MDX - do no show contacts if the linked action is selected - ssas

I have a model which contains a measuregroup with one row for every contacted "Person" for a specific "Action".
Now I want to have my dimension "Action" behave as follows:
I I select an "Action" only all "Persons" contacted may be shown that do NOT exist in that specific action.
Even if a "Person" exists in the selected "action" and in another "action" the "Person" may not be shown.

This is a potential pattern you could use. The 3rd set excludes all customers who bought [Bottles and Cages] and it is then used in the subsequent query.
WITH
SET [customers] AS
{
[Customer].[Customer].&[15568]
,[Customer].[Customer].&[12067]
,[Customer].[Customer].&[21414]
,[Customer].[Customer].&[18695]
}
SET [custWhoBoughtBottlesAndCages] AS
NonEmpty
(
[customers]
,[Product].[Product Categories].[Subcategory].[Bottles and Cages]
)
SET [custExcludeThoseWhoBoughtBottlesAndCages] AS
Except
(
[customers]
,[custWhoBoughtBottlesAndCages]
)
SELECT
NON EMPTY
[Product].[Subcategory].[Subcategory] ON 0
,[custExcludeThoseWhoBoughtBottlesAndCages] ON 1
FROM [Adventure Works]
WHERE
[Measures].[Internet Sales Amount];

Related

how to avoid the error "Category member XXX defined as an empty set" in icCube?

I've got the following MDX code to create a category dimension with 4 members:
all members that make up of 0-50% of the measure (TopPercent)
members 50-80%
members 80-95%
members 95-100%
The code works perfectly on levels with a lot of members:
WITH
MEMBER [measures].[v] as eval([Tijd].[Tijd].[jaar].[2018],[Measures].[Bedrag])
set [selection] as Order( nonempty([Categorie].[Categorie].[categorie].members,[measures].[v]), [measures].[v], BDESC)
CATEGORY HIERARCHY [Stats].[ABCD], DEFAULT_MEMBER_NAME = "Totaal", LEVEL_NAME_PATTERN="L - ABCD - ${levelDepth}"
CATEGORY MEMBER [Stats].[ABCD].[Totaal].[A (0-50%)] as
TopPercent([selection],50, [measures].[v] ), ADD_CHILDREN=true
CATEGORY MEMBER [Stats].[ABCD].[Totaal].[B (50-80%)] as
TopPercent([selection],80, [measures].[v] )
- TopPercent([selection],50, [measures].[v]), ADD_CHILDREN=true
CATEGORY MEMBER [Stats].[ABCD].[Totaal].[C (80-95%)] as
TopPercent([selection],95, [measures].[v])
- TopPercent([selection],80, [measures].[v] ), ADD_CHILDREN=true
CATEGORY MEMBER [Stats].[ABCD].[Totaal].[D (95-100%)] as
Order([selection], [measures].[v], BDESC)
- TopPercent([selection],95, [measures].[v]), ADD_CHILDREN=true
SELECT
// Measures
{[measures].[v]} On 0,
// Columns
[Stats].[ABCD].[L - ABCD - 1].members on 1,
// Rows
[Stats].[ABCD].[L - ABCD - 2].members on 2
FROM (select [Tijd].[jaar].[2018] on 0 from [Spendzoom])
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But when I run the MDX code with:
set [selection] as Order( nonempty([Categorie].[Categorie].[type].members,[measures].[v]), [measures].[v], BDESC)
I get the error: Category member "[Stats].[ABCD].[Totaal].[C (80-95%)]'defined as an empty set.
I have tried to rewrite the definitions, as:
subcubeminus(TopPercent .... , TopPercent)
But that gave completely strange results.
How can I overcome this error and have a generic approach that allways works regardless of the contents of the hierarchy & level in the [selection] definition?
To understand what happening you should check how TopPercent works (it's not really whay you expected).
Try this MDX :
WITH
MEMBER [measures].[v] as eval([Tijd].[Tijd].[jaar].[2018],[Measures].[Bedrag])
STATIC SET [selection] as [Categorie].[Categorie].[categorie].members
SELECT
[measures].[v] On 0,
TopPercent([selection],95, [measures].[v]) on 1,
TopPercent([selection],80, [measures].[v] ) on 2
FROM
(select [Tijd].[jaar].[2018] on 0 from [Spendzoom])
As you see both return the same set, and that is not what you are looking I guess.
As ic3 mentioned in the comments, as of icCube 6.8.10, icCube allows now to have empty categories. Y
For me this means, business wise, that regardless of the global filter settings the categories ALWAYS work. In case it is an empty set, it results a blank value in the dashboards.
example of a Parato analysis for just 1 vendor (bedrag = amount, #Fact = nr of invoices, #Lev = nr of suppliers)
Exactly as desired.

MDX sum over various sets

I have a datacube with a dimension of a large number of academic courses. I would like to group the courses (create a set) by the name of the course (using filter and Inst), so that I can calculate some aggregate statistics. i.e. I would ultimately like a list of the number of people doing courses with those groupings (split later by their home geography).
I have four measures, which include
[Measures].[Achievements]
[Measures].[Starts]
[Measures].[Enrolments]
[Measures].[Leavers]
I have managed to make two sets:
CREATE SET [MyDataCube].[BA] AS
{FILTER(
[Aim].[Aim Title].[Aim Title].Members,
(InStr(1, [Aim].[Aim Title].CurrentMember.NAME, "BA ") <> 0)
)
}
GO
CREATE SET [MyDataCube].[BSc] AS
{FILTER(
[Aim].[Aim Title].[Aim Title].Members,
(InStr(1, [Aim].[Aim Title].CurrentMember.NAME, "BSc") <> 0)
)
}
And then I can query a single set:
SELECT
NON EMPTY [AccessCourses] DIMENSION PROPERTIES MEMBER_NAME ON ROWS,
NON EMPTY Hierarchize({DrilldownLevel({[Geography - Learner Home].[Learner Home].[All]})}) DIMENSION PROPERTIES MEMBER_NAME ON COLUMNS
FROM [MyDataCube]
But how can I get a table with [Geography - Learner Home].[Learner Home].[All] on the rows, with a sum of all [Bsc] and [BA] courses on the columns, like:
I would like to do this for [Measures].[Starts].
Something like the following maybe:
WITH
MEMBER [Aim].[Aim Title].[All].[BA] AS
AGGREGATE(
[BA]
)
MEMBER [Aim].[Aim Title].[All].[BSc] AS
AGGREGATE(
[BSc]
)
SELECT
NON EMPTY
[Geography - Learner Home].[Learner Home].MEMBERS ON ROWS,
NON EMPTY
{
[Aim].[Aim Title].[All].[BA]
,[Aim].[Aim Title].[All].[BSc]
} ON COLUMNS
FROM [MyDataCube]
WHERE [Measures].[Starts];

MDX query - best salesmen who sold all of given products

Let's say I have two simple dimensions:
Products - with id and name
Salesmen - with id and name
My fact table is named SALES and contains the ids of the abovementioned.
I need to produce a query that will show the names of salesmen who sold all of the given products.
This code solves the problem for two items X and Y:
SELECT
{} on 0,
EXISTS(
EXISTS(
{[Salesmen].[Name].MEMBERS},
{[Products].[Name].&[X]}
)
,{[Products].[Name].&[Y]}
)
ON 1
FROM [Test];
The other version is:
SELECT
{} on 0,
INTERSECT(
NONEMPTY(
{[Salesmen].[Name].MEMBERS}
,([Products].[Name].&[X])
)
,NONEMPTY(
{[Salesmen].[Name].MEMBERS}
,([Products].[Name].&[Y])
)
)
ON 1
FROM [Test];
However, this method becomes troublesome if the list of given products is large, for example - 100 random products..
Do you have a property member_key for the hierarchy [Products].[Name] ? We can test like this:
WITH
MEMBER [Measures].[Meas1] AS
[Products].[Name].CurrentMember.PROPERTIES("KEY ID")
MEMBER [Measures].[Meas2] AS
[Products].[Name].CurrentMember.MEMBER_Key
MEMBER [Measures].[Meas3] AS
[Products].[Name].CurrentMember.MEMBERvalue
select
{
[Measures].[Meas1]
,[Measures].[Meas2]
,[Measures].[Meas3]
} on COLUMNS,
[Products].[Name].MEMBERS on ROWS
FROM [Test];
Hopefully one of the custom measures gives you a value? I'll assume Meas2 is working (swap to a different one if Meas1 or Meas3 is returning numbers)
WITH
MEMBER [Measures].[Meas2] AS
[Products].[Name].CurrentMember.MEMBER_Key
SET [ProdsetA] AS
FILTER(
[Products].[Name].MEMBERS
,[Measures].[Meas2] <100
)
SET [ProdsetB] AS
FILTER(
[Products].[Name].MEMBERS
,[Measures].[Meas2] >500
)
SELECT
{} on 0,
INTERSECT(
NONEMPTY(
{[Salesmen].[Name].MEMBERS}
,[ProdsetA]
)
,NONEMPTY(
{[Salesmen].[Name].MEMBERS}
,[ProdsetB]
)
)
ON 1
FROM [Test];
... the >100 and <500 are important. These are the criteria for the filter function to use. The custom set [ProdsetA] will only contain Products that have MEMBER_Key that are <100 whereas the custom set [ProdsetB] will only contain Products that have MEMBER_Key that are >500. You need to use the member values presented to you by the first script to decide what values 100 and 500 should be in your cube context (...I don't know the key values in your cube so just used 100 and 500 as placeholders)

Adding further information in the context of the cell set

I'd like to be able to search the [Employee Department] hierarchy - within any of it's levels using a string: the following does this ok and finds all members related to the string "Control"
Now I have tried to add a cross join so that I can always see the department name for each of the rows and then ORDER by the department. If the commented section is uncommented I unfortunately get a full cartesian product - I only want the departments in the context of the members found by the filter - is this possible?
WITH
MEMBER [Measures].[LevelName] AS
[Employee].[Employee Department].Level.Name
MEMBER [Measures].[LevelNumber] AS
[Employee].[Employee Department].Level.Ordinal
SET [Set_TargetEmp] AS
{
FILTER(
[Employee Department].AllMembers,
(
InStr(
1,
[Employee].[Employee Department].currentmember.name,
"Control") <> 0
)
)
}
SELECT
// ORDER(
// [Department].members,
// [Department].[Department].MEMBERVALUE
// )
// *
ORDER(
DESCENDANTS(
[Set_TargetEmp],
[Employee].[Employee Department].[Department],
SELF_BEFORE_AFTER
),
[Measures].[LevelNumber],
BASC
) as X
ON 1,
{
[Measures].[LevelName],
[Measures].[LevelNumber]
} ON 0
FROM [Adventure Works]
Assuming you use Department the Department dimension, and the Employee Department is in a different dimension named Employee, you get a cross product. Analysis Services only applies "autoexists" within the same dimension. Across dimensions, you must apply this logic explicitly like this:
ORDER(
Exists([Employee].[Department Name].[Department Name].members,
[Set_TargetEmp]
),
[Department].[Department].MEMBERVALUE
)
for the commented block in your code should deliver what you want.
In case you have more than one measure group that relate to both the department and the employee dimensions, you should state the name of the measure group to use as the third argument of Exists. This is a string argument, hence this name should be included in quotes.

Excluding (All) from sets

I'm using the following but i think there's probably a much simpler method of excluding the All members from the results?
WITH
SET [Non_All_Distributors] AS
{FILTER(
[Distributor Name].members,
(InStr(1, [Distributor Name].CurrentMember.NAME, "All") = 0)
)}
SET [Non_All_Countries] AS
{FILTER(
[Geography Country].members,
(InStr(1, [Geography Country].CurrentMember.NAME, "All") = 0)
)}
SELECT
NON EMPTY
[Dimension].[Hierarchy].DEFAULTMEMBER
ON COLUMNS,
NON EMPTY
[Non_All_Distributors]
*
[Non_All_Countries]
*
Tail([Date].[Date - Calendar Month].[Calendar Day].Members,60)
*
{
[Measures].[Revenue],
[Measures].[NumClients]
}
ON ROWS
FROM [OURCUBE]
Just use
SELECT
NON EMPTY
[Dimension].[Hierarchy].DEFAULTMEMBER
ON COLUMNS,
NON EMPTY
[dimension of Distributor Name].[Distributor Name].[Distributor Name].Members
*
[dimension of Geography Country].[Geography Country].[Geography Country].Members
*
Tail([Date].[Date - Calendar Month].[Calendar Day].Members,60)
*
{
[Measures].[Revenue],
[Measures].[NumClients]
}
ON ROWS
FROM [OURCUBE]
There is no need to define sets here. you can directly state the distributor and country members in the rows clause.
By repeating the attribute name, you restrict the attribute hierarchy - which you refer to by [dim].[attrib name] to the level below the All member, which happens to have the same name as the attribute again. An attribute hierarchy has two levels: level 0 contains the 'All' member and level 1 all the members of the attribute. (This is true only if you did not do special configurations like setting the attribute as non aggregateabable, but I assume the standard case, as you have All members in your hierarchies.
Apart from being more simple, this statement will run much faster, as Filter is a real performance killer in many cases.
I would use the Descendants function and the AFTER option as following; this way you get all the members of the hierarchy below the all member:
select
[Measures].[Amount] on 0,
Descendants([Customers].[Geography].[All], 1, AFTER ) on 1
from [Sales]
(edited: with a request working with MSAS Adv. Works : removed the distance param)
select
Measures].[Order Count] on 0,
Descendants( [Geography].[Geography].[All], , AFTER ) on 1
from [Adventure Works]