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Friday, March 30, 2012

I don't want my cube to sort my measures and dimensions alphabetically

My cube has multiple measures and dimensions, and I want them to show in the field list of my pivot table in a specific order. However, when I preview them in BI Development Studio Browser, it automatically sorts in alphabetical. I don't want Analysis Service to reorder my measures and dimensions. Is there a way to diable the sorting feature of SSAS?

I'm afraid it's not possible:(. Oledb specification explicitly states that measure schema rowset (same true for dimensions) are sorted by name.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/es-es/library/ms126250.aspx

You can try (and I have not tries this approach myself) to name dimensions and measures so, the form a specific order and give captions that are what you want your user to see. The more I think about this approach the less I like it.

Friday, February 24, 2012

HyperLink in reports?

Is it possible to do hyperlink in reports? say I have a Matrix report, when
the user clicks on the specific item, it drills down to the detail page. Is
it possible?Right click on the field you want them to use.
Select Properties
Click Advanced Button
Choose Navigation Tab
Then fill in the Navigation Info
(You have to recolor and underline it to make it look like a link, it's
not automatic)