I would like to have a calculated measure (rolling_sum) that sums up all the values up to a selected month in the year and I would like to be able to query this measure without the date dimension.
So, I have the following calculated member:
SUM(YTD(),[Measures].[Value])
Querying this measure works fine when the query includes the date dimension, however I would like to be able to query this measure by other dimensions without the date dimension.
Would this be possible?
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I am currently attempting to use DAX queries to calculate the proportion of the balance attributed to each State in my analysis cube, from the following image:
I currently have a Sales table with a ReportDateKey that joins a ReportDate table that has a DateKey
If I use the following statement:
AllCurrentBalanceByDate:=CALCULATE([TotalCurrentBalance],ALLSELECTED())
It gives me the overall total, ignoring the date altogether, which is a useless figure.
If I enter the following query and display it in the excel spreadsheet:
AllCurrentBalanceByDate:=CALCULATE([TotalCurrentBalance],ALLSELECTED('Report Date'[Month]))
it is returning the same data as found in the Balance column. Again, useless. I need a total for each month, so that I can calculate the state balance / overall total for that month to get the proportion/percentage attributable to that State.
What am I doing wrong?
So if you want your measure to ignore whichever State is selected, you need to include the State columns in your ALL filter.
Also I suppose you want to use ALL instead of ALLSELECTED as your overall balance per month shouldn't be affected by external filters on state (but this depends on your use case)?
AllCurrentBalanceByDate:=CALCULATE(SUM([CurrentBalance]),ALL(Geography[StateName]))
I have a multidimensional cube that needs a custom measure that I'm not sure how to build.
That data looks like this:
MemberID-----Date-------EventType
1--------------1/1/2016-------1
2--------------1/1/2016-------2
3--------------2/1/2016-------1
2--------------2/1/2016-------2
4--------------2/1/2016-------2
There is a count measure in the cube, but others can be added if needed. I need to create a measure that will use whatever filters the user applies and then count the EventType (1 and 2 only) by month, divide the resulting counts for EventType 1 into the count for EventType 2 (for each month individually), and finally sum the monthly results. For example 1/1/2016 would be 1/1=1 (count of EventType 1 and count of EventType 2) and 2/1/2016 would be 1/2=0.5 so the resulting measure value for the two months would be 1+0.5=1.5. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Let's assume you have a Date dimension with an attribute called Month. And let's assume you have an EventType dimension. And let's assume you have a count measure in your measure group called Cnt. Here's what else you need to do.
First, go to the DSV and add a new calculated column to the fact table which is called NullInt and is the following expression:
cast(null as int)
Then create a new Sum measure in your measure group off that column and call the measure My Rollup. Under the Source property, change NullHandling to Preserve so that it will start off null.
To explain why we're doing this, a scoped assignment to a physical measure will aggregate up. (If you assign a value to a physical measure at the grain of each month, then it will rollup to the grand total.) But a scoped assignment to a calculated measure doesn't roll up.
Then in your MDX script add the following calculations:
scope([Date].[Month].[Month].Members); //calculate at the month level then rollup
[Measures].[My Rollup] = DIVIDE(
([Event Type].[Event Type].&[1],[Measures].[Cnt]),
([Event Type].[Event Type].&[2],[Measures].[Cnt])
);
end scope;
Note that your version of SSAS probably has the DIVIDE function if it's AS2012 with the latest service pack or newer. But if it doesn't, you can always do division the old fashioned way as IIF(denom=0,null,num/denom).
I would like to calculate Sum(QTY) until the start date of the month for a given date.
Basically I can calculate Sum(QTY) until given date in my measure like:
SumQTYTillDate:=CALCULATE(SUM([QTY]);FILTER(ALL(DimDateView[Date]);DimDateView[Date]<=MIN(DimDateView[Date])))
But I also would like to calculate Sum(QTY) for dates before 10/1/2015 - which is the first date of selected Date's month. I have changed above measure and used STARTOFMONTH function to find first day of the month for a given date like;
.......DimDateView[Date]<=STARTOFMONTH(MIN(DimDateView[Date]))))
but not avail, it gives me
"A function ‘MIN’ has been used in a True/False expression that is
used as a table filter expression. This is not allowed."
What am I missing? How can I use STARTOFMONTH function in my measure?
Thanks.
STARTOFMONTH() must take a reference to a column of type Date/Time. MIN() is a scalar value, not a column reference. Additionally, your measure wouldn't work, because STARTOFMONTH() is evaluated in the row context of your FILTER(). The upshot of all this is that you would get a measure which just sums [QTY] across the first of every month in your data.
The built in time intelligence functions tend to be unintuitive at best. I always suggest using your model and an appropriate FILTER() to get to what you want.
In your case, I'm not entirely sure what you're looking for, but I think you want the sum of [QTY] for all time before the start of the month that the date you've selected falls in. In this case it's really easy to do. Add a field to your date dimension, [MonthStartDate], which holds, for every date in the table, the date of the start of the month it falls in. Now you can write a measure as follows:
SumQTY=SUM(FactQTY[QTY])
SumQTYTilStartOfMonth:=
CALCULATE(
[SumQTY]
;FILTER(
ALL(DimDateView)
;DimDateView[Date] < MIN(DimDateView[MonthStartDate])
)
)
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.
I am new to BI and need help to create a calculated member.
I have a cube with following dimension and measure:
Dimension tables:
Dim_Time (Year, Month, Day)
Dim_MyValueCollection: DataType with data types having values 'Gross Paid Claims' and 'Gross Written Premiums'
Measure:
FactTable.Value
I need to create a calculated member on Dim_MyValueCollection.DataType to represent the difference of 'Gross Written Premiums' values in current and previous year.
To get data from a previous period in mdx you can use these functions:
Lag
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms144866.aspx
ParallelPeriod
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms145500.aspx
Have you attempted any mdx ?
Edit
Here is a general tuple for the change in Gross Written Premiums since the same period in the previous year. I've guessed the names of your dimensions because you have not supplied any sample mdx:
([Time].CURRENTMEMBER, [Measures].[Gross Written Premiums])
-
(PARALLELPERIOD(Year,1,[Time].CURRENTMEMBER), [Measures].[Gross Written Premiums])