Choose Tools | Totals. Creating a New Totals Definition

5-14 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Desktop 5. Click the drop-down button to select the data points to be totaled. Figure 5–21 Select the Data Points to Total All Data Points — displays totals for each set of appropriate data points. For example, if the table contains two columns of numeric data points, both columns display totals. However, data points not appropriate for the type of total are not displayed. In the example above, Region is a set of data points, but summing Region data points doesn’t make sense—it would be like trying to add “Central” to “East”. In this case, Regions are not summed even though you selected All Data Points. A specific numeric data point such as Profit SUM in the example —displays totals for the selected set of data points. A non-numeric data point such as Region in the example —when you select a non-numeric set of data points, the options for the totals in the first drop-down list are limited to only those options that apply to non-numeric data points. For example, if you select Region, sum of regions does not make sense. The only totals that make sense for non-numeric data points are Count, Count Distinct, Maximum, and Minimum. 6. Click one of the options for Placement of the totals data: Grand total at bottom —Calculates the Grand Total for a column and places it after the last row of the table or crosstab. Variance Calculates the variance. Variance is the sum of the squares of the differences between each value and the arithmetic mean divided by the number of values. Percentage of Grand Total Calculates the Grand Total of the row or column, then finds the percentage of the current column or row of the Grand Total. Note: If you choose the All Data Points option when your Worksheet contains Calculations, the Calculation is applied to the Totals. Discoverer Desktop does not total the Calculations, see Section 5.3.2, Totals and Calculations . Option Description Working with Discoverer Desktop 5-15 Grand total at right —Calculates the Grand Total for a row and places it to the right of the last column in the crosstab. This option is only available from the Total dialog box for crosstabs. Subtotal at each change in —Calculates the subtotals for a column and places it at each new value for the selected item. Select the item from the drop-down list. For example, the subtotals for Regions appear at the end of the data for each Region. Figure 5–22 Select a Subtotal Placement 7. Now enter a Label for the totals data. You can click the drop-down menu for labels and choose additional options for the title from it. Figure 5–23 Create a Label for Totals Key to Figure 5–23 :

a. Click here and type a Label.

b. You can also select from this drop-down list to add various system values to the

label. The system values from the drop-down list produce labels that can change as the data changes by adding text codes such as “Item” and “Value” to the label when you insert them in the label text. In the actual labels on the table or crosstab, the ampersand