Thavash Govender Senior BI Consultant iSolve Business Solutions BIN307

Session Objectives and Takeaways Understand MDX integration points KPIs Report Views Filters

Topics MDX in KPIs Create Trends KPIs banded by Stated Score Ability to pass measures to Analytic Reports Show textual or date information MDX in Report Views Custom MDX Report View MDX in Filters Dynamic Filters Filter Override expressions Tabular filters

The Possibilities Trends and Dates in Scorecards Totals Changing Analysis in Grids

Creating Trend Targets Using MDX you can create trend targets in your KPIs Create a new target Enter an MDX expression for the value

Creating Trend Targets Format the target as a percentage Set calculation column to default Will set thresholds as part of stated score demo

Stated Score Banding MDX can be used to control your banding through the use of Stated Score Useful when you want to band by a different number than either your actual or a comparison between actual and target

Stated Score Banding Select “Band by stated score (advanced)” Make sure you “Specify Data Mapping…”

Stated Score Banding Enter your MDX expression that you want to band by Set up your thresholds – these are based on the result of the calculation you just entered

Pass Measures to Reports Using a custom property and MDX, you can configure a KPI in a scorecard to pass the measure name to an analytic report Enables creation of single report vs multiple for each KPI (EX: trend chart for KPI over last 12 months)

Pass Measures to Reports Set custom property on each KPI with MDX expression representing the measure

Pass Measures to Reports Create trend chart

Pass Measures to Reports Link scorecard property to report view

Custom MDX Report Views Need to show a filtered view or a view with subtotals? Use custom MDX Warning: You will lose navigation on these custom views

Custom MDX Report Views Top 10 Count (with Filter Parameter)

Custom MDX Report Views Subtotals

Custom MDX Report Views

Dynamic Filters Create an MDX filter in order to keep your filters dynamic New members added to cube will be added to filter No way to set a default member

Filter Override Expressions Pass an expression from a selected filter to a report view Reference currently selected filter member by >

Filter Override Expressions Simple MDX expressions Some complex expressions have not worked for me (Generate, VBA functions, etc)

Tabular Filters Ability to pass filter values to multiple data sources Ex: 2 cubes with slightly different hierarchies, but similar members Ex: use 1 filter to pass context to tabular data sources and OLAP data sources Ex: use a tabular data source to change dimension members shown in analytic charts/grids DO NOT use a tabular filter when you simply want to have a filter for tabular data sources (use Member Selection)

Tabular Filters Ignore aggregations List each member of your data source even if duplicates

Tabular Filters Multiple cubes that do not use shared hierarchies, yet hierarchies are very similar Can construct a tabular filter, put values in Excel for source of filter

Tabular Filters Create Tabular Filter based off data source Can construct a tabular filter, put MDX values in Excel for source of filter

Tabular Filters Link to the different views by the appropriate column name

Tabular Filters Create a single chart and let user choose which dimension to analyze by

Tabular Filters Create your tabular data source containing your filter display values and MDX expressions

Tabular Filters Create your report view Create your tabular filter

Tabular Filters Link the filter to the report view

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