An Example of ‘Date tool’ dimension( calculation Dimension)
Recently one of my clients would like to see their Revenue figures represented some of the time as a positive (+VE) value and some time as a negative (-VE) value. They would like to have the ability to select between the two at run time in the Analyses Services Cube. The users are using Excel 2007 as the client tool for reporting. They do not want to change the figures inside the source database but would instead like to apply a mask at runtime. There are some specific post codes which are dedicated to Revenue; this enables revenue transactions to be indentified.
Tags: mdx, time dimension