XL-Reporter - Financial Periods specified in row and column selections

Question

Hello to all,
again I have no idea how to solve an XLR problem after I tried different ways with unwanted results and after trying to find suggestions in the samples and help files.
As a result I need a report which looks roughly like this
       2007 2006 2005 ...
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Dec.
where each cell of the matrix is the total of invoices of a selected customer over the month in the specified year.
I mainly tried to solve this in two different ways.:
1.)
Definition of a parameter for finacial period: name=fp, dimension, type=financial period, attribute=code
Column selection summary for each year: PER(code=YearAll(@fp)) resp. PER(code=YearAll(@fp-12)) ...
Row selection expansion: BPA(CardCode=@customer) ARDT(Code=Invoice) PER(PeriodInYear=1:12) Group By PER.PeriodInYear
In each cell of the matrix the data attribute =ixGet(SO_LineTotal) is specified.
The cell in the first colum (month) of the matrix is =ixDimGet(PER; PeriodInYear).
2.)
No parameter for the financial period is defined;
Column selection summary for each year: PER(Year=2007) resp. PER(Year=2006) ...
The rest is the same as in 1.)
As a result I actually get a matrix with a column for each year and a row for each month, where the first column is 1, 2, ..., 12 (this is OK).
But for all 12 month I get the same value, which is the (correct) total value for the whole year!
Where is the failure in my intuition?
Many thanks for your help!
Regards,
Frank Romeni

Answer 1

I found it works if I don't set the selection to period in the Column and row.   Here are my selections
Row
Row 8-9  Expanding
PER( * )  Group By PER.PeriodInYear
Row 9 Expanding
FACT BPA( CardCode = @BPCode ) ARDT( Code = "Invoice" )
Column
Column C Expanding
FACT FIG( SO_TaxDate >= "01/01/2007" ) PER( * )  Group By PER.Year
then I use a Column total to total the row expansion of the SO_LineTotal  with =SUM( ixRef(C9,2) ) were C9 is the expanding SO_LineTotal.  Then I hide Row 9 in excel to hide the details.
If you post your email I can send you the IXR report definition
Dan