how to make absolute sum?

[#1]

Hi,

I'm doing fabs(sum(a) - sum(b)) , in a pivot table.

by row, the calculation is good. all figures are in positive.

but, the partial total in pivot is not good, it still do the sum according to the original negative values...

any helps please...

[#2]

Well, i got the solution.

The calcutlation was doing the sum of the gap in each row.

So, if we are doing it like this fabs( sum (a - b)  ) , the total value will still take the minus sign into the calculation.

But, this sum( fabs( a - b ) ) , will fix the problem.

[whiteline]

Hi.

This will work only if you have one a and b value for each of your dimension values.

More common solution is:

=sum(aggr(fabs(sum(a)-sum(b)), Dimesnion)))