Additive or non-additive dimension depending on the measure group

Hi,

I have a dimension called [Year of Account]. For most of my measure groups all values are additive over this dimension - no problem there.

Unfortunately I have one measure group that is NOT additive over this dimension.

I wanted to deal with this by removing the [Year of Account].[All] member from the dimension but I only want to remove it for this one measure group. As far as I know that's not possible. (Or am I wrong?)

Any other ideas about how I should deal with this? Any suggestions welcome.

Thanks

Jamie

I think you are probably right, one possible work around would be to use an MDX script assignment to override the value in the relevant subcube so that the users did not see misleading information.

eg.

([Year of Account].[All] ,MEASUREGROUPMEASURES(MeasureGroupName)) = "NA";

OR

([Year of Account].[All] ,MEASUREGROUPMEASURES(MeasureGroupName)) = null;

adding up fields

My problem right now is I have three layers in my sheet.
Objective level
measure level
region level
facility level
The facility level is not a problem, just a Field!Facility.Value, it's a
straight pull from the db.
Region is fine, it's a sum(Field!Facility.Value)
Measure is a bit tricky, but it's fine - (Sum(Field!PassFail.Value)/Sum(Field!
TotalFacility))*Field!MeasureScore.Value
My problem now is that when you add all the measures, they should equal the
Objective score. So say I have 2 measures that work out to
.61
.24
my objective score should be .85
The problem is, I can't sum the measure scores because I can't Sum an
aggregate function.
So, I changed one of my views so that I could calculate a measure score in
the datafield and just pull it to the spreadsheet. The problem is, when I
Sum these fields, it works for adding up ALL of the objectives, not for each
objective. And when I put in more than once facility, it adds up the scores
for all of the objectives for all of the facilities.
My guess is that I am grouping incorrectly in the view. I'm pulling a bunch
of columns into my view and grouping on them. Is it possible to pull a
column into a select statement without grouping by it? I am grouping by
region, facility, objective and measure where I think I should just be
grouping by objective. When I try to just group by one column, I get errors
all over the place.
thanks for any help you can give.Okay, so I have four levels and not three:) Shows just how confused and
frustrated I am :)
ravensensei wrote:
>My problem right now is I have three layers in my sheet.
>Objective level
>measure level
>region level
>facility level
>The facility level is not a problem, just a Field!Facility.Value, it's a
>straight pull from the db.
>Region is fine, it's a sum(Field!Facility.Value)
>Measure is a bit tricky, but it's fine - (Sum(Field!PassFail.Value)/Sum(Field!
>TotalFacility))*Field!MeasureScore.Value
>My problem now is that when you add all the measures, they should equal the
>Objective score. So say I have 2 measures that work out to
>.61
>.24
>my objective score should be .85
>The problem is, I can't sum the measure scores because I can't Sum an
>aggregate function.
>So, I changed one of my views so that I could calculate a measure score in
>the datafield and just pull it to the spreadsheet. The problem is, when I
>Sum these fields, it works for adding up ALL of the objectives, not for each
>objective. And when I put in more than once facility, it adds up the scores
>for all of the objectives for all of the facilities.
>My guess is that I am grouping incorrectly in the view. I'm pulling a bunch
>of columns into my view and grouping on them. Is it possible to pull a
>column into a select statement without grouping by it? I am grouping by
>region, facility, objective and measure where I think I should just be
>grouping by objective. When I try to just group by one column, I get errors
>all over the place.
>thanks for any help you can give.

Adding New Measure to OLAP Cube

To add a record count measure to the olap cube. Create the cube as
usual then run the following VB code with command line parameters
Step1: Build your cube as usual
Step2: Convert the blow vb code to exe prog
Step3: Run the exe with the <Ananlysis server name> <cube name>
parameters (e.g) OLAPcount.exe <Analysis Server> <Cube Name>
Public Sub main()
Dim dsoServer As New DSO.Server
Dim dsoDB As DSO.MDStore
Dim dsoCube As DSO.MDStore
Dim dsoMea As DSO.Measure
Dim dsoAssFactCube As DSO.Cube
Dim dsoPortAnalyzerCube As DSO.Cube
'for storing initial command line arguments as entered by user
Dim strArgs() As String
'for storing the parsed command line arguments
Dim ParsedArgs As String
'for storing the final array of command line arguments
Dim finalArgs() As String
'Splitting the command line arguments based on a space
strArgs = Split(Command$, " ")
'Parsing the command line arguments to generate the parsed string
For i = 0 To UBound(strArgs)
If Len(Trim(strArgs(i))) > 0 Then
ParsedArgs = ParsedArgs & Trim(strArgs(i)) & " "
End If
Next
'Splitting the parsed string into final array of arguments
finalArgs = Split(ParsedArgs, " ")
'Check for correct number of arguments
If UBound(finalArgs) < 2 Then
MsgBox ("Wrong Syntax..." & "or wrong number of
arguments....Correcet Syntax : OLAPcount.exe <Analysis Server> <Cube
Name> (e.g)OLAPcount.exe livdwqprj03 AIGTMSReport1")
Else
'connect to the server (Analysis Server name)
dsoServer.Connect (finalArgs(0))
'Examine whether all necessary components are present (Cube
name)
If dsoServer.MDStores.Find(finalArgs(1)) = False Then
GoTo err_no_database
End If
'Connect with the data base (CUBE) (Cube name)
Set dsoDB = dsoServer.MDStores(finalArgs(1))
If dsoDB.DataSources.Count = 0 Then
GoTo err_no_datasource
ElseIf dsoDB.Dimensions.Count = 0 Then
GoTo err_no_dimensions
ElseIf dsoDB.MDStores.Find("MSP_ASSN_FACT") = False Then
GoTo err_no_fact_cube
ElseIf dsoDB.MDStores.Find("MSP_PORTFOLIO_ANALYZER") = False
Then
GoTo err_no_analyzer
End If
'Set the cube table to use
Set dsoAssFactCube = dsoDB.MDStores("MSP_ASSN_FACT")
Set dsoPortAnalyzerCube =
dsoDB.MDStores("MSP_PORTFOLIO_ANALYZER")
'Specify the name of the new measure
Set dsoMea = dsoAssFactCube.Measures.AddNew("Total
Assignments")
'Specify the source column based on which the operation need to
be performed
'dsoMea.SourceColumn =
"""MSP_CUBE_ASSN_FACT"".""ENT_ASSIGNMENT_CODE6"""
dsoMea.SourceColumn = """MSP_CUBE_ASSN_FACT"".""PROJ_UID"""
'The datatype for the column
dsoMea.SourceColumnType = ADODB.DataTypeEnum.adDecimal
'The method for the column aggSum or aggCount aggregates the
column by summation or counts.
dsoMea.AggregateFunction = aggCount
'update the cube
dsoAssFactCube.Update
dsoAssFactCube.Process
'dsoAnalyzerCube represents a virtual Cube. the measure of a
virtual Cubes has
'the characteristics of the measure of the material cubes
Set dsoMea = dsoPortAnalyzerCube.Measures.AddNew("Total
Assignments")
'The column is indicated in "more normal" form, since the
measure belongs to the virtual Cube!
'dsoMea.SourceColumn = "MSP_ASSN_FACT.FIXED COST"
dsoMea.SourceColumn = "MSP_ASSN_FACT.Total Assignments"
dsoPortAnalyzerCube.Update
dsoPortAnalyzerCube.Process
dsoDB.Process
leave_now:
UserOLAPUpdate = 0
' Exit Function
err_no_database:
l_errnum = 1
s_errdesc = "Datenbank konnte nicht gefunden werden!"
UserOLAPUpdate = vbObjectError + 1
' Exit Function
err_no_datasource:
l_errnum = 1
s_errdesc = "Datenquelle konnte nicht gefunden werden!"
UserOLAPUpdate = vbObjectError + 2
' Exit Function
err_no_dimensions:
l_errnum = 1
s_errdesc = "Dimensionen konnten nicht gefunden werden!"
UserOLAPUpdate = vbObjectError + 3
' Exit Function
err_no_fact_cube:
l_errnum = 1
s_errdesc = "Cube MSP_ASSN_FACT konnte nicht gefunden werden!"
UserOLAPUpdate = vbObjectError + 4
' Exit Function
err_no_analyzer:
l_errnum = 1
s_errdesc = "Cube MSP_PORTFOLIO_ANALYZER konnte nicht gefunden
werden! "
UserOLAPUpdate = vbObjectError + 5
' Exit Function
error_handler:
l_errnum = Err.Number
s_errdesc = Err.Description
UserOLAPUpdate = 1 ' although it could be any non-zero value
' to indicate an error
End If
End SubPerhaps you should head for the ng
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...sqlserver.olap
HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
http://www.sqlserver2005.de
--
"wilsonjust@.gmail.com" wrote:

> To add a record count measure to the olap cube. Create the cube as
> usual then run the following VB code with command line parameters
> Step1: Build your cube as usual
> Step2: Convert the blow vb code to exe prog
> Step3: Run the exe with the <Ananlysis server name> <cube name>
> parameters (e.g) OLAPcount.exe <Analysis Server> <Cube Name>
> Public Sub main()
> Dim dsoServer As New DSO.Server
> Dim dsoDB As DSO.MDStore
> Dim dsoCube As DSO.MDStore
> Dim dsoMea As DSO.Measure
> Dim dsoAssFactCube As DSO.Cube
> Dim dsoPortAnalyzerCube As DSO.Cube
> 'for storing initial command line arguments as entered by user
> Dim strArgs() As String
> 'for storing the parsed command line arguments
> Dim ParsedArgs As String
> 'for storing the final array of command line arguments
> Dim finalArgs() As String
> 'Splitting the command line arguments based on a space
> strArgs = Split(Command$, " ")
> 'Parsing the command line arguments to generate the parsed string
> For i = 0 To UBound(strArgs)
> If Len(Trim(strArgs(i))) > 0 Then
> ParsedArgs = ParsedArgs & Trim(strArgs(i)) & " "
> End If
> Next
> 'Splitting the parsed string into final array of arguments
> finalArgs = Split(ParsedArgs, " ")
> 'Check for correct number of arguments
> If UBound(finalArgs) < 2 Then
> MsgBox ("Wrong Syntax..." & "or wrong number of
> arguments....Correcet Syntax : OLAPcount.exe <Analysis Server> <Cube
> Name> (e.g)OLAPcount.exe livdwqprj03 AIGTMSReport1")
> Else
> 'connect to the server (Analysis Server name)
> dsoServer.Connect (finalArgs(0))
> 'Examine whether all necessary components are present (Cube
> name)
> If dsoServer.MDStores.Find(finalArgs(1)) = False Then
> GoTo err_no_database
> End If
> 'Connect with the data base (CUBE) (Cube name)
> Set dsoDB = dsoServer.MDStores(finalArgs(1))
> If dsoDB.DataSources.Count = 0 Then
> GoTo err_no_datasource
> ElseIf dsoDB.Dimensions.Count = 0 Then
> GoTo err_no_dimensions
> ElseIf dsoDB.MDStores.Find("MSP_ASSN_FACT") = False Then
> GoTo err_no_fact_cube
> ElseIf dsoDB.MDStores.Find("MSP_PORTFOLIO_ANALYZER") = False
> Then
> GoTo err_no_analyzer
> End If
> 'Set the cube table to use
> Set dsoAssFactCube = dsoDB.MDStores("MSP_ASSN_FACT")
> Set dsoPortAnalyzerCube =
> dsoDB.MDStores("MSP_PORTFOLIO_ANALYZER")
> 'Specify the name of the new measure
> Set dsoMea = dsoAssFactCube.Measures.AddNew("Total
> Assignments")
> 'Specify the source column based on which the operation need to
> be performed
> 'dsoMea.SourceColumn =
> """MSP_CUBE_ASSN_FACT"".""ENT_ASSIGNMENT_CODE6"""
> dsoMea.SourceColumn = """MSP_CUBE_ASSN_FACT"".""PROJ_UID"""
> 'The datatype for the column
> dsoMea.SourceColumnType = ADODB.DataTypeEnum.adDecimal
> 'The method for the column aggSum or aggCount aggregates the
> column by summation or counts.
> dsoMea.AggregateFunction = aggCount
> 'update the cube
> dsoAssFactCube.Update
> dsoAssFactCube.Process
> 'dsoAnalyzerCube represents a virtual Cube. the measure of a
> virtual Cubes has
> 'the characteristics of the measure of the material cubes
> Set dsoMea = dsoPortAnalyzerCube.Measures.AddNew("Total
> Assignments")
> 'The column is indicated in "more normal" form, since the
> measure belongs to the virtual Cube!
> 'dsoMea.SourceColumn = "MSP_ASSN_FACT.FIXED COST"
> dsoMea.SourceColumn = "MSP_ASSN_FACT.Total Assignments"
> dsoPortAnalyzerCube.Update
> dsoPortAnalyzerCube.Process
> dsoDB.Process
> leave_now:
> UserOLAPUpdate = 0
> ' Exit Function
> err_no_database:
> l_errnum = 1
> s_errdesc = "Datenbank konnte nicht gefunden werden!"
> UserOLAPUpdate = vbObjectError + 1
> ' Exit Function
> err_no_datasource:
> l_errnum = 1
> s_errdesc = "Datenquelle konnte nicht gefunden werden!"
> UserOLAPUpdate = vbObjectError + 2
> ' Exit Function
> err_no_dimensions:
> l_errnum = 1
> s_errdesc = "Dimensionen konnten nicht gefunden werden!"
> UserOLAPUpdate = vbObjectError + 3
> ' Exit Function
> err_no_fact_cube:
> l_errnum = 1
> s_errdesc = "Cube MSP_ASSN_FACT konnte nicht gefunden werden!"
> UserOLAPUpdate = vbObjectError + 4
> ' Exit Function
> err_no_analyzer:
> l_errnum = 1
> s_errdesc = "Cube MSP_PORTFOLIO_ANALYZER konnte nicht gefunden
> werden! "
> UserOLAPUpdate = vbObjectError + 5
> ' Exit Function
> error_handler:
> l_errnum = Err.Number
> s_errdesc = Err.Description
> UserOLAPUpdate = 1 ' although it could be any non-zero value
> ' to indicate an error
> End If
> End Sub
>

Adding Measures to Report - receive error

Hello,

My report, which has a matrix and a chart work fine. Then...

I click on the Data tab, drag a measure into the results grid. At this point I haven't added the new measure to the matrix or anything in Layout.

I click the Preview tab and get the following message: "The definition of the report XXX is invalid. More than one data set, data region, or grouing in the report has the name 'YYY'. Data set, data region and grouping names must be unique within a report.

Ok, I get the point. But why and how would adding a measure give me this issue? Where can I even find where this is being duplicated?

The message refers to a name that is a parameter, and I don't see anything in there that might cause this.

Thank you for the help.

-Gumbatman

I've just got this same message myself - and am trying to figure it out. I had a report that was working fine in Preview...then I went to try to add a parameter, couldn't get it to work so deleted it. Now the report won't preview at all...keep getting this message.

I've even deleted ALL of the layout fields - but still get the error.

The DATA tab retrieves my data fine without a problem.

Help please ?

Phil