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Pivot - adding a calculated field based on grouped totals, NOT source fields

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    Pivot - adding a calculated field based on grouped totals, NOT source fields

    Think of a pivot table whose source data is something like the following:

    (each row represents a sales opportunity)

    Opportunity Name | Amount | Source

    Opp 1 | $100 | Alpha
    Opp 2 | $200 | Alpha
    Opp 3 | $50 | Beta
    Opp 4 | $100 | Beta



    I've grouped the opportunites together by Source, which is one of the Column Labels of my pivot table - so, for example, I will group opps by Fiscal Quarter, then subgroup them by Alpha and Beta, so for each quarter I have totals for Alpha opps and Beta opps.

    The calculated field I want to add would show the difference between the TOTALS of the Alpha and Beta groups for each quarter. Something like the following, where I would have an additional column which would = (Alpha-Beta) for each total:


    Q1--------------------------------Q2
    Alpha--|-- Beta--|--Variance--||--Alpha--|--Beta--|--Variance--||
    $150 --|--$200--|-- ($50)-----||--$300--|--$100--|--$200-----||


    Unfortunately, from what I can see Calculated Fields only work with the original source table's columns. I can't use it to write formulas using grouped totals as variables. Can anyone tell me if this is possible?
    Last edited by smohyee; 11-01-2013 at 11:49 AM.

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