Help with writing a formula

Hi all,
I am creating a report, and need help with writing a formula...
I am creating a report that shows how many visits/touches our reps have made to various grade accounts. It is broken down by calendar week, and I currently have a weekly "goal" number set that the reps have to meet. That "goal" number increases each week to keep a running total. (example: week 1: 7, week 2: 14, week 3: 21)
I have created some different formulas and one is this:
SUM("Activity Metrics"."# of Activities" BY Date."Calendar Week")
What this shows me is how many "visits" there are per calendar week to customers, however it show me the total for all reps per week.
What I need is that total to show, but totaled for each rep individually.
What I was trying is this:
SUM("Activity Metrics"."# of Activities" BY Date."Calendar Week") BY Employee."Employee Name"
But...I keep getting an error.
Any suggestions?
I have the reporting book by Lairson, and have been referring to it...but my brain at this point is fried.
Thanks in advance for any help...(please forgive...I am new to OnDemand, and I am sure this is easy)

Thanks for helping!
I created this formula as a column: SUM ("Activity Metrics"."# of Activities" BY Date."Calendar Week"), it is called "total number of visits per week" and it shows the totaled number of visits that all the reps have done per calendar week. For example: Week 1: 10 visits, Week 2: 37 visits, Week 3: 20 visits.
What I would like to do is take that column and break it down further, to show instead how many visits per week by sales rep there have been
So what I was trying was to take the "total number of visits per week" (SUM ("Activity Metrics"."# of Activities" BY Date."Calendar Week")) and use "Activity Owner" (Employee."Employee Name") to break it down further.
What I need to use is the total number of visits each rep has per calendar week.
I think I am getting the error because you can't use "BY" twice in a formula?

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