Hi All,
I've been doing some extensive research on this and I'm having a fairly hard time figuring this out. I searched this forum, searched through various search engines, and I'm unable to find anything directly related to it. So I'm opting to create a thread in hopes for some guidance.
For starters, I'm utilizing BusinessObjects SP6 Patch 1 with Dashboard Designer SP6 Patch 1. I built out a Web Intelligence report, with an IDT Universe, and published a block as a web service and I've linked the Dashboard to it (BIWS). In order to verify I'm seeing this properly, I took a snapshot of the data, in the Excel spreadsheet, within the previewed Dashboard. Data is coming through, so I know that's not a problem.
Now then, I'm having a hard time figuring out the right formula, or if this might be something that needs to be done through an ETL tool on the database itself. At any rate, this is a sample model I'm trying to utilize for my Excel spreadsheet in Dashboard Designer (Column C is the expected results):
Column A Column B Column C
Bicycle 1 Bicycles - 2
Bicycle 0 Doll - 1
Bicycle 1 Truck - 2
Doll 0
Doll 1
Truck 1
Truck 0
Truck 1
I'm not looking for the name in there, I just want the SUM of orders based upon the change of the data in Column A. I would expect it would be a SUMIFS statement, and the closest I could get to it is:
=SUMIFS(B:B,A:A, "Bicycle",B:B, 1)
However, this only SUMs values for just Bicycle, and I would have to duplicate this formula for each item (Doll & Truck, respectively). I was wondering if there was a formula (Thinking potentially a nested formula) that would display the data in a list. I know this would require checking for each name, but then as the database grows, I'd rather not have to manually change the hard coded information to calculate for each new item in Column A. I'm not sure that this is possible, that's why it's been kind of hard to find the right information for this particular issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance,
-Victor
