DAT352 Developing Analysis Services Applications Using Microsoft ® Office XP Tom Conlon Program Manager SQL Server Business Intelligence Unit Microsoft Corp.

Office XP Business Intelligence Whats new in BI for Office 10 Web Components Whats new in BI for Office 10 Web Components – Summary and Demo What new in BI for Office 10 in Excel What new in BI for Office 10 in Excel – Summary and Demo Excel CubeCellValue Addin Excel CubeCellValue Addin Code examples Code examples – Drillthrough – Actions – Writeback

What’s New in OWC BI Features PivotList PivotList – Completing the picture – Full filtering support – More grouping options Charting Charting – PivotCharts – Better binding to Pivot – Charting improvements Better import/export to Excel experience Better import/export to Excel experience

OWC – Major new OLAP features Grouping (Ad hoc) Grouping (Ad hoc) Grouping (interval) Grouping (interval) Filtering Filtering Custom ordering Custom ordering Member properties Member properties Calculated totals Calculated totals Custom MDX Custom MDX ‘Show data as’ ‘Show data as’

Frequently Asked Questions SQL Server 8 features not supported by PivotTable? SQL Server 8 features not supported by PivotTable? – Drillthrough – Actions – Writeback PivotTable printing? PivotTable printing? – Virtually nonexistent from within IE – Addin/demo available

PivotChart Support Charting now supports a full PivotTable- style drag-and-drop user interface Charting now supports a full PivotTable- style drag-and-drop user interface

OWC Office-XP OLAP features demo demo

Whats new in Excel XP for Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence – Excel XP Business Intelligence was an area that Excel invested in considerably for XP Business Intelligence was an area that Excel invested in considerably for XP This was V2 of BI for Excel. Feature choice was driven by This was V2 of BI for Excel. Feature choice was driven by – Uncompleted work in V1 – Customer feedback from Office 2000 – ITG feedback from Office 2000 Better import/export to OWC experience Better import/export to OWC experience

Excel XP – New PivotTable features New field well New field well GETPIVOTDATA formula generation GETPIVOTDATA formula generation Treeview dropdown improvements Treeview dropdown improvements Reduction of internal limits Reduction of internal limits

Excel XP – New OLAP features Visual totals Visual totals Multi-select page fields Multi-select page fields Custom ad-hoc grouping Custom ad-hoc grouping Member properties Member properties OLAP performance OLAP performance

Object Model – OLAP additions Expose session to VBA programmer Expose session to VBA programmer PivotCell object PivotCell object Events Events Support for background color formatting Support for background color formatting Calculated member collection – create and manage Calculated member collection – create and manage Support for OLAP sets Support for OLAP sets Create CUB file from VBA method Create CUB file from VBA method

Excel XP OLAP features demo demo

CubeCellValue Excel Addin Available on OfficeUpdate loads/2002/CubeCellValue.aspx demo demo

Code Examples: DrillthroughDrillthrough WritebackWriteback ActionsActions demo demo

Summary Office Web Component and Excel invested heavily in OLAP features in Office XP Office Web Component and Excel invested heavily in OLAP features in Office XP Excel CubeCellValue addin available on Office update Excel CubeCellValue addin available on Office update A fairly small amount of code can support additional important features in Office XP, for A fairly small amount of code can support additional important features in Office XP, for – Drillthrough – Writeback – OLAP Actions

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