How to use Percentage Functions in Bex

Query Designer
Percentage functions in BEx query designer are used to calculate different types of percentages
as per the business requirement of the report. These functions are used in calculated key figures/
formulas of the query to calculate and display various percentage values with the symbol % as a
suffix.
Here is a business scenario of a BEx report in which all percentage functions available in BEx are used to
achieve the desired result ->
Screenshot of the Report in BEx Analyzer (Fig: 1) ->

Screenshot of the corresponding query in BEx Query Designer (Fig: 2) ->

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above report deals with the sales of different stores in different countries during april and may
months.Hence Country , Store Name characteristics are used as rows and KF selections April
Sales, May Sales are used as columns in the report. Formula Total Sales is nothing but the sum
of April Sales, May Sales.
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Using Percentage Variance (%) function:

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Calculation behind this formula:

April Sales % May Sales = 100 (April Sales May Sales) / abs (May Sales), when denominator
not equals zero.If denominator equals zero, then based on your BEx global settings, it displays
the character you set for division by 0operations.For example: #, X, blank space, 0 etc.
In (Fig: 1) -> % variance between April Sales, May Sales is calculated as highlighted below:

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Using Percentage Share (%A) function:

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Calculation behind this formula:

April Sales %A Total Sales = 100 (April Sales) / abs (Total Sales), when denominator not equals
zero. If denominator equals zero, then based on your BEx global settings, it displays the character
you set for division by 0operations.For example: #, X, blank space, 0 etc.
In (Fig: 1) -> % share of April Sales in Total Sales is calculated as highlighted below:

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Using Percentage Share of Result (%CT) function:

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Calculation behind this formula:

%CT Total Sales means -> Percentage share of Total Sales values in Result values of the
Report.
From (Fig: 1) -> % share of Total Sales values in Result values of the Report are calculated as
highlighted below:

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4. Using Percentage Share of Overall Result (%GT) function:

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Calculation behind this formula:

%GT Total Sales means -> Percentage share of Total Sales values in Overall Result values of
the Report.
From (Fig: 1) -> % share of Total Sales values in Overall Result values of the Report are
calculated as highlighted below:
Fig: 3 ->

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5. Using Percentage Share of Query Result (%RT) function:

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Calculation behind this formula:

There is no difference between functionality of %GT, %RT functions when the report does not have any
dynamic filter applied (as shown in Fig: 3 above).
But when a dynamic filter is applied, Overall Result values in the report are changed in
accordance with the filter value. Hence %GT function calculates % share values by considering
changed Overall Result values.
Here comes the importance of %RT function, this percentage function will always calculate
% share values with respect to the Query Result (i.e., Overall Result before the filter was
applied),which means %RT function works irrespective of the dynamic filter and the query
navigational state.
When a dynamic filter is applied on the report, the difference in functionality of the %GT, %RT functions can be
observed in the Fig: 4 below.
Note: dynamic filter is applied on the Country column with value BR Brazil.
Fig: 4 ->

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