Newspaper style report (multiple column sets across the page)

Question

Hello,
I have an Answers report that displays the "top 20" and has only 2 narrow columns (name and total). So in the dashboard it looks like a long vertical strip:
aaa 999
aaa 999
aaa 999
aaa 999
It would look much nicer if it was a "newspaper style", where you have more than one column set across the page:
aaa 999 | aaa 999
aaa 999 | aaa 999
aaa 999 | aaa 999
Is this possible to be done using OBI EE? I searched for a "newspaper style" checkbox in the report properties (hoping that it would be that easy) but no luck... I couldnt find any posts in this forum either, maybe I am using the wrong terminology.
Thanks
Luis

Answer 1

Hi Luis,
yes, this is possible by using a pivot table. assuming you want 10 records per column, you need to do the following:
1) add a column to your report with this formula:
RCOUNT(Column) - 10 * FLOOR((RCOUNT(Column) - 1) / 10)
2) add another column to your report with this formula:
FLOOR((RCOUNT(Column) -1) / 10)
3) go to pivot table
4) add column 1) to Rows Section
5) add column 2) to columns section
6) add the other columns in measures box
7) add aggregation rule to "FIRST" for all columns in measures box
8) put measure label box in rows section under the box of column 2)
Regards,
Stijn