Help with a BEx Query

Question

Hello Gurus,
I have a requirement to write a query to list all the customers who have purchased over $450 (customer total) for a three month period and had not purchased any product from an item category in the same time period. My users want to see the sold_to_party’s. I am using an Invoice ODS.
I have basically created two queries, the first one with 0BILL_DATE in the filter and restricted to three months period, 0SOLD_TO in the rows and 0NETVAL_INV in the Columns and set a condition with value greater than $450. In the second query, included 0SOLD_TO in the rows and created a variable for the sold_to_party and included the first query with processing by 'Replacement path' and placed item category (0ITEM_CATEG) in the filter and restricted to an item category and placed the 0NETVAL_INV in the columns area and created a condition with value equal to zeros.
This is not giving me any sold_to_party listing. I think it is because in the second query, it is trying to read zero invoice value, which does not exist in the ODS.
Then I tried creating an Infoset with this ODS and 0SOLD_TO master data and used left outer join. This also does not give me the desired result.
Can somebody help me how to achieve this? Your help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
<i>In the second query, included 0SOLD_TO in the rows and created a variable for the sold_to_party and included the first query with processing by 'Replacement path' and placed item category (0ITEM_CATEG) in the filter and restricted to an item category and placed the 0NETVAL_INV in the columns area and created a condition with value equal to zeros.</i>
Yes the above always brings the  zero reows in the second report. becuase you are picking the custoemrs from first query (i.e who has sales ) and in the condition your mentioning to display no sales Customers.
Solution:
1) Make 0SOLD_TO as data target.
2) Create the Multi provider on Invoice ODS and 0sold_to
3) you need to have  1 resstricted Column(say Col1) and one normal column(0NETVAL_INV) say col2.
4) you need to have  2 conditions
5) In restriction column: Drag and drop 0NETVAL_INV and restrict it with  0ITEM_CATEG = 'your item category).
6) 0BILL_DATE in the filter and restricted to three months period
7) 1 st condition: col1 <> 0.
2nd condition col2 = 0.
So in single report you can display the user asked information.
With rgds,
Anil Kumar sharma .P