Drill into data in an essbase cube.

Question

Hey all, I have a problem I need some help/advice with.
I have an Essbase cube which has a date style hierachy of year, year & quarter, year and month, year month and day.
I have a chart showing the current values, monthly, over the last 12 months. When you select one of the monthsit drills into the data to show the daily values for the month selected. All works OK.
The only problem I have, and it os only cosmetic, is that the time access along the bottom changes to show values for every level in the hierachy, and I only want it to show the next level down.
Example - desired:
2010/08 -> 01/08/2010.........02/08/2010..... etc.....
Example - current:
2010/08 -> 2010, 2010/Q3, 2010/08, 01/08/2010.........2010, 2010/Q3, 2010/08, 02/08/2010........etc....
The only solution I have at present is to change the interaction to naviagte rather than drill and the navigated report is the correct format.
Can anyone else suggest anything?
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

11.1.1 DBAG:
Methods for Clearing Data from Specific Regions of Aggregate Storage Databases:
Within an aggregate storage database, you can clear data from a specific region and retain the data located in other regions. This feature is useful when you want to delete volatile data (such as data corresponding to the last month) but retain historical data. You must have Database Manager or Administrator permission to clear data.
Methods for clearing data from a region:
(1) Physical, in which the input cells in the region are physically removed from the database
(2) Logical, in which the input cells in the region are written to a new data slice and negative, compensating values are used, thus resulting in a value of zero for the cells that are cleared
To clear data from a specified region, you can use the alter database MaxL statement with the clear data in region grammar. The syntax for the statement is as follows:
*alter database appname.dbname clear data in region {MDX set expression} [physical];*
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