Filtering a Measure (or Removing Outliers) - mdx

Question

Say I have a measure, foo, in a cube, and I have a reporting requirement that users want to see the following measures in a report:
total foo
total foo excluding instances where foo > 10
total foo excluding instances where foo > 30
What is the best way to handle this?
In the past, I have added Named Calculations which return NULL if foo > 10 or just foo otherwise.
I feel like there has to be a way to accomplish this in MDX (something like Filter([Measures].[foo], [Measures].[foo] > 10)), but I can't for the life of me figure anything out.
Any ideas?

Answer 1

The trick is that you need to apply the filter on your set, not on your measure.
For example, using the usual Microsoft 'warehouse and sales' demo cube, the following MDX will display the sales for all the stores where sales were greater than $2000.
SELECT Filter([Store].[Stores].[Store].members, [Unit Sales] > 2000) ON COLUMNS,
[Unit Sales] ON ROWS
FROM [Warehouse and Sales]

Answer 2

I met similar problem when use saiku (backend with Mondrain), as I haven't found any clear solution of "add filter on measure", I added it here, and that may be useful for other guy.
In Saiku3.8, you could add filter on UI: "column"->"filter"->"custom", then you may see a Filter MDX Expression.
Let's suppose we want clicks in Ad greater than 1000, then add the following line there:
[Measures].[clicks] > 1000
Save and close, then that filter will be valid for find elem with clicks greater than 1000.
The MDX likes below (suppose dt as dimension and clicks as measure, we want to find dt with clicks more than 1000)
WITH
SET [~ROWS] AS
Filter({[Dt].[dt].[dt].Members}, ([Measures].[clicks] > 1000))
SELECT
NON EMPTY {[Measures].[clicks]} ON COLUMNS,
NON EMPTY [~ROWS] ON ROWS
FROM [OfflineData]

Answer 3

i think you have two choices:
1- Add column to your fact(or view on data source view that is based on fact table)like:
case when unit_Price>2000 then 1
else 0
end as Unit_Price_Uper_Or_Under_10
and add a fictitious Dimension based on this columns value.
and add named query for New Dimension(say Range_Dimension in datasourceview :
select 1 as range
union all
select 0 as range
and after taht you cant used this filter like other dimension and attribute.
SELECT [Store].[Stores].[Store].members ON COLUMNS,
[Unit Sales] ON ROWS
FROM [Warehouse and Sales]
WHERE [Test_Dimension].[Range].&[1]
the problem is for every range you must add When condition and only if the range is static this solution is a good solution.
and for dynamic range it's better to formulate the range (based on disceretizing method )
2- add dimension with granularity near fact table based on fact table
for example if we have fact table with primary key Sale_id.we can add
dimension based on fact table with only one column sale_Id and in dimension Usage tab
we can relate this new dimension and measure group with relation type Fact and
after that in mdx we can use something like :
filter([dim Sale].[Sale Id].[Sale Id].members,[Measures].[Unit Price]>2000)