How to manage Execution of APO-DP planning on portal ?

Hi all,
See the scenario is like this :-
-There is a planning area, in that planning area there are planning books.
-If I select a particular one it is giving me screen which is proper.
-On that screen I have two drop down selection fields which are the main concern of this issue(take them as group and subgroup).
-So if I do selection from subgroup first it is showing me details of subgroups.
-But after this selection if I go to group selection it is wiping the subgroup selection and only givin info about groups. It is not showing hierarchy as Group->Subgroup-> Data.
-I want the above execution (<u><b>Group->Subgroup->Data</b></u>)after going 1st to subgroup and then to group will this is possible???
Its urgent If anyone has idea about how to manage the execution of DP planning books please revert back.
note- it is working properly on backend but it is showing this problem on portal screen.
Should I go for new transaction iview for that???
Regards,
Aditya

Dear Vijay,
I doubt if there is any standard settings or configuration is there for this functionality. What i can suggest is either you add seperate key-figures for displaying total of all the periods and write macros to populate key-figure values in it. The second option is initiallize the key-figures for an extra bucket which is really required by the business and populate the total in that extra period by writing macro. By second method there will not be extra key figure required. Apart from writing macros you can use BAPIs for reading the key-figure and adding it and finally populating the key figure values in the key-figure but this is not required as macro is sufficient for populating the key-figure in both the cases.
Please let me know if you think any other better way of doing it.
Regards,
Mukesh Pandey

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