Reg : Urgent - How to provide a calculation for a period prior to the selection.

Question

Hi,
     I have a requirement to create a dashboard prompt for a range of dates . such as
from date (01/08/2012) -
to date (10/10/2012)
Now when I select this range in my dashboard prompt my report should be as shown
Location
Curent Period Sales
Previous Period Sales
India
Sales between (01/08/2012) to (10/10/2012)
Sales between (01/08/2011) to (10/10/2011)
How do I achieve this
Pls help
Thanks in advance
Reg
Niv

Answer 1

Hi Akshay,
   yup.. but the data wud b distributed wrto month having as many number of rows wrto the months though the column is hidden .
I had tried a way to put the from_date in a presentation variable - PV1 and
                                        to_date in a presentaion variable - PV2 .
Now i got the previous years same day and month by
I created another 2 new presentation variable P11 AND P22
which stores the previous period date values
I gave this formula in the EDIT FORMULA of the column of the dashboard prompt
VALUE OD P11 = TIMESTAMPADD(SQL_TSI_DAY,-365,@{PV1})  and
VALUE OF P22 = TIMESTAMPADD(SQL_TSI_DAY,-365,@{PV2})
Now I created two reports in a same criteria where
report 1 uses presentation variables PV1 and PV2 (to get current sales)
and
report 2 uses presentation variables P11 and P22(to get previous period sales)
and combined using UNION.
When I select all the 4 dates in Dashboard prompts, I get the respected report .
But both the sales come in the same column like
Location               Sales
India                414413.2231(current period)
India                     546623.7(previous period)
U.S                   534872.223
U.S                     912452.23
I want them as two diff columns and want to hide my dashboard prompts P11 and P22
Is there any cahnges to be done or another way to achieve this scenario , pls help.
Thanks in advance
Reg,
Niv