Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion.

Edited by AnthonyJ - 06 Dec 2007 at 10:26am

Hey Anthony,

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Re your question, this is pretty techinical and can be a bit tough to answer over a forum. When you get the book from Amazon, check out the Advanced Tutorials starting on page 497. They will give you lots of good tricks for customizing cross-tabs.

For a cross-tab to have different data on each row, you need a formula to identify each row and which metric it gets. Here is an example formula caled {@MetricType}:

If {field}="type1" Then
   "abc"
Else
   "xyz";

This categorizes each row and also gives it a label that can be displayed in the cross-tab.
Second, you need to use this formula to determine which metric to calculate for a row. Something like this:

EvaluateAfter({@MetricType});
If {@MetricType}="abc" Then
   X*12
Else
   X/2;

Of course, use formulas that are applicable to your situation. In the cross-tab report, put the {@FormulaType} formula in the Rows area and put the metric calculation in the Columns area.

Play around with these ideas and see if it gets you what you need.