Tricky Situation with Disco columns!!

Question

The problem is something like this..
I have a discoverer crosstab worksheet with a column axis called "Expenditure Category" which lists the expenditures (data point) against a list of employees (row axis). The expenditure categories that are present in the databse are, say, "ABC","DEF","XYZ".
Only ABC and DEF are the ones that need to be displayed under expenditure categories because their costs are in currency (INR). The costs for the expenditure type XYZ are in terms of HOURS and it needs to be displayed as a separate column (some calculation) alongside the employee names.
As of now, if i filter out the rows with expenditure category as "XYZ".. all those rows are lost and I cannot create any sort of calculation on them. On the other hand, if i include all those rows, then I get a column called "XYZ" under expenditure categories heading which I dont want.
Any suggestions ?

Answer 1

So are you saying that you want the XYZ to be an attribute of the Employee (thus in the left side drill) and not a fact (thus not in a cell) ?? And so it does not vary based on the cross-tab column, like the cost data does??
If so, then you want to create a folder that joins the Employee to the hours info calculation (choice of a folder based on database view, SQL folder, complex folder). Then you can use this Employee+Hours folder as your base instead of the standard Employees, and join that to the costs info and do your crosstab as you were.