and ‘Copy’ (Ctrl+C)
Open the Report with the Crosstab
Right-click the Summary Field on the Crosstab and go to ‘Format Field’ > Hyperlink
Then Check ‘Another Report Object’ and click on ‘Paste’
All the required information should be populated automatically
This is how the Data Context should look like:
“/”+GridRowColumnValue(“Customer.Country”)+”/”+ GridRowColumnValue(“Customer.Region”)+”/”+ GridRowColumnValue(“Customer.Customer Name”)
Where “Country” and “Region” are rows in the Crosstab, “Customer Name” is a column in the crosstab.
Similarly, “Country”, “Region” and “Customer Name” are groups on the target report
So, the above formula would make sure the report drills-down to the last group
The next method using ‘OpenDoc’ makes use of the opendocument URL and passes values from the Crosstab to the target report’s parameters
Here’s how we can set this up:
The basic design of the Main report and the target report would be the same as in above, however we would need to create parameters that correspond to the groups on the target report
In this case, we would create three parameters – Country, Region and Customer Name
We would use these parameters as filters on the target report and our record selection formula would look like this:
{Country} = {?Country} and {Region} = {?Region} and {Customer Name} = {?Customer Name}
We would then link the Main reports ‘Country’, ‘Region’ and ‘Customer Name’ with these parameters
Now on the Main report Right-click the Summary Field on the Crosstab and go to ‘Format Field’ > Hyperlink
Check the option ‘A Website on the Internet’ and click on the formula button in ‘Hyperlink information:”; the formula should be as follows:
“/OpenDocument/opendoc/openDocument.jsp?iDocID=6472&lsSCountry=”&GridRowColumnValue(“Customer.Country”)&” &lsSRegion=”&GridRowColumnValue(“Customer.Region”)&” &lsSCustomer+Name=”&GridRowColumnValue(“Customer.Customer Name”)
When any summary value is clicked in the Cross-tab, the corresponding Country, Region and Customer Name are passed as values to the parameters of the target report
Hope this helps!
-Abhilash