Bug 182296 Crosstab - non-numeric measures
Feature request. Looking at the 2.2.M6 release, it seems that measures (the fields that can be in the matrix part of the output) need to be numeric. I looked at the spec documents and it seems there is no requirement for non-numeric measures
data/org.eclipse.birt.report.data.adapter/src/org/eclipse/birt/report/data/adapter/impl/DataSetIterator.java
for ( int i = 0; i < dimensions.size( ); i++ )
			{
				TabularDimensionHandle dimension = (TabularDimensionHandle) dimensions.get( i );
				List hiers = dimension.getContents( DimensionHandle.HIERARCHIES_PROP );
				
				assert hiers.size( ) == 1;
				TabularHierarchyHandle hierHandle = (TabularHierarchyHandle) hiers.get( 0 );
				if ( hierHandle.getDataSet( ) == null
						|| hierHandle.getDataSet( )
								.getQualifiedName( )
								.equals( cubeHandle.getDataSet( ).getQualifiedName( ) ) )
				{
					prepareLevels( query,
							resultMetaList,
							levelNameColumnNamePair,
							hierHandle );
				}
				else
				{
					
					/*Use different data set
					 Iterator it = cubeHandle.joinConditionsIterator( );
					 DimensionConditionHandle dimCondHandle = (DimensionConditionHandle) it.next( );
					 
					 if ( dimCondHandle.getHierarchy( ).equals( hierHandle ))
					 {
					 dimCondHandle.getPrimaryKeys( )
					 }*/
				}
			}