BO XI 3.1 Sp2 OLAP Universe - MDX Function

Hi all,
How i tuse MDX Functions in OLAP Universe ?
Iam getting parse ok in Universe . getting error in while creating webi report

Hi... i´ve seen that this is a typical question but i think it´s still not solved... I need to use the sentence showed but despite using measures using another dimension. I mean i want to create a new dimension which tell me if it has values or not so i want to create another one and use the function IIF and the sentence more or less like that:
IIF(ISEMPTY(.[D7LE0EX5IUP5U83WHERK13M48]), 1, 0)</EXPRESSION> - it works
May i use this sentence with dimension/characteristic values or it only works for measures ? Some idea of how to achieve what i´m looking for ?
Thanks in advance.
SAP BW 7.02 SP06
BO XI 3.1 FP 3.5
J.Casas

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Regards,
Ravi Kumar Garre

Hi,
Here is a document whic lists lost of example.
OLAP universes best practices
[http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/boc/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/c0a45246-ce76-2b10-e688-f5c8206203eb?quicklink=index&overridelayout=true]
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i have a universe based on a BEX query
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defined as number
where
CurrencyTypeCode is a dimension (character format)
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Hi Didier,
Thanks a lot for your help.
Now it works : i do not understand why
i explain:
the correct syntaxe of my new measure is :
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it does not works with my "L01 currency type" BO dimension
([0CURTYPE].[LEVEL01])
when i had :
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[0CURTYPE].[LEVEL01]
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[0CURTYPE].[LEVEL01].[TECH_NAME]
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[0CURTYPE].[LEVEL01].[[40CURTYPE]].[Value]
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[0CURTYPE].[LEVEL01] (idem)
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[0CURTYPE].[LEVEL01].[NAME] (updated)
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ps: this is the same if a use webi under infoview (java) or webi rich client...
Edited by: Frederic Nez on Jan 19, 2010 6:35 PM
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Substring @ SAP BO XI3.1 Sp2 OLAP Universe

Hi any body address solution for below problem
[GCOSTCTR].[LEVEL01].[[4GCOSTCTR]].[Value] is the object select class and the out put is:0100/10101223 but I need 10101223 while selecting as a promt @ report level.
Provide me the Mxd statement for this using substr or is there any alternate solution.

Hi,
Unfortunately this is not possible with SAP.
You hit one of the major limitation: calculated expression MUST return NUMERIC values.
In your case although the result seems to be numeric, SAP interprets it as a string and returns an error.
According to my knowledge only SAP Exit are valid to achieve such requirements.
Regards
Didier

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I would like to understand what has changed in BOXI3.1 SP2 in comparison with BOXI3.1 base version for OLAP universes.
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Hi,
Here is the list of feature we have added in SP2 for OLAP universes:
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Try like this :
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Regards

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Anil Kumar.

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Hi Ingo!
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Hi Henry… thanks for your answer…
The reports we are creating of PCM are not from BW universes, but PCM OLAP Universes. PCM have its own cube OLAP files, and BO universes for those OLAP models use the Business Objects PCM MDX Driver.
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and ......
and (query filters)
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I looked in varies forums and found no similar issues posted by others. Has anyone had any performance problem with there OLAP universe? Is this a matter of configurations?
My envrionment:
SAP BW 3.5
BOXI 3.0
ORACLE DB (version ??)

Hi,
You cannot compare a BEx query and a universe query by just comparing the trace.
BEx query makes ABAP calls and universe query makes MDX calls;
Moreover there is only one MDX call sent to SAP, what you have noticed is that there is one MDX call to retrieve member for a given characteristic whereas a prompt has been set on.
Last, Web Intelligence consume only flattened data (row sets) wheras BEx consume data sets.
That means that there is a flattening operation between SAP OLAP engine and the data sent to the Web Intelligence document.
A fix have been developed for a customer to improve performance on Web Intelligence queries, this fix will be available for all customers in SP2 planned in June 09.
Here is a a brief summary of what the fix provide:
- Provide data directly from SAP server to Web Intelligence document. Avoid unnecessary conversion steps: row set --> data set --> row set
- Eliminate redundant sort operations
- Other optimization operations
Didier
Edited by: Didier Mazoue on Nov 20, 2008 8:38 AM

OLAP Universe Filter for Constant

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I am trying to create a universe filter. We have a BO OLAP Universe on top of MSAS 2008. We are at BOXI 3.1 SP2/FP2.2
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Edited by: ramaks on Oct 26, 2010 2:35 AM
Edited by: ramaks on Oct 26, 2010 2:36 AM
Edited by: ramaks on Oct 26, 2010 2:37 AM

Hi Didier,
Thank you for your response. That was exactly my original design - but it has performance implications for us. Please see an earlier thread of mine.
Query Performance in OLAP MSAS Universe using Filter
In this Case the MDX will become as below.
Which means every additional dimension i add creates multiple cross joins, and the filter will go through all possible cross-join combination to filter out that one record for that particular date. My original thread explains this more clearly.
Is there no other way to implement such a filter?
WITH
MEMBER [Measures].[2FF3DF31-5D02-4A9B-A8,BC,E7,25,C2,30,1B,61] AS
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        [Date].[Calendar Date].CurrentMember.Properties("CAPTION")
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        [Today].Item(0).Member_Caption
     ,1
     ,0
SELECT { [Measures].DefaultMember } ON COLUMNS ,
,NON EMPTY
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            AddCalculatedMembers
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      [Measures].[2FF3DF31-5D02-4A9B-A8,BC,E7,25,C2,30,1B,61] = 1
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Regards
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Hi,
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my BoBJ version 3.1 sp3
BW-OLAP universe.
I checked below Link for the solution, but couldn't
get answer, as these are based on relational universes.
/people/erika.atencio2/blog/2011/04/14/creating-hyperlinks-between-webi-reports-in-infoview
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Still getting error...I tried this
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AK: Done
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I need to create a object get MTD, YTD of PS volume measure in Universe get data from Cube in SAP Business Warehouse.I have been tried to do many time and based on OLAP Universe best practice document from Ingo Hilgefort but it still generates errors.
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Hi,
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For a fast intro into the information design tool, you can [have a look at this|http://blog.davidg.com.au/2011/04/bi40-information-design-tool.html].
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