MDX: Make Measure Value 0 based on flag - ssas

Would much appreciate any help on this.
I have a measure called "Sales" populated with values, however i am trying to turn the "Sales" value to 0, whenever the "Sales Flag" is set to 0.
Important Note: The Sales Flag is based on Date (lowest level of detail).
The difficulty that i am really experiencing and cant get a grip on, is how i am trying the display the MDX outcome.
As explained above, i would want to make the "Sales" value 0 whenever we have a 0 in the "Sales Flag" (which is based on the Date), but when I run the MDX Script I would wan't on the ROWS to NOT display the Date, but instead just the Week (higher Level to Date), as below shows:
I really have spent hours on this and can't seem to understand how we can create this needed custom Sales measure based on the Sales Flag on the date level, but having the MDX outcome display ROWS on Week level.
Laz

You need to define the member in the MDX before the select. Something like that:
WITH MEMBER [Measures].[Fixed Sales] as IIF([Sales Flag].currentMember=1,[Sales], 0)
SELECT [Measures].[Fixed Sales] on 0, [Sales Flag] on 1 from [Cube]
I am writing the code without SSAS here so it might not be the 100% correct syntax but you can get the general idea ;)
You can add the iif in the SELECT part but I find creating member to be the cleaner solution.
SELECT IIF([Sales Flag].currentMember=1,[Sales], 0) on 0, [Sales Flag] on 1 from [Cube]
If you have a control over the cube in SSAS you can create a calculated member there and you can access it easier.

Glad to hear if Veselin's answer works for you, but if not...
Several approaches are also possible.
Use Measure expression for Sales measure:
Use SCOPE command for Day level (if it's Key level of Date dimension). If it's not a key level you have to aggregate on EVERY level (week, year etc) to emulate AggregateFunction of Sales measure but with updated behavior for one flag:
SCOPE([Date].[Your Date Hierarchy].[Day].members,[Measures].[Sales]);
THIS=IIF([Sales Flag].CurrentMember = 1,[Measures].[Sales],0);
END SCOPE;
Update logic in DSV to multiply Sales column by SalesFlag. This is the easiest way from T-SQL perspective.

Related

MDX: return last value for selected items in Power BI

This is a question regarding SSAS Cubes, MDX formulas and Power BI.
I have a measure with the active members per each month. So when I select for example 2018 it shouldn´t aggregate but return the last available month with active members, and if I break down by month it should give the active members for each month.
So I have this formula which works almost fine if querying in MS Management Studio:
with member [Measures].[Last existing SOCIOS] AS
Max(
EXISTING [DIM FECHA].[Jerarquía].[MES NOMBRE].members,
iif([Measures].[ACTIVOS] = 0,null,
[Measures].[ACTIVOS])
)
select {[Measures].[Last existing SOCIOS]} on columns,
[DIM FECHA].[MES NOMBRE].members on rows
from [cubo_Compromisos]
where [DIM FECHA].[AÑO].&[2018]
I would prefer to have the november value returned at the 'All' level. But this is not my main problem. The real issue is that when I use this measure in Power BI it behaves differently: when selecting multiple months it ignores the selected values and just returns the last value for the whole year.
In the screenshot below I have added the value returned by the KPI Card because that is the value that I want returned:
If I select items like this it does it right, but I need it to select all months, and not just one because I am using this measure along others:
Does anyone know the right MDX function to use or an alternative?
Edited: 23-11-2018
It does the same in a Pivot Table connected to a SSAS Cube.When I add the date dimension to the table it works fine. But when using the date dimension and filtering it without the dimension added as rows it returns the value for the whole year.
The function you are looking at is LastChild. Last Child on the upper level of the hierarchy will return the value you are looking at.
I think that function can be used in the Cube design in SSAS - then this will be the standard behavior. If you want to do it with a query you need to do something like:
SELECT [Date].[Fiscal].[Fiscal Quarter].[Q1 FY 2002].LastChild ON 0
FROM [Adventure Works]
To get the last month of the 1st quater (I used example from microsoft and another post on the subject )

How to find the first value in a range in MDX

I'm trying to create an SSAS calculated measure off of an inventory cube. The underlying data contains an inventory_date, a product code, and some inventory values for the product for that date. I am trying to create a measure which will return the first inventory value for the month, for the product (and overall). I've seen people try to use the head function to no avail. I've also just seen a reference to the openingperiod function, which seems to be exactly what I want, but it also isn't returning the correct value. Both of them, FWIW, are returning the last value in the month rather than the first.
Here is a query that I am issuing:
select
[Measures].[Qty On Hand EOD] on 0,
{openingperiod([Inventory Date].[Calendar].[Month]):
[Inventory Date].[Calendar].[Month].&[2018-06-25T00:00:00]
} on 1
from [Daily Inventory]
This query returns for May 2018 the value of [Qty On Hand EOD] for May 31, rather than May 1, which is what I want. What am I doing wrong?
FWIW, in the cube definition the AggregateFunction property for [Qty On Hand EOD] is set to LastNonEmpty (as opposed to Sum or Avg). Could that play a role?

MDX expressions to aggregate data at certain level for calculated member

For now sometimes I have problems with creating difficult calculated members in SSAS. Is it possible to make case which will SUM certain measure on certain level when user choose another certain level of dimension? For example we have standard time dimension with 4 levels:
Year
Month
Week
Day
Also we have some measure orders which have default function SUM in properties.
Which case do we need to calculate this: sum all orders in week which including current day which we have chosen already.
Also could you recommend me some nook or source for level up my mdx knowledge?
Thanks a lot.
Yes, it's possible, when you use MDX functions, which are connected with levels.
Here is an example with Year > Quarter > Month > Day hierarchy:
Use MDX calculated member to have a SUM of upper level member children (including selected one):
The same if you want to create calculation inside the cube:
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Measures].[SameLevelMembers]
as SUM({[Report Date].[Report Date].CurrentMember.Parent.Children},[Measures].[Count]),
VISIBLE = 1 ;
And a result in cube browser:
Hundreds of articles you can find there: http://ssas-wiki.com/w/Articles#MDX
I also like this one: http://mdxpert.com because of well-structured info.

MDX Select measures between two values

I have a fact table which stores for each record an init_year and end_year as integers, which refer to the year range in which the record is valid.
In which way I can design a MDX query to select my measures (count) for each year, in order to have a trend of my measures over year?
THANKS
I'm not sure this should be done in MDX.
This sort of thing is usually calculated in the fact tables (linked to a dimension table of all available years), and a new measure is created. No calculation would be done in MDX; you'd just display the new measure.
Having said that, I've just Googled "MDX count start end date" and found www.purplefrogsystems.com/blog/2013/04/mdx-between-start-date-and-end-date which suggests you use the LINKMEMBER function. Their example code was...
AGGREGATE(
{NULL:LINKMEMBER([DATE].[Calendar].CURRENTMEMBER
,[START DATE].[Calendar])}
* {LINKMEMBER([DATE].[Calendar].CURRENTMEMBER
, [END DATE].[Calendar]):NULL}
, [Measures].[Project COUNT])
...or...
AGGREGATE({NULL:[DATE].[Calendar].CURRENTMEMBER}
, [Measures].[Project COUNT])
...but it needs careful reading!

Filtering a Dimension Relative to a CurrentMember in MDX

I'm having a bit of trouble accomplishing something that I think should be relatively straightforward in MDX. I would like to create a calculated member that provides a sum of one of my measures over the previous two weeks at a given point in time. My time dimension looks like:
TimeId TradingDate Day of Week
-----------------------------------
1000 11/1/2012 Thursday
1001 11/2/2012 Friday
1002 11/5/2012 Monday
1003 11/6/2012 Tuesday
... ...
What makes this particularly difficult is that my Time dimension is not quite complete. The members of my Time dimension only correspond to trading days in the stock market, and not all time. This means that weekends, holidays, or any other day in which the stock market is closed are excluded. This also means the normal methods of traversing time such as LAG or PARALLELPERIOD will not work quite right here. LAG(14), for example, means "14 trading days", which at any given point could represent a variable length of actual time.
Inside my calculated member, I'm attempting to use FILTER in order to get only time members that are within the previous two weeks of the CurrentMember. However, I can't seem to figure out the proper syntax (if there is one) to accomplish this. I imagine it would be something like:
WITH MEMBER [Sum of Price Previous 2 Weeks] AS
SUM(
FILTER(
[Time].[TimeId].Children
, [Time].[TradingDate].MemberValue
>= VBA!DATEADD("ww", -2, [Time].[TradingDate].CurrentMember.MemberValue)
)
, [Price]
)
However, this doesn't quite work. I can't seem to separate the context of the calculated members current iteration from what would be a separate context inside of the FILTER function. In other words, I'm not sure how to say:
"When iterating over the set inside of FILTER, compare the current
member of each iteration against the value of the CurrentMember in
the scope of the calculated member"
Is what I'm trying to accomplish even possible? Is there a different approach I could be taking to accomplish what I'm after?
The result you'll get from a calculated member will depend on the axis of your query. So first, make sure you have [Time].[TradingDate] in your axis.
Second, your [Time].[TradingDate] hierarchy should be ordered by Key (I assume TradingDate is the key).
Now you can use this member definition:
WITH MEMBER [Sum of Price Previous 2 Weeks] AS
SUM(
[Time].[TradingDate].CurrentMember.Lag(14):[Time].[TradingDate].CurrentMember, [Price]
)
You can use set aliases to refer to the outer CurrentMember in the Filter context:
WITH MEMBER [Sum of Price Previous 2 Weeks] AS
SUM(
GENERATE([Time].[TradingDate].CurrentMember AS CurrentDateAlias,
FILTER(
[Time].[TimeId].Children
, [Time].[TradingDate].MemberValue
>= VBA!DATEADD("ww", -2, CurrentDateAlias.Item(0).MemberValue)
)
)
, [Price]
)
GENERATE is used just to define the alias somewhere.