Equivalent of SYSDATE function in SAP MDX

Question

For scheduling a web intelligence report, we will have to build a logic in the report or universe to automatically refresh the report for last week or last month or last year as per the requirement.
For this, is any one aware of an  MDX function equivalent to SYSDATE.
We cannot go for an SAP exit variable to implement this functionality as the condition would be applied transparently at universe level, which means any report built on this universe will run for a fixed period as defined in bex query. But the requirement is to be able to schedule the reports with different frequencies (weekly report should run for last week data,monthly report should run for last month data,yearly report should run for last year data).
Please let me know if my requirement is not clear.
I hope this post would be useful for many consultants.
Thank You.
Best Regards.
Naresh

Answer 1

I suggest you define calculated measures in the OLAP Universe using the Universe Design Tool. Here is a sample MDX query that illustrates how to build the measures expressions.
  MDX query  -
WITH
MEMBER [Measures].[Quantity Sold in Latest Month] AS 
  '([Measures].[0D_INV_QTY], TAIL(EXCEPT({[0CALMONTH].[LEVEL01].members}, {[0CALMONTH].[000000]}),1).item(0).item(0))'
MEMBER [Measures].[Amount Sold in Latest Month] AS 
  '([Measures].[0D_NETVLINV], TAIL(EXCEPT({[0CALMONTH].[LEVEL01].members}, {[0CALMONTH].[000000]}),1).item(0).item(0))'
SELECT
{[Measures].[Quantity Sold in Latest Month],[Measures].[Amount Sold in Latest Month]} ON columns,
{[0D_DIV].[LEVEL01].members} on rows
FROM [$0D_DECU]
  Result  -
Division     Quantity Sold in Latest Month      Amount Sold in Latest Month
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