Hi
I am currently working on building a expense budget on SSAS 2008 R2.
I have a dimension named 'Scenario' which has members - Acutal, Budget 1, budget2, Budget 3.. I also have calucated member 'Variance' under Scenario. When a user drops the scenario dimension, it displays Actual, Budget1, Budget2, Budget, Variance on columns.. and let the users allow to hide any columns they want using filter.
There are also Date dimension and Accounts
The issue I have is that it displays total of Actual and Budget in subtotal and Grand total in Excel instead of displaying the total by Scenario Dimension.
Accounts dimension will always be on Row lable (Row in Excel pivot) and Scenario will always be on column lable with Date Dimension. is there any way to display total by Actual and Budget in Grand Total (by Scenario dimension)???
I am aware that I can have Scenario dimension on Row Lable with Accounts. The problem is that Account dimension is parent-child dimension and when it joins with Scenario dimension, the scenario dimension doesn't become a part of account dimension... at the top level, it always display Scenario dimension. This is very annoying and confusing for users not to mention some accounts have a long list of members. Also Accounts does not have the same level of hierarchy which makes it even more confusing.
Accounts dimension, not likely normal accounts dimension, has the list of suppliers as the part of accounts. It consists of accounting accounts + suppliers to display expense by accounts and supplier because users want to budget by the supplier level under each expense accounts. Therefore users only wants to see Scenario dimension at the last level ... always under supplier not accounts.
I hope my explanation is good enough to understand my situation.
Can anyone suggest an idea to overcome this issue?
thanks!