Default member when filtering on a dimension in excel

Hi,
Many of my users have asked for a way of selecting "Month to date" that can remain in place without having to physically change the month in a date hierarchy. I came up with a way of doing it by creating a pseudocolumn "Current Month"
which shows a "Y" if it matches today's month and an N for all other rows. This has worked effectively, however now i am being asked if it could show "Month YYYY" as opposed to the "Y".
My issue with this is having a default member auto selected in a filtered dimension. I am not sure if this is possible.
I have tried setting a current month dimension member to non aggregateable and then forcing a default member, but that is global without even selecting anything.
Can anybody think of any other way of making the field automatically select when filtered? (Obviously this is necessary because if it says March, and then when it turns into April the data changes and the selection cancels).
Hoping somebody has an idea!
thanks

Hi,
Thanks for the great suggestion. I applied this, but once i did it complained about a duplicate attribute, so i added another key to make it unique but once you do that it shows all months and years in the selection - ideally i want it to just show
the current month in the selection (otherwise it is no different to selecting a month from a regular date hierarchy).
I will continue to work on this idea though because there could be a solution in there!
Thanks

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Dimension default member has a strange impact both in dimension browser and excel filters

Hello All,
I have a scenario where I need to set a default member in a dimension attribute.
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I am trying to create a condition in a dimension defaultMember attribute where I use another dimension as a condition.
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Hi MJGomes,
According to your description, you call another dimension when defining a default member of a dimension. Right?
In Analysis Services, the default member of an attribute is used for queries where members from this attributes is not specified. It can't refer to another dimension in condition or using other dimension member because the member should be a static member
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SSAS Cube Hierarchy Default Member, not aggregatable in pivot table multi select, Urgent

Hi All,
I have one problem in my project ssas cube. one of the dimension hierarchy, a value has been set up as default member in calculation tab.
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When i filter (select multiple) this defaulted value and other value in excel pivot, it is always showing default member value instead of selected members aggregated value. if i remove default member it is working fine. Can you please provide work around
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Hi Hirmando,
According to your description, the default member cause incorrect data when dragging a attribute that contain a default member to the FILTERS area, right?
I can reproduce this issue on my environment, when dropping this dimension in the filter area of my pivot table and select multiple members including the default member then only data for the default member is shown. Currently, it's hard to say the root
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SSAS Default Member Causing incorrect data in Excel Pivot Table using Multi-select in filter

I have an Excel 2013 pivot table connected to an SSAS (2012) cube. One of my dimensions has a default member specified. When I drop this dimension in the filter area of my pivot table and select multiple members including the default member then
only data for the default member is shown. Selecting multiple members where the default member is not included does not result in an issue.
I believe this may be in an issue in how Excel builds the MDX but wanted to see if there are any work arounds.
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Process the cube
Connect to the cube via Excel 2013
Drag internet gross profit to the Values area (The value will be 4700437.22 which reflects the Mountain default filter)
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According to your description, the default member cause incorrect data when dragging a attribute that contain a default member to the FILTERS area, right?
I can reproduce this issue on my environment, when dropping this dimension in the filter area of my pivot table and select multiple members including the default member then only data for the default member is shown. Currently, it's hard to say the root
reason that cause this issue. In order to narrow down this issue, please apply the latest server pack and cumulative update.
Besides, you can submit a feedback at
http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/Feedback So that microsoft will confirm if this is a know issue.
Regards,
Charlie Liao
If you have any feedback on our support, please click
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How to find out by MDX that the current users is member of a role - Default member issue

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just imagine you have a dimension with a few members (A, B, C...). I defined a role which gives some users only rights to "B". On the other hand the default member for the dimension is set to "A". Now users part of the role get an error
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member which is quite some restriction for some users...
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Hi Thomas,
According to your description, you want to have a role-specific default member for different roles. Right?
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Setting default member of attribute hierarchy in MDX script. Default member not taken into account while using user defined hierarchy

Hi all
I have a date dimension that (type time) with attributes
- [FiscalYear] (type years)
- [FiscalMonth] (type months)
- [FiscalWeek] (type weeks)
In addition to the attributes used in the natural hierarchy, I have an attribute [PerType] containing one member comming from the relational table 'WTD' which corresponds to 'Current Date'. All other members of this attribute hierarchy are calculated members (defined in the MDX script). Examples:
--Last year
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Date].[PerType].[LY] AS NULL,
VISIBLE = 1;
SCOPE([Date].[PerType].[LY]);
SCOPE(DESCENDANTS([Date].[Fiscal].[All], [Date].[Fiscal].[Year], SELF_AND_AFTER));
THIS = ([Measures].CurrentMember, [Date].[PerType].[WTD], ParallelPeriod([Date].[Fiscal].[Year], 1));
END SCOPE;
END SCOPE;
--Month to date
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Date].[PerType].[MTD] AS NULL,
VISIBLE = 1;
SCOPE([Date].[PerType].[MTD]);
SCOPE(DESCENDANTS([Date].[Fiscal].[All], [Date].[Fiscal].[Week], SELF_AND_AFTER));
THIS = Aggregate(CrossJoin({[Date].[PerType].[WTD]}, MTD([Date].[Fiscal].CurrentMember)));
END SCOPE;
END SCOPE;
--Year to date
CREATE MEMBER CURRENTCUBE.[Date].[PerType].[YTD] AS NULL,
VISIBLE = 1;
SCOPE([Date].[PerType].[YTD]);
SCOPE(DESCENDANTS([Date].[Fiscal].[All], [Date].[Fiscal].[Period], SELF_AND_AFTER));
THIS = Aggregate(CrossJoin({[Date].[PerType].[WTD]}, YTD([Date].[Fiscal].CurrentMember)));
END SCOPE;
END SCOPE;
The defalut member of FiscalWeek attribute hierarchy is set dynamically in the MDX script:
ALTER CUBE CURRENTCUBE UPDATE DIMENSION [Date].[FiscalWeek], DEFAULT_MEMBER =
Filter(
[Date].[FiscalWeek].Members,
[Date].[FiscalWeek].Properties( "FiscalWeekStartDate", TYPED) <= DateAdd("d", -2, CDate(CStr(Month(Now())) + "/" + CStr(Day(Now())) + "/" + CStr(Year(Now()))))
AND
[Date].[FiscalWeek].Properties( "FiscalWeekEndDate", TYPED) >= DateAdd("d", -2, CDate(CStr(Month(Now())) + "/" + CStr(Day(Now())) + "/" + CStr(Year(Now()))))
)(0).PrevMember;
If I run the following query:
with member
measures.x as [Date].[Fiscal].DefaultMember.Name
measures.y as [Date].[FiscalWeek].DefaultMember.Name
select
measures.x,
measures.y
} on axis(0)
from [GLWeekly]
it gives me back correctly the default member set over the MDX script.
I order the statements in the MDX Script so that the default period (week) is set at the beginning of the script (just after the calculate).
I do not understand why creating the following calculated member I am obliged to specify [Date].[Fiscal].CurrentMember in the tuple to have correct results:
MEMBER [Account].[CoA].[Standard Engagement Revenue (MTD)] AS ([Account].[CoA].[Standard Engagement Revenue], [Date].[PerType].[MTD], [Date].[Fiscal].CurrentMember)
I would expect that:
([Account].[CoA].[Standard Engagement Revenue], [Date].[PerType].[MTD])
is sufficient.
If the default week is specified in the slicer using a member of the natural hierachy (=> [Date].[Fiscal].x) it works.
Why can't SSAS use the default member if it is must defined in the MDX script?
Can someone explains me this. Thanks a lot in advance.

Hi Ina,
have you thought about adding a dynamic statement inside the MDX script? You could define the default member like this:
... DEFAULT_MEMBER = iif( Day( Now() ) = 3, <expression for previous month>, <expression for current month> );
This way you don't need to change it everytime by running a script.
By the way, what do you mean it doesn't update the default member? When you execute this MDX what does it says?
with member measures.x as [Dimension].[HierarchyName].DefaultMember.Name
select { measures.x } on 0 from Cubename
If this returns the correct name, then the problem is somewhere else. I believe it should return you the correct name. Look here, test this on Adventure Works, statement by statement and see what happens.
ALTER
CUBE [Adventure Works]
UPDATE
DIMENSION [Product].[Product Categories],
DEFAULT_MEMBER = [Product].[Product Categories].[Category].&[1]
with
member measures.x
as [Product].[Product Categories].DefaultMember.Name
select measures.x on 0
from [Adventure Works]
ALTER
CUBE [Adventure Works]
UPDATE
DIMENSION [Product].[Product Categories],
DEFAULT_MEMBER = [Product].[Product Categories].[All Products]
with
member measures.x
as [Product].[Product Categories].DefaultMember.Name
select measures.x on 0
from [Adventure Works]
I think you can see which members are default (on related hierarchies) using
MDX Studio. This should help you detect which attributes have not moved accordingly and hence cause problems in your report. The usual suspects are those attributes used in your last month reports. If that's too much for you, just copy paste the definition
of the measure x and use .CurrentMember instead .DefaultMember. And so for all related hierarchies of your dimension. You can run it as one query, just put enough measures (x1, x2, ...), one for each hierarchy, ok?
Here's a test for Day():
with
member measures.y
as
iif( Day(Now()) = 28, 'Yes', 'No' )
select
measures.y on 0
from [Adventure Works]
Today this returns Yes, tomorrow it will be No.
Ups, I just checked one more thing. When you run the script, it sets the default member only for that session. If you execute the first two of the four statements that I've sent you, it will set the default member on Bikes and show you that.
But, if you open another query windows and execute that select statement (only), you'll see All member instead. So, it has set it to Bikes only for the currect session. Consequence? You reports are not aware of it. So, better use dynamic statement in
your MDX script.
Regards,
Tomislav Piasevoli
Business Intelligence Specialist
www.softpro.hr

Essbase hierarchy - Default member type ALL

Hi All!!
When import a cube from essbase the biee automatically select the "Default member type ALL" check box; in the presentation server manual it is said that "The ALL member is identified during import."; where can I find which is this element?
Is it used to select from this hierarchy if I don't select the dimension in my answer criteria?
Is the ALL member to be defined in Essbase? if so where is it to define?
Thanks in advance,
Regards
Daniele

Hi,
Thanks for the great suggestion. I applied this, but once i did it complained about a duplicate attribute, so i added another key to make it unique but once you do that it shows all months and years in the selection - ideally i want it to just show
the current month in the selection (otherwise it is no different to selecting a month from a regular date hierarchy).
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Thanks

[FR] How to set default member in User POV Preview

Hi!
Does anyone know how to set the default member in User POV Preview for first time users?
Example:
For dimension Entity, the default member that appear in first login of user is the Top Level member "Dim_Entity", regardless of security. It happens with all first time users.
We already try to change the User POV in Preferences, but this only limit the choices of user and didn't set the default member.
We are using version 11.1.1.3.
Thanks,
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hope this helps
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Hyperion Query and Reporting
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Year-to-date behaviour when filtered on day-of-week

In our data warehouse design, the time dimension has - amongst others - following columns:
- day id [ = YYYYMMDD format ]
- day of week [ = name of day of week: Monday, Tuesday, ... ]
- week id [ = IYYYIW format ]
- year id [ = IYYY ]
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When adding day-of-week to the filter condition however the result is not as expted; the "net amount" is assigned the total net amount for the chosen day in the chosen week, as hoped for, but the "net amount yet" still is assigned the total net amount for the year up to the chosen day of the chosen week, while I would expect it to be the total net amount of all chosen day-of-weeks (for example, all Tuesdays) of the year up to the Tuesday in the chosen week.
Having a look at the query behind the analysis, the (simplified) code for the YTD information looks like this:
SELECT SUM("net amount")
FROM   "fact",
       "time dimension" td1,
       "time dimension" td2
WHERE td1."week id" = (prompt week value)
AND    td1."day of week" = (prompt day of week value)
AND    td1."year id" = td2."year id"
AND    td2."week id" <= td1."week id"
AND    fact."day id" = td2."day id"As I said, it is simplified, OBIEE in fact uses a bunch of sub queries and ranking sequences to pull this off, but this is in a nutshell the result. And as seen in the query, the second occurence of the time dimension is not filtered on day of week, which results in the YTD sum for all days, not just Tuesdays, or whatever day was selected.
It makes sense in a way, after all, filtering on week does not limit the second occurence of the time dimension to filter on week either. But is there any way to force OBIEE to make an exception and come up with following query (or something similar that does the trick):
SELECT SUM("net amount")
FROM   "fact",
       "time dimension" td1,
       "time dimension" td2
WHERE td1."week id" = (prompt week value)
AND    td1."day of week" = (prompt day of week value)
AND    td1."year id" = td2."year id"
AND    td2."week id" <= td1."week id"
AND    td2."day of week" = (prompt day of week value)
AND    fact."day id" = td2."day id"Thanks in advance for your input.
Edited by: Kurt Geens on Mar 12, 2013 2:52 PM

805771 wrote:
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5 end;
6 /
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Hi folks,
I have a calculation script written as Default member for time dimension as 2014. Now I need to update this as 2015 using XMLA Alter scripts. Could you please help me to derive the script.
Existing calculation MDX:
ALTER CUBE CURRENTCUBE
UPDATE DIMENSION [Period],
DEFAULT_MEMBER = [Period].[Period].[Year].&[2014];
Need to update this to 2015 in all AS databases just through XMLA.
Thanks in advance,
Paddy

Hi Paddy,
According to your description, you want to update the default member of the time dimension into 2015. Right?
In this scenario, you don't have to use an XMLA scripts to do the update, you can directly modify the MDX.
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Reference:
Define a Default Member
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http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/deployment/deployment-guide/jcp.html
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at com.thortech.xl.crypto.tcDefaultDBEncryptionImpl.decrypt(tcDefaultDBEncryptionImpl.java:219)
at com.thortech.xl.crypto.tcCryptoUtil.decrypt(tcCryptoUtil.java:122)
at com.thortech.xl.crypto.tcCryptoUtil.decrypt(tcCryptoUtil.java:200)
at oracle.iam.platform.utils.crypto.CryptoUtil.getDecryptedPassword(CryptoUtil.java:136)
at oracle.iam.transUI.impl.handlers.user.UpdateUsrPwdFields.updateUserPwdFields(UpdateUsrPwd
Fields.java:124)
at oracle.iam.transUI.impl.handlers.user.UpdateUsrPwdFields.execute(UpdateUsrPwdFields.java:
71)
at oracle.iam.platform.kernel.impl.OrchProcessData.runPreProcessEvents(OrchProcessData.java:
898)
<10 mai 2012 16 h 44 CEST> <Error> <oracle.iam.identitytaskflow.logging> <BEA-000000> <IAM-3060023>
I know this is something due to the password parameter but I don't understand what is expected for this one ...
If you someone could help me with this it would be really helpful !
Thanks,
Thibault

Hi, Thanks for your quick answer !
So it solved half of the problem ! Now I've got an other error : decrypt failed
And this is the beginning of the error in the console :
<10 mai 2012 18 h 14 CEST> <Error> <XELLERATE.ACCOUNTMANAGEMENT> <BEA-000000> <Class/Method: tcDefau
ltDBEncryptionImpl/decrypt encounter some problems: Input length must be multiple of 16 when decrypting with padded cipher
javax.crypto.IllegalBlockSizeException: Input length must be multiple of 16 when decrypting with pad
ded cipher
at com.sun.crypto.provider.SunJCE_f.b(DashoA13*..)
at com.sun.crypto.provider.SunJCE_f.b(DashoA13*..)
at com.sun.crypto.provider.AESCipher.engineDoFinal(DashoA13*..)
at javax.crypto.Cipher.doFinal(DashoA13*..)
at com.thortech.xl.crypto.tcDefaultDBEncryptionImpl.decrypt(tcDefaultDBEncryptionImpl.java:2
19)
at com.thortech.xl.crypto.tcCryptoUtil.decrypt(tcCryptoUtil.java:122)
at com.thortech.xl.crypto.tcCryptoUtil.decrypt(tcCryptoUtil.java:200)
at oracle.iam.platform.utils.crypto.CryptoUtil.getDecryptedPassword(CryptoUtil.java:136)
at oracle.iam.transUI.impl.handlers.user.UpdateUsrPwdFields.updateUserPwdFields(UpdateUsrPwd
Fields.java:124)
at oracle.iam.transUI.impl.handlers.user.UpdateUsrPwdFields.execute(UpdateUsrPwdFields.java:
71)
at oracle.iam.platform.kernel.impl.OrchProcessData.runPreProcessEvents(OrchProcessData.java:
898)
What does it means ? My password must be encrypted or something like this ?
Thanks if you can help me with this !!
Thibault

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