You have created a working Analyzer report; however you can make the data in the
report more useful if you can show the difference, in dollar amounts, between the
actual and budgeted expenses.
Follow the instructions below to enhance your report.
In the Pentaho User Console menubar, go to File -> Open.
Browse to /steel wheels/analysis and select Regional
Expense Report.
Click (Switch to Table Format) if
you are in chart mode when the report appears.
Right-click the Actual column and select User Defined Number ->
Calculated Number.
The New Calculated Number dialog box appears.
In the Name field, type Difference.
This step creates a new column in the report.
Select Currency ($) from the Format list so that the data in your
report displays as dollar amounts.
In the right pane of the dialog box, click so that a minus sign appears
next to [Actual]-.
Click Budget in the left pane and click to move it to the right pane so that you
create a formula that subtracts the budgeted expenses from the actual expenses,
[Actual]-[Budget]. Click OK.
The Difference column appears in the report.
Right-click the Region column and select Show Subtotals.
The subtotals for each region is displayed in the report.