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Based on a star schema model in OBIEE, i create the following report in Answers:
Year > Customer Sector > Customer Ranking > Number of Customers > Profitability
I want to display the report so that, for a given year, sectors are displayed in order of overall profitability. After adding sub-totals on the "Customer Sector" level in the Answers report, and then sorting by profitability just sorts the profitability per customer ranking in ascending/descending order, but it doesnt sort on the total sum of profitability per sector.
Would anyone be able to provide some insight on how to go about this?
best regards
- Magnus

that sort is for individual values for that measure, but not for sub-totals.
if you want to sort on sub-totals, follow this:
i'm assuming that for that profitability column sub-total is sum of individual values for that segment..
create other column in criteria tab:
change it's fx to: sum(Profitability by Year, Sector)
then, keep first sort order asc/desc on this column
hide this column
apply 2nd sort order asc/desc on normal profitability column..
hope it resolve your issue....

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Seems I was a bit too quick in closing.
Sorry for opening two threads on this, but I need to get this solved as I'm on a tight deadline here...
The answer that pretty much solved my issue on sorting columns on sub-totals in Answers was:
if you want to sort on sub-totals, follow this:
i'm assuming that for that profitability column sub-total is sum of individual values for that segment..
create other column in criteria tab:
change it's fx to: sum(Profitability by Year, Sector)
then, keep first sort order asc/desc on this column
hide this column
apply 2nd sort order asc/desc on normal profitability column..
hope it resolve your issue.... I just have one more quick question:
I can now sort according to sub-total, but how can I hide this new column from my table view? Clicking on the red 'x' button totally removes it as a filter.. The "hide" checkbox in the properties of the column simply grays the column out and shows it without any numbers.
Thanks in advance
- Magnus

go to column properties (first option) > Column Format tab
you find hide check box.. select and save.
grays out the values in the column, which is correct and the same what we want..
But, you should look at that in compound layout, not in edit properties of table...
in compound layout, appears like it's hidden
or
achieve everything in pivot then exlude that particular column
Edited by: Kishore Guggilla on Nov 29, 2010 7:18 PM

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Hello guys
I have a report in pivot view where I have put call type on the column section. So the report looks like below with SUM applied at the column section:
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961587 wrote:
I am using 10g and I am trying to do a secondary sort on a total column. The columns in my pivot table are region, country, employee headcount by business unit and total headcount. I have the region sorted to get Americas, Asia/Pacific, and EMEA, but i can not get the countries under each region to be sorted by the total headcount.
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import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
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               double total_rain=0;
               double average=0;
               int col=0;
               int row=0;
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                                   total_rain=0;
                                   for( col=0;col<rain[row].length;col++){
                                      total_rain+=rain[row][col];
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                                           for(i=0;i<total.length;i++){
                                             System.out.printf("Total Rain=%.2f\n",total);
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                                                                      for(sort=0;sort<total.length-1;sort++)
                                                                           minIndex=sort;
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                                                                                if(total[index]<minValue)
                                                                                     minValue=total[index];
                                                                                     minIndex=index;
                                                                      total[minIndex]=total[sort];
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Edited by: happyfootsie on Dec 6, 2009 1:12 AM
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happyfootsie wrote:
Here is my issue How do I get the Highest and lowes number reported while How can I get the correct Month to print?OK, apart from the fact that you've dumped everything in one place as opposed to breaking up your logic, the main thing I can see is that you have no inherent mapping between the values that you're storing and the months that they apply to.
That's all fine while you're just pulling in the values (I assume that each block of 12 is listed from January to December), but the second you do a sort, you lose the fact that '114.93', which is probably now in last place (being the highest) actually referred to the month of January.
First suggestion: break it up into methods (a couple of suggestions would be 'getAverages() and 'sort()', but I'm sure there's more).
Second suggestion: Have a look at the Java Collections framework (you might want to start here). It has a shed-load of classes for doing exactly what you want.
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