Non visual totals in Analysis Services Tabular

Are there any work-a-rounds to achieve non-visual totals in Analysis Services tabular? This is a crucial feature for some of our clients and is preventing them from adopting this technology due to this feature not being available out of the box
as with Multidimensional OLAP. If not, are there any plans to introduce this feature for Analysis Services tabular models?

Hi Geoff3c,
As you know SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) Tabular only supports visual totals. This is a differences between Analysis Services OLAP and Tabular that SSAS OLAP provides one feature that SSAS Tabular does not: non-Visual Totals. It was considered that
non-visual totals are not terribly common, but some developers have worked for clients where non-visual totals were required.
If you have any concern about this feature, you can submit a feedback at
http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/Feedback and hope it is released in the next release of service pack or product. Your feedback enables Microsoft to make software and services the best that they can be, Microsoft might consider to add this feature
in the following release after official confirmation.
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