The "Measures" dimension contains more than one hierarchy... Collation issue

Question

It appears that an Excel query pased through to SSAS has a "measures" with lowercase "m" when analysis services expects an uppercase "M" so it should look like "Measures". Is there a fix in excel to allow
the correct passing of "Measures" member name to the cube?
BTW, I have NO Calculations in the cube.
In excel 2013 when I pivot with a pivot table connected to a case sensitive collation (non default config)
cube and perform a filter by "Keep only Selected Items" I get the error "The 'Measures' dimension contains more than one hierarchy, therefore the hierarchy must be explicity specified".
When I revert back to server wide setting to case insensitive, and I preform the exact same pivoting function it works without error. The problem appears to be that excel does not understand the server collation setting.
When I run SQL Server Profilier I narrowed down the MDX statement run in Excel that gives me an error to this:
with
member measures.__XlItemPath as
Generate(
Ascendants([Employee].[Location Code].currentmember),
[Employee].[Location Code].currentmember.unique_name,
"|__XLPATHSEP__|"
member measures.__XlSiblingCount as
Generate(
Ascendants([Employee].[Location Code].currentmember),
AddCalculatedMembers([Employee].[Location Code].currentmember.siblings).count,
"|__XLPATHSEP__|"
member measures.__XlChildCount as
AddCalculatedMembers([Employee].[Location Code].currentmember.children).count
select { measures.__XlItemPath, measures.__XlSiblingCount, measures.__XlChildCount } on columns,
[Employee].[Location Code].&[01W]
dimension properties MEMBER_TYPE
on rows
from [Metrics]
cell properties value
Playing around with the query I discovered that if I capitalize the first letter of the "with measures" member, the statement works.
with
member Measures.__XlItemPath as
Generate(
Ascendants([Employee].[Location Code].currentmember),
[Employee].[Location Code].currentmember.unique_name,
"|__XLPATHSEP__|"
member Measures.__XlSiblingCount as
Generate(
Ascendants([Employee].[Location Code].currentmember),
AddCalculatedMembers([Employee].[Location Code].currentmember.siblings).count,
"|__XLPATHSEP__|"
member Measures.__XlChildCount as
AddCalculatedMembers([Employee].[Location Code].currentmember.children).count
select { measures.__XlItemPath, measures.__XlSiblingCount, measures.__XlChildCount } on columns,
[Employee].[Location Code].&[01W]
dimension properties MEMBER_TYPE
on rows
from [Metrics]
cell properties value
Also, I realise that I could change the collation on just the cube itself to case insenstive to get this to work, but I really don't want to do an impact analysis of running a mixed collation environment.
So, my question is: Is there an excel fix that will allow me to run a case sensitve cube and allow me to click on filter and filter by "keep only selected items" or "Hide selected Items"? All other filtering works, it's only those two
filtering options error for me.
Here are the versions I'm working with:
Excel 2013 (15.0.4535.1507) MSO(15.0.4551.1007) 32-bit Part of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013
Microsoft Analysis Server Enterprise 2012 11.0.3000.0
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

Hi, i assume this logic is for Dimension formula?
If you have multiple hierarchy like ParentH1 and ParentH2 you should use FormulaH1 and FormulaH2 and not FORMULA column.
in FORMULAH1
[Account.H1].[Account_A] / [Account.H1].[Account_B]