Special pivot table

Hi all
I need to add a new column to the following report (pivot table).
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In the report for the prog '1FA014' I have one line for 2009 and one line for 2010 The new column should be the sum of the two lines. (13968+353)
how can I create this new calculated column??
Regards

Thanks for the Help Christian.
I finally solved the problem by using the idea of 'by'grouping and I made a grouping on all the columns:
SUM("- GL Encumbrances"."Budgetted Amount"by ("- Full Segments".Entiteit||SUBSTRING("- Full Segments".Entiteit FROM 1FOR 3)||SUBSTRING("- Full Segments".Programma FROM 1FOR 6)||"- Full Segments".Programma||SUBSTRING("- Full Segments".ESR FROM 1 FOR 2)||"- Full Segments".ESR))
In the by clause I concatenated all the columns and it works perfectly.
Regards
Adil

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Excel Crashes when Editing PIVOT Tables

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In regarding of the issue, please provide us more information to assist you better.
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Then, we may try to collect the Event log and App crash dump file to do advanced troubleshooting.
Event log:
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App crash dump file:
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IF statement in Calculated Field for Share point, doesnt calculate sum in my Excel Pivot table.

Hi Everyone
I used this in SP calculated column field.
=IF([Shift Sched]="1pm to 10pm","0",IF([Shift Sched]="2pm to 11pm","1",IF([Shift Sched]="3pm to 12am","2",IF([Shift Sched]="4pm to 1am","3",IF([Shift Sched]="5pm to 2am","4",IF([Shift
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Can any one tell how to create pivot table

Hi ,
Am trying to create a pivot tabel in the MDM Import Manager. Iam able to see the preview of the pivot table which i want to create. But when i try to click "OK" button, an error message getting displayed like...
"The new table cannot be created because the data source is not updatable.You may need the data source to an updatable format such as Microsoft Access before proceeding".
Due to the above error am not able to create pivot table, plz let me know if any one know how to solve this problem
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Praveen k

Hi Praveen ,
The solution to your problem is -
The data source must be updateable in order for MDM to
create the new pivot or reverse pivot table. However, you can still
perform the steps leading up to table creation including the preview
even on a data source that is not updateable, so that you can explore
pivoting or reverse pivoting as a transformation option. If you then
decide you want to actually create the new table, convert the data
source into a format that is updateable (such as Microsoft Access) and
perform the pivot or reverse pivot on the new data source.
To create a pivot table, you must identify the source fields that
participate in the pivot, which ones contain metadata and which ones
contain data, which ones must be combined, the one-to-one
correspondence between metadata and data fields and/or field
combinations, and the key field or fields.
To create a pivot table:
1. In the drop-down list of source tables, make sure the table you want to
pivot is the current source table.
2. In the Source Hierarchy tree, select all the field nodes corresponding to
both the metadata fields and the data fields by which you want to pivot.
3. Right-click on one of the nodes and choose Create Pivot Table from the
context menu, or choose Source > Create Pivot Table from the main
menu
4. MDM opens the Create Pivot Table dialog
5. In the Key Fields dual-list drop-down control, move one or more fields
from the Available Fields list to the Selected Fields list to identify the
key fields on which to perform the pivot
6. In the dual-list control of fields, drag-and-drop the data fields from the
Field Values Become Field Names list to the Field Values Become
Field Values list
7. If necessary, select two or more fields in either list that must be
combined into a field combination, and click on the Combine button, or
right-click on one of the fields and choose Combine from the context
menu
8. If necessary, drag-and-drop fields or field combinations within each list
to create the one-to-one correspondence between metadata fields and
data fields.
9. Click on the Preview button to display a preview of the first ten records
of the pivot table
10. When you have verified that the pivot operation you have defined will
have the desired effect, click OK to close the Create Pivot Table dialog.
11. The MDM Import Manager creates a new table named table <Pivot>
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table).
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Hi All.
I have a request that has baffled me.
I need a way to use 'text' to describe the results of a report. If I were doing a simple report,
this would be a non-issue. Here are my hurdles:
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The results are then shown in a pivot table.
Within the pivot table, variances were created using 'New Calculated Item' under measures.
I want to be able to display in a narrative, or some other magical technique, the results of theses calculated items.
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<pre>
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*Until 11g, that is. There are also workarounds...

Not able to see data in Pivot table

Hi,
I have a issue with pivot table i have a column which displays values 0 and 1 and another column called month when i am placing this month column as a section and values column as a measure i am not seeing any values means i can see the month as header but instead showing 0 or 1 its showing blank columns. previously i created similar kind of table it worked but at that time values column data type is number this time its char. can anybody help me out how i can see the data in the pivot table. i already tried converting this column to number but still i am not able to see data in that values column.
Thanks

Hi copter,
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(I suppose your aggregation rules is default)....Correct this one and you can place it in sections as per your requirement.
Cheers,
KK

How to update ADF VO object to refresh the data in ADF Pivot table

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here are the steps I performed to create ADF pivot table application using VO at design time.
1) created a collection in a Data Control (ViewObject in an ApplicationModule) that provides the values I wanted to use for row and column labels as well the cell values (Used the SQL query)
2) Dragged this collection to the page in which wanted to create the pivot table
3) In the pivot table data binding editor specified the characteristics of the rows (which attribute(s) should be displayed in header), the columns (likewise) and the cells.
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DataValue = value;
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Hello guys,
This is my first post here so forgive if I'm asking in wrong place.
Maybe you can help me or give me some hint how can I check if data in pivot tables refresh event was finished.
So I'm using excel plugin that allows to load excel spread sheets from external source e.g application server,
in this reports there are define some pivot tables with olap connections. When report is opened data is automatically refreshed,
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foreach (Excel.Worksheet displayWorksheet in test)
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UI performance testing of pivot table

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could direct me to a tool that I can use to do performance testing on a pivot table. I am populating a pivot table(declaratively) with a data source of over 100,000 cells and I need to record the browser rendering time of the pivot table using 50 or so parallel threads(requests). I tried running performance tests using JMeter, but that didn't help.
This is what I tried so far with JMeter:
I deployed the application in the integratedweblogicserver and specify the Url to hit in JMeter ( http://127.0.0.1:7101/PivotTableSample-ViewController-context-root/faces/Sample) and added a response assertion for the response code 200. Although I am able to hit the url successfully, the response I get is a javascript with a message that says "This is the loopback script to process the url before the real page loads. It introduces a separate round trip". When I checked in firebug, it looks like request redirect of some sort happens from this javascript to another Url (with some randomly generated parameters) which then returns the html response of the pivot table. I am unable to hit that Url directly as I get a message saying "session expired". It looks like a redirect happens from the first request and then session is created for that request and a redirect occurs.
I am able to check the browser rendering time of the pivot table in firebug (.net tab), but that is only for a single request. I'd appreciate it if anyone could guide me on this.
Thanks
Naveen

I found the link below that explains configuration of JMeter for performance testing of ADF applications(Although I couldn't find a solution to figure out the browser rendering time for parallel threads).
http://one-size-doesnt-fit-all.blogspot.com/2010/04/configuring-apache-jmeter-specifically.html
Edited by: Naveen Ramanathan on Oct 3, 2010 10:24 AM

Removing (blank) from Pivot Tables Populated from Data Connection

It took me a long while to fix this one (and a long time to search, because it's a funny one to try to use boolean logic for) and I thought I would share because I've seen a score of folks out there looking for this.
If you have a pivot table with blank values in the row/column area instead of values, Excel automatically populates the cell with (blank). The word blank shows up in any cell that doesn't have a value, but what if you don't want all those ugly (blank)
values showing up in your report?
If you're pulling the data from an outside source, like a SQL server (in my case from the Project Server Reporting database) then you can't just change the source data, so you seem pretty stuck.
My coworker and I came up with the following fix:
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Hi,
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Hi,
I have created a Pivot Table report (I use them all the time in Excel) as one of my rows...I am using a field that is a formula. When I look at the pivot table results there is a sum by this "row category"...all total 1726 items (correct # of total items' but the sum by each of the 4 items is wrong...when I drill (I can only drill from a higher level)...I get the detail of the 1726 items correctly...but if I do a pivot in Excel off the detail I get a different number in the 4 categories (actually the correct summary data)....HOW do I fix this...we really want to use the power of the report...but with such a large error it is difficult to trust the results of the report.
Report
Source Type     MAG Created Year     Parent Account     Target Market     # of Accounts
Marketing     2004     Unspecified     Key Account     2,521
          Quanta Services Inc     Key Account     1
     2005     Unspecified     Key Account     388
          Vipar Heavy Duty     Key Account     29
     2006     Unspecified     Key Account     824
     2007     Unspecified     Key Account     838
          Domino's Pizza     Key Account     9
     2008     Unspecified     Key Account     582
Marketing                    5,192
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When you drill down...for instance...the data for 2007 Unspecified is 358 NOT 838....
Please assist!!! ASAP

It is very difficult to troubleshoot a report without seeing it, but it looks to me like you have a problem with your aggregation rules... each column has an aggregation rule, and a pivot table measure can also have an aggregation rule... sometimes, depending on the formula and columns that make up your formula, the aggregation rules can cause seemingly incorrect totals because the data is aggregated on the table and then re-aggregated on the pivot table.
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Mike L

Pivot Table - Calculate Variance - Hidden Fields?

I need some help adding a target value field inside a pivot table in excel.
Here is what my current pivot table looks like.
Regions                 1 year - Actual              1 year - Target??
Difference
                  (April 2013 to MArch 2014)
(Target - Actual)?
Region1                $6,355,696.75
Region2                $6,775,309.87
Region3                $2,230,424.76
Regions expand into managers which in turn expand to consultants.
What I want to do is add a column for target values of the 3 different regions and then create another calculated field that will show the difference between the target and actual values.
Can this be done without writing any stored procedures in SQL? I want to do this in excel itself.
The target values are not calculated so can we store them in hidden fields or something in the pivot or excel?

1. Click anywhere in Pivot and go to Options tab > Formulas > Calculated Field.
2. Create a calculated field called Target (whatever name your choose). If your target is say 7000000, put this value in Formula field. You may put it with or without =
3. Now after this, you can once again create a new Calculated Field. Let's say this is Variance. If you variance is Target - Actual, put this as =Target-Actual in Calculated Field.
4. Your pivot will have whatever you wanted.

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