Advanced Row and Column selections

Named sets

In v6.5 two new options are now available, Between and Manual MDX.

The screenshot below shows a simple grid displaying a measure across Products and Calendar Years 2002 – 2004.

Double-clicking on the Date.Calendar hierarchy allows us to edit the hierarchy – click on Advanced tab and you will see window as below

Click on Member Set and the following window will be displayed:

Between

This option allows the user to report for a particular range on that hierarchy. For example, we can choose to report all data between 2002 and 2004 as below:

There is also an option to enter an Excel range as below – we will run the grid report based on values in $I$3 and $I$4. The start range value is in $I$3 and the last range value is $I$4.

Another feature of using the range option is that you can choose to leave one of the ranges blank.

Value in $I$3	Value in $I$4	What will be reported
CY2002	CY2004	Grid report will report data starting CY 2002 through to CY 2004
	CY2004	Grid report will report data starting from earliest date through to CY 2004
CY2003		Grid report will report data from CY 2003 through to latest date

Manual MDX

This option allows you to use MDX code – click on the ellipse to the right of the Manual MDX radio button and you will be able to enter MDX code in the following window:

For example if you only want to report CY 2002 and CY 2004 you would enter {[CY 2002], {CY 2004]} in the Manual MDX window. You can also specify an Excel cell range as the MDX source. Once you have defined your named set you can then select to report Descendants, Lowest Descendants or Descendants At.