
Tips Recipes Brio 2002
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Section Type: Pivot section
Tip Name: Reporting the Break % of the Total
Purpose / Use: To create a report that properly displays the percent of the grand total
for each grouping.
Sample File: Break percent of total.bqy
Steps to Produce: The Report section by itself cannot actually produce this report with the
correct numbers. You need to embed a special pivot into the report to
replace the default table object.
1) In the Results section, create a Computed Item to calculate the grand total of the revenue.
Name this item “Total Amt” and use the following formula:
Sum ( Amount )
2) Next, create a second Computed Item named “Pcnt of Grand” using the formula:
Amount / Total_Amt
3) Now, insert a pivot section.
• Place one or more dimensions into the side labels
• Place “Amount” into the Facts twice. Right-click on the second “Amount2” column and
change the data function to be “% of Column”.
• Add the “Pcnt of Grand” column to the Facts.
• Click on the Side Label column and then click on the toolbar’s Sigma button.
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