Adding 'Other' segment/slice in a pie chart

Hi guys,

I am creating a pie chart report from a cube. This report may contain unknown number of segments. Here is the thing; if more than 1 data slice is generated with a value less than 5% of the total, then a segment labelled 'other' will be generated, and data from all slices with value < 5% will be added to this 'Other' segment.

Is it possible to implement this functionality in the report layout level with out writing a complex MDX query? If this is not possible, can anybody give me a sample MDX query which implements similar issue(i.e. 'Other-ing' rule.)

For your information, this feature can be easily implemented using a third pary software such as 'Dundas chart for Reporting Service'. However, my client don't want to buy this third party software.

Please let me know if anybody has came accross with similar scenario?

Sincerely,

--Amde

Please help!!!!!!!!!!

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Do you have to use MDX or can you use T-SQL? I once used a derived table to get this type of data. Not pretty and not the quickest thing if you have huge datasets, but it works.

SELECT grouper, sum(total_charge), sum(pct)
FROM (

select
dx1_num "Diag", -- Item to list in pie slice
sum(charge_amount) "total_charge", --
(sum(charge_amount)/(SELECT SUM(charge_amount) FROM ar_billtrans_charge)) "pct", -- Percent of Everything
case
when (sum(charge_amount)/(SELECT SUM(charge_amount) FROM ar_billtrans_charge)) < .05 then 'Misc' -- Interim Group
else CAST(dx1_num AS VARCHAR(15))
end "grouper" -- what kind of name do you want for free?
from ar_billtrans_charge
group by dx1_num

) Y GROUP BY grouper;

I am sure some T-SQL gods out there can do much better.

R

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Hi,

Appreciate your response. Basically, I am using MDX query. Do you have any idea how to do the same thing using MDX?

Thank you for your cooperation.

--Amde

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Please read my response with a sample report in this thread: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=638700&SiteID=1&mode=1

-- Robert