Rpd Modelling, Report design - Forecast Measure

Hi,
I have a reporting requirement to compare the forecast measures across months:
The report format is such: Dashboard Prompt => 'Month' Selection... say M1
If month not selected in the prompt then take the current month, say M1
Revenue
Month - 3 months 120
Month - 2 months 110
Month - 1 month 100
Taking M1 = Aug in above scenario:
Revenue
May 120
June 110
July 100
How should i show the previous months data in my report given a value for a month? In this case previous 1month, 2 month and 3 month.
Thanks

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. But I am not able to achieve this scenario with pivot table. Maybe you can explain how to achieve it with pivot table or some other approach. I will explain again:
Prompt: Month= M1
Forecast Revenue
M1 -1month
M1 -2months
M1- 3months
Say M1 = Aug
Forecast Revenue
July
June
May
Thanks

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1) on the formula the SUM (forecast($)) BY EMPLOYEE LEVEL2 but the data is not matching the real data..
2) I also tried to use the FILTER function on the formula but I don't know how to filter it since it requires a filter_expression that I cannot give, I just want to show on that "Forecast ($) for Emp Level 2" column the forecast measure by that level 2..
3) I also tried UNION but on the results the report is showing as well the LEVEL 2 for the employee and we do not want it since we want to show all LEVEL3 only...
do you know how to do this?
thank you!!!!

Are you sure the brackets are in the right location?
This:
SELECT
0 s_0,
"A - Sample Sales"."Sales Person"."E1 Sales Rep Name" s_1,
"A - Sample Sales"."Sales Person"."E9 Manager Name" s_2,
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FROM "A - Sample Sales"
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works fine for me
Regards
John
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2. The JRC can't report off of Oracle directly, you would need to use a JDBC driver to connect your reports to Oracle.Â The crdb_oracle.dll will never connect because its not Java.Â
3. When the JRC finds that the report is not using a supported database driverÂ it will do a lookup to find the name of the report datasource.Â When it finds the datasource name it will then do a JNDI lookupÂ for a JDBC datasource with theÂ same name.Â If your Application server doesn't have a datasource with that name it will through the error you were seeing.Â
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http://diamond.businessobjects.com/blog/10

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