Graphing Counts & Using Counts as Variables

Hey all
My team was just set-up in OBIEE and our data model completed was built for us, now it's on us to create all the dashboards that we have currently in Crystal Reports. We only have minimal training documentation which I think is intended for non-IT people because it doesn't get much past sorting columns.
What I'm trying to accomplish is to use the count() function as a variable, for instance (we're a helpdesk team) if I wanted to divide the total number of tickets submitted by the amount of days in the period then graph on that to show trends etc. This is useful in a lot of our data.
The exact report I'm making now I want to show the count of tickets by category year to date and then next to it on the same graph that same data for the week from the prompt (I'll read up on passing a variable from the prompt to the report). I've tried creating a column and then using MAX RCount and other methods that I could think of but I can't get the count to reset after each category. If it were possible to graph counts then this would be easy (well except the filtered week data) but from everything I've read I have to create a column and as I said I can't get the equation right.
Any help would be appreciated

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