I am using Excel to query an OLAP SSAS cube. Without any filter, the pivot table I have is:
| Values | |
| SCM Lines Count | 94741 |
| OTR_Net | 87.28% |
| OTD_Net | 95.00% |
I need to consolidate these metrics on the first complete months of the year. So I create a named set. The corresponding code in the MDX query that Excel generates is:
SET [YTD] as VisualTotals({[Delivery Date].[Period Hiearchy].[All],YTD(StrToMember("[Delivery Date].[Period Hiearchy].[Month].&"+
FORMAT(Now(),"[yyyyMM01]")+ ".PrevMember"))})When I drag and drop this set to the columns area of the pivot table, I get this:
| Values | 2014-01 | 2014-02 | Grand Total |
| SCM Lines Count | 3715 | 3608 | 7323 |
| OTR_Net | 81.77% | 84.77% | 83.24% |
| OTD_Net | 91.66% | 94.33% | 92.97% |
So far so good, but I would like to remove the months and only keep the Grand Total. But you cannot move a set to the page filter area, so I tried the following workaround with the add-in "OLAP Pivot table extensions": I remove the set from the
columns area (the result changes back to the first table above), and add a calculated metric:
[Measures].[YTDCount] AS Aggregate([YTD],[Measures].[SCM Lines Count])
And - surprise -, I get the result below: The other metrics are also filtered on the [YTD] set, even though it is not explicitly set as a filter in the pivot table.
| Values | |
| SCM Lines Count | 7323 |
| OTR_Net | 83.24% |
| OTD_Net | 92.97% |
| YTDCount | 14646 |
The final MDX query is:
WITH
SET [YTD] as VisualTotals({[Delivery Date].[Period Hiearchy].[All],YTD(StrToMember("[Delivery Date].[Period Hiearchy].[Month].&"+
FORMAT(Now(),"[yyyyMM01]")+ ".PrevMember"))})
MEMBER [Measures].[YTDCount] as AGGREGATE([YTD],[Measures].[SCM Lines Count])
SELECT {[Measures].[SCM Lines Count],[Measures].[OTR_Net],[Measures].[OTD_Net]} DIMENSION PROPERTIES PARENT_UNIQUE_NAME,HIERARCHY_UNIQUE_NAME ON COLUMNS FROM [METRICS] CELL PROPERTIES VALUE, FORMAT_STRING, LANGUAGE, BACK_COLOR, FORE_COLOR, FONT_FLAGSEven if I unselect my custom metric YTDCount (which gives twice the correct result btw), the result for the other metrics remains unchanged. The final pivot table is indeed what I wanted, but I do not want to use what seems a dirty hidden trick.
Can anyone explain why the custom metrics also impacts other measures ?
Would anyone have a proposal for a set definition that would generates either only one column or a hierarchy where I could hide the month level. ?
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