XL Reporter Report for comparison of last month and current month sales

Question

Hi,
Our management requires an MIS report for comparison of sales in revenue and in terms of units for the last and the current month todate.
Is there a way to view this data for both the months together, without any user input?
Best Regards
Jyoti

Answer 1

Jyoti,
I'll try and explain the XLR Report you'd need for this.  This is isn't the best way to explain something like this, but I'll give it a shot.
-  Put an expansion on Row 8 and choose all Items (*), click Apply
-  In A8, put ItemCode
-  In B8, put Item Name
-  In C8, put Sales - A/R Row Total
-  In D8,put Sales - A/R Row Total again
-  Setup a Parameter
    -  Call it Period
    -  Dimension
    -  Financial Period
-  In Column D, put a column Summary and click into Financial Period
    -  click the button to open the selection window
    -  click to the parameter tab
    -  select your parameter and click OK and click Apply
-  In Column C, put a column Summary and click into Financial Period
    -  click the button to open the selection window
    -  click to the parameter tab
    -  in the bottom right corner, add a "-1"   it should look like this @Period-1
    -  click OK and click Apply
-  In C7 and D7 - choose Financial Period Code from formula builder
             (so you can see the period code at the column header)
This will show sales by item in the current Period (column D) and previous Period (column C)
Hope that helps and at least gets you going.  I can't guarantee those are perfect instructions from memory.
Brad Windecker
[Omega Business Solutions|http://www.omegagroup.com]