Parameters in OLAP Intelligence

Question

Hi,
I am currently using OLAP Intelligence because Voyager did not even give me the functionality I want, but I'm having a problem.
I have a view created with OLAP Intelligence connected to a SAP BW cube, really want to move from this view to a second view of another cube in BW. I know OLAP Intelligence has not this functionality because it is not multi source but I'm trying to do it through a URL. When I open the first view, I asked some set of parameters to filter, then come have a button associated with an action and when I click on it a URL leads through to the second view (the second cube). My problem is with the URL to pass the parameters because the URL is not sending me the current members. Proven to function currentmember not work for me.
The dimension and hierarchy that I have are:
Time
  Year / Month
    2003
    2002
Therefore the first time when I am asked to put parameter (for example, 2002) my first view filter it, later I can selected another member through the member selector for example [Time]. [Year / Month]. [2003] and want to jump to the second view, but the second view doesnt filter my data.
My URL is:
"http://cdi5boe:8080/businessobjects/enterprise115/desktoplaunch/opendoc/
openDocument.jsp? & sPath = [Liverpool] & sType=car&siDocID=65478
& lsS907B8C93-C89E-4872-87% 2CC8% 2C1E% 2C8% 2C56% 2C81% 2CB7% 2CDD =
%5BTime%5D.%5BYear%2FMonth%5D.CurrentMember.Name "
Can you help me to use correctly the MDX function? I think it is my problem.
Regards,
Sandra.

Answer 1

Hi,
If you create a cell type action rather than a member action you can get context from multiple dimensions.
The general syntax for your URL would be:
"http://mysever/myscriptpage.jsp?param1=" + [Dimnesion1].* +"&param2=" + [Dimension2].*
Here, for the selected cell in the cross-tab, the member from each dimension specified is substituted into the URL. To use a member from a specific dimension you need to use the dimension's unique name followed by a dot and a start in the action definition. So for example if the cell I had selected consisted of member ABC on dimension 1 and member XYZ on dimension 2, the final URL produced might look like the following:
http://mysever/myscriptpage.jsp?param1=[Dimension1].[ABC]&param2=[Dimension2].[ZYX]
You can add MDX or OLAP Intelligence syntax again around the wild cards:
MDX
[Dimension Uniquename].*.uniquename
OLAP Intelligence Syntax
GetUniqueName([Dimension Uniquename].*)
There seams to be a bit of a pug in the parser of the version of OLAP Intelligence I'm using which means that if you want to concatenate two parameters right next to each other the following produces an error:
"http://mysever/myscriptpage.jsp?param1=" + [Dimnesion1].* + [Dimension2].*
but you can get the same effect by concatenating an empty string in between the two items so the following works fine:
"http://mysever/myscriptpage.jsp?param1=" + [Dimnesion1].* + "" + [Dimension2].*
Reuben