OBIEE - TODATE and YTD Graphing

Dear all,
This is a difficult one I'm having.
I've got three measures. Income, Forecast and Variance. They've all got "TODATE" wrapped round them at RPD level and work fine in reports, alongside my "weekly" Income, Forecast and Variance measures.
I have a dashboard prompt with a single week at the top of my dash. When selected, it passes this week to an intermediate "week number driver" report which calculates -4/+4 weeks of the selected date.
I have my Income, Forecast and Variance measures in a line graph, which uses the following logic; "where Week Number is greater than or equal to any Start Week Number in Week Number Driver Report" and "where Week Number is less than or equal to any End Week Number in Week Number Driver Report".
This shows a graph with my selected week in the middle, four weeks back and four weeks forward from that date (e.g. Week 12 shows Weeks 8 to 16).
My problem is; For weeks 1 to 7 the YTD line values are correct over all measures. They show the YTD values I'm expecting. However, when I go to Week 8 onwards (so Week 8 is the first shown in the graph), the YTD values are incorrect. I guess this is because the system is "YTDing" using 8 as the starting week, instead of using Week 1 - can't confirm though.
Could anyone shed any light on this problem? How do I get the graph to calculate from Week 1, regardless of which -4/+4 period of weeks are shown?
Many thanks,
Alasdair
UPDADE: Doh! Wrong forum! My bad. Please see OBIEE forum and ignore this post!
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Analyze the physical query being generated for the report and you will have a clearer idea of what the engine is doing.

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TODATE and YTD Graphing

Dear all,
This is a difficult one I'm having.
I've got three measures. Income, Forecast and Variance. They've all got "TODATE" wrapped round them at RPD level and work fine in reports, alongside my "weekly" Income, Forecast and Variance measures.
I have a dashboard prompt with a single week at the top of my dash. When selected, it passes this week to an intermediate "week number driver" report which calculates -4/+4 weeks of the selected date.
I have my Income, Forecast and Variance measures in a line graph, which uses the following logic; "where Week Number is greater than or equal to any Start Week Number in Week Number Driver Report" and "where Week Number is less than or equal to any End Week Number in Week Number Driver Report".
This shows a graph with my selected week in the middle, four weeks back and four weeks forward from that date (e.g. Week 12 shows Weeks 8 to 16).
My problem is; For weeks 1 to 7 the YTD line values are correct over all measures. They show the YTD values I'm expecting. However, when I go to Week 8 onwards (so Week 8 is the first shown in the graph), the YTD values are incorrect. I guess this is because the system is "YTDing" using 8 as the starting week, instead of using Week 1 - can't confirm though.
Could anyone shed any light on this problem? How do I get the graph to calculate from Week 1, regardless of which -4/+4 period of weeks are shown?
Many thanks,
Alasdair

Analyze the physical query being generated for the report and you will have a clearer idea of what the engine is doing.

TODATE and AGO function errors in OBIEE

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Quarter - TIME_QTR_DM
Month - TIME_MTH_DM
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How to get Last Year Sales and YTD Sales without using AGO and TODATE?

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Hello everyone and thanks for the answers.
I only have the LabView Student Edition available here - is the toolkit included in it too. How can I check if it is installed/ available and in case it is installed - where can I find it?
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