Multiple condition filters for loading rowsources

Question

It looks like datasource to rowsource map filters are and'ed. Say I'm loading records with a plant location field. Then creating two filters, 'Plant equals US' and 'Plant equals Canada' will result in no records loaded.
Is there a way to cause filters to be or'd in IOP or does this have to be done externally?
Thanks.
Edited by: matt on Dec 7, 2010 3:08 PM

Answer 1

Yes, thats the current behavior. You can use two measures, if that makes sense. Our recommendation is to do all the filtering externally in ETL layer as this reduces the amount of data that gets loaded into rowsources and reduces load time. This doesnt work if there is a requirement to see all the data in rowsource through RSQL query. Otherwise, there is no need to have the data in rowsource and could be filtered out before it enters the IOP system.
The filtering is typically used when there is a need to see all the data in rowsource query, but only push the filtered value into the cubes. It is typically used in two instances (1) to represent different states, say, a column value moves from booked, received, ordered, etc. (2) table (datasource/rowsource) has a single column that needs to be loaded into multiple measures and the filtering column decides the measure to which the column gets loaded -- booked order, shipped order, etc. and there is a column which says what the column (like state)