I need a Kind of 3 dimensional report (not sure if it s the right term)

Question

Post Author: rtutus
CA Forum: General
Hi,
I have category, Products and sales data.
I want a report that displays products and categories, grouped by categoriy ID. Each category of each group has a number of products.
Here is the challenge:I want the report to include several months, for january for example: I need the categories and their sub products and for each group I want the total sales of each product for September.
I also want the same thing for February, March....etc all in the same report on different columns.
Something like this:
Category    Product    Sales for Jan             Sales for Feb                   Sales for Mar..etcCategory1  Product11    xxxxx                          xxxxx                                  xxxx                 Product12    xxxxx                          xxxxx                                  xxxx                 Product13    xxxxx                          xxxxx                                  xxxxCategory2                 Product21    xxxxx                          xxxxx                                  xxxx                 Product22     xxxxx                          xxxxx                                  xxxx                 Product23    xxxxx                          xxxxx                                  xxxxCategory3                 Product31    xxxxx                          xxxxx                                  xxxx                 Product32    xxxxx                          xxxxx                                  xxxx                 Product33    xxxxx                          xxxxx                                  xxxxPls note that I have my data pretty much in the same table.
Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Post Author: V361
CA Forum: General
If the crosstab doesn't work out for you, just do your grouping, (say, Group by products, categories (by id) then date,  and use multiple columns
go to details section, section expert, select format with multiple columns,
you should see a layout tab pop up, selecting the tab will let you chose column width,
gap between details and data direction ( IE... left to right, or top to bottom)
there is also a format group with multiple columns box to check if needed.