Formula column in BI

Hi all and Raineer
i have written a formula column in the below Data template and it is not giving any result for the id element when i view the xml output
<dataTemplate name="data_template" description="Template_description" dataSourceRef="TFUAT">
     <parameters>
          <parameter name="org_id" dataType="number" defaultValue="121"/>
     </parameters>
     <dataQuery>
          <sqlStatement name="Q1">
               <![CDATA[SELECT party_name FROM
apps.hz_parties where rownum<10
]]>
          </sqlStatement>
     </dataQuery>
     <dataStructure>
          <group name="G_temp" source="Q1">
               <element name="ite_use_id" value="party_name"/>
               <element name="id" dataType="character" value="FormulaProfitMargin"/>
          </group>
     </dataStructure>
     <programUnits>
          <function name="FormulaProfitMargin">
               <![CDATA[
      FUNCTION FormulaProfitMargin RETURN number IS
      BEGIN
        return (10);
      END;
    ]]>
          </function>
     </programUnits>
</dataTemplate>
thank you
Boo

If I use the suggested way in SQL query, I will have performace issue. My query selects 20 columns 4 among them are with aggregate functions. It is forcing me to do the group by with remaining 16 columns.
Please provide me the sample code which has alternate way to extract formula.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Boopathi

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