Dynamic Hierarchy in SSAS cube in MDX

Hello Every 1,
My Greetings for the day!!!
I am Hiren Parikh from India, working for a French Organisation.
I am developing a cube which has a different requirement related to Date Hierarchy.
They have asked us to create a dynamic date hierarchy like last 5 years from current year, last 5 quarters from current quarters, Last Year, Last Quarter etc. This means the values in this hierarchy will automatically get changed on regular basis.
For eg :- Last 5 years will include (members 2014,2013,2012,2011,2010) the same will get change in 2015 to (2015,2014,2013,2012,2011)
Can you please suggest, How can I achieve ?
Thanks in Advance,
Regards,
Hiren Parikh

Hi Hiren,
According to your description, you need to create a hierarchy that the members should change along with date automatically, right?
In this case, you can limit the dimension members on the data source view by adding where clause.
where datediff(year,'2011-08-12',getdate())<=5
In this case, the year member on the date dimension always only contain last 5 years.
Reference
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174859.aspx
If this is not what you want, please elaborate your requirement, so that we can make further analysis.
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