I am very new to this. I built a pivot report (excel 2007) on ssas. It has data, rows, columns. And columns has hierarchy likes day-month. Now I want to send this report to a customer, so he can view it by himself and expand the hierarchy as he likes. But he can only see the contents as I saved the report. E.g. I saved it as month hierarchy and he can only see the monthly figures and can not expand the hierarchy to day. What should I do? The customer has no access to the ssas data source.
Thanks
N. Z
The pivot report needs some kind of a datasource.
Whether it is the cell values of an excel sheet or the connection to the SSAS Cube, it's fine but in order to do drillthrough actions a datasource is obligatory.
There are various workarounds for this:
Export all the aggregated data that you want your user to view to a new spreadsheet and make a simple pivot table based on that sheet.
Setup a role in SSAS and give your user the specific permissions you want him to have on the data. This requires the knowledge of some MDX but simple stuff is autoconfigured. You can then give your user access to the datasource inside of the excel.
Set up a sharepoint installation which is part of the BI (this is a bit of an overkill) and provide your users with dashboards of reports using PerformancePoint Services.
I really don't think that you can browse the data without data(datasource)!!! I would be glad to be proven wrong.
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I am now adding to something I am writing and need to offer the user the ability to place dimensions and measures on either the rows or columns.
I am about to test an idea to make the MDX for the example in the picture but realised I should also ask any MDX experts too!
So how would one go about pulling off this sort of layout? I cannot view the MDX generated by this Excel (data redacted due to being on site somewhere, also why I cannot download addins for MDX generator etc)
I actually did manage to get the OLAP extension addin installed.
https://github.com/OlapPivotTableExtensions/OlapPivotTableExtensions/releases/tag/v0.8.4
This will help me add some stuff to my MDX generator and prove invaluable as you can see the MDX Excel generates.
SELECT NON EMPTY Hierarchize(AddCalculatedMembers({DrilldownLevel({[Ccy].[Ccy].[ALL].[AllMember]})})) DIMENSION PROPERTIES PARENT_UNIQUE_NAME,HIERARCHY_UNIQUE_NAME ON COLUMNS , NON EMPTY Hierarchize(AddCalculatedMembers({DrilldownLevel({[Book].[Book].[ALL].[AllMember]})})) DIMENSION PROPERTIES PARENT_UNIQUE_NAME,HIERARCHY_UNIQUE_NAME ON ROWS FROM [TraderCube] WHERE ([Date].[Date].[ALL].[AllMember].[2019-12-12],[Measures].[JTD.SUM]) CELL PROPERTIES VALUE
Good day community, the question I have is about how I can share values between subreportes, I am currently designing a report using the Pentaho Report Designer tool, which has different subreportes, and in each subreport I need to use some of the data that contains another ( s) subreporte (s) through the use of formulas (As in Excel you can use the data from one sheet in another), but trying to make the formulas only allows me to access the data belonging to the subreporte that I am editing .
Example:
Subreport 1 contains: id, name, age, weight, height.
Subreport 2 contains: count(subreport1!id), average (subreport1!age), average (subreporte1!weight), average (subreporte1!height).
This is required because each subreport should appear on a different sheet once the report has been generated in excel format.
I have been looking for information about how to do this, but I can not find something that is useful or that can give me an idea of how to make that implementation. For what I would appreciate if you can guide me.
We work with a lot of data at my job, and I want to try and find a way to limit the amount of copying from SSMS to an Excel sheet that goes to the client.
What I want to be able to do, using SSIS if possible or any other possible way (Maybe power query?), is to copy the data pulled via a SQL query to an Excel workbook sheet.
For example, I want to do a count on the amount of members by state, I'd have the query run and the results copied to the sheet called "State" in the Excel work book.
Example code:
SELECT C.State, COUNT(*) as Count
FROM [dbo].Input I
Join Cassresults C on C.ID = I.ID
group by C.State
order by Count desc
The Excel workbook will never change for the client. The only thing that may change are the queries, but those are easily updated.
Is there a way to actually do this or am I nuts for thinking so? I hope I explained it well enough.
SSAS, SSIS, PowerQuery, PowerBI, Excel PowerPivot, SSRS, and Excel Data Querys all are geared for this type of use. I would definitely NOT recommend VBA as your users will constantly get a security warning and it is more complex than needed.
For Excel probably a good starting location go to the data tab and click "From Other Sources" and check out the different source types. From Micrsoft Query gives you the ability to write a query or copy from SSMS.
The only thing is will Data Sources Change? If so every workbook you create and distribute will the become obsolete and need to be changed. SSRS is a good choice to allow users to grab the report (and export to Excel) that they need.
When doing SSAS it is great as well but start with PowerPivot in Excel, again data connections move Sharepoint data connection library is a way to combat that.
This is like a BI and reporting design question and you will get a plethora of answers.
I have used 2 sub reports in my crystal report. Both these reports are from separate tables having no connection between them...I have inserted these reports in the details section....I have used dataset to pass source data to these reports...But when i view the report, the sub reports' data isn't filtered according to the dataset rather all the rows are shown in the reports.. How can i get rid of this problem....i just want to view the data like if user wants to view a report for 2011 then it should only show information from the database records having 2011 as the Year part...Can anyone help me on this
The solution to your problem is dependent on how your user specifies the criteria for the report and where in your application they enter that criteria.
For example, if you provide a prompt for the user within your application to get the year for the report, then retrieve the datasource and pass it to crystal, then you should filter the data in the datasource before passing the datasource to crystal. You could also set parameters in crystal to filter the data, but my rule of thumb is to retrieve as little data as necessary to provide the required information.
However, if the user is prompted from within crystal reports for the criteria, then you need to use standard crystal functionality to filter the data. This involves adding record selection formulas using the user entered parameters.
Pretty much what the title says. Is it possible to show the MDX that is sent to OLAP source when using a pivot table in Excel 2007?
You can download the OLAP Pivot Table Extensions from the codeplex site( http://olappivottableextend.codeplex.com/)
Install it.
You can then right click and see the OLAP query.
Regards,
Ambarish
I was curious to see the MDX generated by a pivot table in Excel also. Apart from imputing MDX manually I couldn't see a way to see the MDX after a user has selected and filtered etc.. on the pivot table itself.
But I found a quick vba snippet here
PivotTable.MDX
All I did was ALT + F11 to bring up the VBA window
Insert a userform like so
Click inside the textbox inside the userform and change these two settings in the properties window
Multiline - True
Wordwrap - True
Paste in the code below
Sub CheckMDX()
Dim pvtTable As PivotTable
Set pvtTable = ActiveSheet.PivotTables(1)
UserForm.TextBox.Value = pvtTable.MDX
UserForm.Show
End Sub
Make sure your Pivot Table is the active sheet (i.e have the worksheet open on the pivot table clicked in a cell).
Press the run button and a userform should pop up like so where you can copy out the MDX text.
This was on Excel 365. Hope this helps.
If you have profiler you could set up an Analysis Services trace and catch it on the way, or do you need to see it without executing it?
While the OLAP Pivot Table Extensions are still available for Excel 2013, you can no longer right-click on the table and view the MDX. This is yet another example of MIcrosoft going out of their way to make life more difficult for end-users and developers. The ability to view MDX for the current PivotTable selections should be built into Excel. It's not because Microsoft's developers either were too careless to give such a critical thing priority or because the powers that be saw a potential for an add-on product. Regardless, it's an example of why they are often hated. Over the years I can't even count all the hours of life I've lost outside the normal workday because the incompetent or malevolent behavior of Microsoft's manager, developers... But what other toolset can do what Excel and SSAS do? It's not an easy thing to replace so we have to deal with their crippled tools.
There is a free web based pivot table tool called WebPivotTable which can connect to SSAS cube directly and display each MDX statement for teh current PivotTable selections. It has all functions as Excel but with more intuitive user interface. In MDX windows, you can even test your own MDX statement and get results displayed in table and charts.
Here is Demo and Documents.