Pivot table logic....

Question

Hi All -
I need to create a pivot table on the following data :
Country : List of country names in one column
Cases : Case #'s of the cases which were raised for individual countries
Open Date: Date when the case was raised
Closed Date: Date when a particular case is closed
Query : we need to show the open and closed cases for a particular country on the basis of month...
Row of the pivot should be Country... In the column we need to have the month name and under it we need to have the count of open cases and count of closed cases...
could you please help me out in this?
The following is the view of the pivot table for example:
_____________________ January__________________________February_____________
Country Name______open Cases__Closed Cases_________open Cases____ closed Cases
Thanks!
Edited by: user8021111 on Dec 8, 2011 5:05 PM

Answer 1

user8021111 wrote:
Hi All -
I need to create a pivot table on the following data :
Country : List of country names in one column
Cases : Case #'s of the cases which were raised for individual countries
Open Date: Date when the case was raised
Closed Date: Date when a particular case is closed
Query : we need to show the open and closed cases for a particular country on the basis of month...
Row of the pivot should be Country... In the column we need to have the month name and under it we need to have the count of open cases and count of closed cases...
could you please help me out in this?
The following is the view of the pivot table for example:
_____________________ January__________________________February_____________
Country Name______open Cases__Closed Cases_________open Cases____ closed Cases
Thanks!
Edited by: user8021111 on Dec 8, 2011 5:05 PMDo this:
Assumption: You have a processing date column, I'lll call "Full Date" that is the date column you will use to track the "counts" of open and closed cases. The assumption is that in your database, this date column contains the "end of month" processing date for each month (e.g., 10/31/2011, 11/30/2011, 12/31/2011, etc.)
1) In the Rows section of your pivot table, put the Country column.
2) In Criteria mode, click on the fx button of the "Full Date" column and enter this
MONTH("Full Date")
This will give you the "month." Put this column in the Columns section of your pivot table.
3) In Criteria mode, click on the fx button of the Open Date column and enter COUNT(Open_Date_column). Put this column in the Measures section of your pivot table.
4) Do the same as step 3) for the Closed Date column.
So by putting the MONTH("Full Date") column in your Columns section of the pivot table, OBIEE will break out the Open Date and Closed Date counts by each month. That's how you do it.