mdx combination aggregate, periodtodate and dimension limitation - ssas

I have Hours ytd measure with the following syntax:
Aggregate(PeriodsToDate([Dim Time].[Fiscal Hierarchy].[Fiscal Year],
[Dim Time].[Fiscal Hierarchy].CurrentMember),[Measures].[Hours])
And i have normal hours (1):
([Dim Product].[Product hours type 2].&[1],[Measures].[Hours])
Now i'm trying to combine both of these, to have normal hours counting from the start of the fiscal year.
Tried the following and many more, but all return NULL:
Aggregate(PeriodsToDate([Dim Time].[Fiscal Hierarchy].[Fiscal Year],
[Dim Time].[Fiscal Hierarchy].CurrentMember),
([Dim Product].[Product hours type 2].&[1],[Measures].[Hours]))

Good night of sleep solved the issue..
(Aggregate((PeriodsToDate([Dim Time].[Fiscal Hierarchy].[Fiscal Year],[Dim Time].[Fiscal Hierarchy].CurrentMember),[Dim Product].[Product hours type 2].&[1]),[Measures].[Hours]))

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PY YTD calculated measure that can handle leap years MDX

This might be a longshot, but maybe there is an ssas/mdx guru here that has stumpled upon the same problem regarding aggregated calculations and leap years. So what I am trying to do, is to create a PY YTD calculated measure in an ssas cube that can handle leap years. The issue I am facing is that the calculated measure becomes extremely slow based on the logic below (see code sample). Has anyone found a better way to handle leap years or has a document with best practise to share ? I am assume that if-statements and NonEmpty function could be performance deadly for a calculated measure. All tips are greatly appreciated (Doesn't have to be a solution).
-- YTD PRIOR YEAR
[Time Calculations].[YTD Pr Yr] = IIF([Calendar].[Year - Month - Day].CurrentMember IS [Calendar].[Year - Month - Day].[Month].&[201702]
,Aggregate(
NonEmptyCrossjoin({[Time Calculations].[Current Period]},
PeriodsToDate(
[Calendar].[Year - Month - Day].[Year],
[Calendar].[Year - Month - Day].[Day].&[2016-02-29 00:00:00.000])
))
,IIF([Calendar].[Year - Month - Day].CurrentMember IS [Calendar].[Year - Month - Day].[Month].&[201602]
,Aggregate(
NonEmptyCrossjoin({[Time Calculations].[Current Period]},
PeriodsToDate(
[Calendar].[Year - Month - Day].[Year],
[Calendar].[Year - Month - Day].[Day].&[2015-02-28 00:00:00.000])
))
,(Aggregate(
NonEmptyCrossjoin({[Time Calculations].[Current Period]},
PeriodsToDate(
[Calendar].[Year - Month - Day].[Year],
ParallelPeriod(
[Calendar].[Year - Month - Day].[Year],1,
TAIL(DESCENDANTS([Calendar].[Year - Month - Day].CurrentMember
, [Calendar].[Year - Month - Day].[Day]),1).ITEM(0)))
)
)
)
)
);
Best regards,
Rubrix
Try the following, some caveats follow:
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Time Calculations].[YTD Prior Year] AS NULL;
/* Make sure the scope is for all days in all years in your calendar year */
Scope([Invoice Date].[Calendar Year].[Calendar Year].members, [Invoice Date].[Calendar Day].members);
// YTD PRIOR YEAR
([Time Calculations].[YTD Prior Year] =
iif(
/* Check to see if the prior year member is empty */
isempty(
ParallelPeriod(
[Invoice Date].[CY Hierarchy].[Calendar Year],
1,
[Invoice Date].[CY Hierarchy].CurrentMember
).MemberValue
),
/* If so, use the .LastChild */
Aggregate(
Crossjoin(
{[Time Calculations].[Current Period]},
PeriodsToDate(
[Invoice Date].[CY Hierarchy].[Calendar Year],
ParallelPeriod(
[Invoice Date].[CY Hierarchy].[Calendar Year],
1,
Ancestor(
[Invoice Date].[CY Hierarchy].CurrentMember,
[Invoice Date].[CY Hierarchy].[Calendar Month]
)
).LastChild
)
)
),
/* Otherwise just use the prior year */
Aggregate(
Crossjoin(
{[Time Calculations].[Current Period]},
PeriodsToDate(
[Invoice Date].[CY Hierarchy].[Calendar Year],
ParallelPeriod(
[Invoice Date].[CY Hierarchy].[Calendar Year],
1,
[Invoice Date].[CY Hierarchy].CurrentMember
)
)
)
)
)
);
End Scope;
One possible hitch is that if you have several days in a row where there are no transactions, .LastChild might not work accurately. I didn't have that situation when I originally developed this code. It was specifically developed to deal with this exact case of prior year-to-date and leap year nuances. It might need to be tweaked if that's the case.
This assumes that you have a proper time dimension and a time calculations dimension, which it looks like you do from the code sample you provided.
I would say that the performance of this solution is pretty great even on large cubes (hundreds of millions of rows).

MDX query producing #Error as output

In my SSAS Cube, I have a measure called [Sales Total]. What I want to do is to create another measure that would give me the lowest sales figure in the last 6 months. I want this to be a moving minimum, calculated as the min of sales of every time period from the present month to 6 months back.
I wrote my MDX statement but it produces an error and I have hard time trying to figure out why. It is something to do with aggregating Date dimension members into a filter aggregate.
When i choose a single month member from the Date hierarchy, it returns the correct value. When I select multiple members from the hierarchy, as seen below, it errors out.
Any kind of help is appreciated.
WITH
MEMBER [Measures].[Min Sales Total Rolling 6 months] as '(MIN([Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].currentmember.lag(6):[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].currentmember,[Measures].[Sales Total]))'
MEMBER [Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[FilterAggregate] as
'AGGREGATE({
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20141].&[201310],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20141].&[201311],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20141].&[201312],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20142].&[201401],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20142].&[201402],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20142].&[201403],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20143].&[201404],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20143].&[201405],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20143].&[201406],
[Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Quarter].&[20144].&[201407]
})'
SELECT {
[Measures].[Min Sales Total Rolling 6 months]} ON AXIS(0)
FROM [My Cube]
WHERE ([Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[FilterAggregate])
As explained in this blog by one of the SSAS developers already many years ago, multi select does not work with CurrentMember. You should use
MEMBER [Measures].[Min Sales Total Rolling 6 months] as
MIN(Tail(EXISTING [Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].Members).Item(0).Item(0).lag(6)
:
Tail(EXISTING [Date].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].[Fiscal Month Hierarchy].Members).Item(0).Item(0),
[Measures].[Sales Total])
instead.
EXISTING gets the set of all selected members. This is needed as there is no single CurrentMember. Then Tail gets the set consisting of the last of these members, Item(0).Item(0) converts that single element set to a member.

MDX TTM Calculated member - day level

I need to create a calculated member that calculates revenue for TTM (Trailing Twelve Months) associated to selected date (day level).
I tried something like this:
SUM(
{
[Accounting Effective Date].[Date Hierarchy].CurrentMember.Lag(365)
: [Accounting Effective Date].[Date Hierarchy].CurrentMember
},
[Measures].[Revenue]
)
But this doesn't work with leap year, for example if I pick 2013-01-01 than it returns 2012-01-02.
I have also tried this but this one is also not good since it takes first day of the month:
SUM(
{
[Accounting Effective Date].[Date Hierarchy].CurrentMember.Parent.Lag(12).FirstChild
: [Accounting Effective Date].[Date Hierarchy].CurrentMember
},
[Measures].[Revenue]
)
Date hierarhy is following:
Year > Quarter > Month > Date
the following query can help, it uses cousin function to return last years date.
with member [Measures].[TestValue] as
(cousin([Date].[Calendar].currentmember,[Date].[Calendar].currentmember.parent.parent.lag(1)),[Measures].[Internet Sales Amount])
member [Measures].[TestDate] as
cousin([Date].[Calendar].currentmember,[Date].[Calendar].currentmember.parent.parent.lag(1)).item(0).name
select
{[Measures].[Internet Sales Amount],[Measures].[TestValue],[Measures].[TestDate]}
on columns,
{
[Date].[Calendar].[Date].&[20130922]
}
on rows from
[adventure works]

How to Get Current Year with MDX Query?

I have little thing about MDX.
Is there any way to get current year from the system/server with MDX query?
I didn't have any dimension related to date or something like that.
Regards.
Create a member and define it as 'YEAR(NOW())'
Member [Measures].[Current Year] as 'YEAR(NOW())'
Here is a more complete sample
-- The First Calculated member is the value of NOW()
WITH MEMBER [Measures].[Full Date] as 'NOW()'
-- The Second Calculated Member is the Day part of the first calculated member.
MEMBER [Measures].[What Day] as 'DAY([Full Date])'
-- The Third Calculated Member is the Month part of the first calculated member.
MEMBER [Measures].[What Month] as 'MONTH([Full Date])'
-- The Fourth Calculated Member is the Year part of the first calculated member.
Member [Measures].[What Year] as 'YEAR([Full Date])'
SELECT
{[Full Date],[What Day],[What Month],[What Year]} ON COLUMNS
FROM [Your Cube]

How to get the measure at specific day in that week using MDX

I am new to MDX,
I have a requirement, which is using the measure on that Saturday as the default of that week, I have a time dimension [CALENDAR],
but there are multiple hierachies, different hierachies have different week start, that means in [CALENDAR].[h1].[DATE], the week start may be Thursday(weekday in nature calendar), in the other may be Sunday(in nature calendar),
so I have to using [CALENDAR].[DATE], which is nature calendar, I can get the corresponding Saturday,
with member measures.[Weekday]
as datepart('w',[CALENDAR].[Fiscal].currentmember)
member measures.[SatDay]
as dateadd('d'
,7-datepart('w',[CALENDAR].[Fiscal].currentmember.MemberValue)
,[CALENDAR].[Fiscal].currentmember.MemberValue)
select
{
[Measures].[Plan Count]
,measures.[Weekday]
,measures.[SatDay]
} on 0,
[CALENDAR].[Fiscal].[Date] on 1
from [MyCube]
but how can I the measure on that day?
Try a sub-select using your date hierarchy containing week (Year-Week-Date).
with member [Measures].[WeekDate] as
dateadd('d' ,7 - datepart('w',[Dim Date].[Year - Week - Date].currentmember.MemberValue)
,[Dim Date].[Year - Week - Date].currentmember.MemberValue)
select {[Measures].[WeekDate], [Measures].[Plan Count]} on 0,
[Dim Date].[Year - Week - Date].Children on 1
from (
select ([Dim Date].[Year - Week - Date].[Week]) on 0
from [cube]
where (
//filters if necessary
)
)