How to show both "ID and Name" in the NemeColumn of a dimension?

Hi All,

When creating a new dimension we are restricted in selecting one coulmn from the table to be shown as the "NameColumn" of the dimension; i need to display both ID and Name from the table as the "NameColumn", how could i do this?

Since in AS 2000 this can be done easily

Thanks,

Ghadeer Omari

Since you want to show ID and name, you have to somehow concatinate them. And there could be multiple ways to do that - with space, with dash, etc. I usually in such cases go to data source views and create named calculations :

FullName: ID + '-' + Name

Then I use new named calculation in name column.

Vidas Matelis

|||

Dear Matelis,

Thanks very much this works.

How to set default date

Hi Guys,

I have a time standard dimension used as a filter to my report.

How can I set the parameter to get the current month and year to be used by the time standard filter.

Select the report, and go to Report->Parameters, select the parameter, in the default values sectoin, set the value there. You can use function too, like get current date, use =Today, and DatePart() to get year, month, date, whatever.

how to set a dimension attribute as a simple "note" field?

I have a simple cube,
dimensions are time and customers (id, name, address, contry, etc), fact are
quantity
On Y axes I have to show the customer name AND the address.
if I drag and drop only the id and name, the query is fast, and it works
fine, If after the name I also add the address, the query becames very slow
I belive this is because of aggregation on the address attribute, that I
really don't need, the address is specific to every customer and it does not
make any sense to do calculation on this.
I only need to show che address near the name, without any aggregation
How can I do it?
Is there any property I have to set?
Thank you
Alessandro Belli
Hello Alessandro,
I understand that you'd like to specify an dimension attribute as a
property not to be aggregated. If I'm off-base, please let me know.
You may want to consider define attribute relationship bewteen attribute
name and address, thus you could display address as member property of name
and do not necessary to drag name attribute to the browser which cause more
calculations and overhead even if they are 1:1 relationship. When you drag
a dimension attribute into the browser it is used as normal attribute
anyway though at running time, it will gain performance improvement when
engine may find it has 1:1 relationship with another attribute.
By default, dimension attribute are related to key dimension attribute by a
attribute relationship. In VS 2005, you could open the dimension in VS
project, and check the attribute relationships defined on the key attribute
( I assume it is "id" in the dimension).
You may want to create a attribute relationship directly on name attribute
and define the relationship bweteen name and address. You will be able to
see address as the member property of the name attribute in browser. You
could right click the a name cell->Show properties in report->Show All
properties in report.
The other option that you could display name/address at the same time ( I
assume it is 1:1 relationship) is that you create a new column on dimension
source table, and merge (name, address) column to a new column such as
name-address. You could use this new column as a attribute directly in the
dimension attribute.
If you have further questions or concerns on the issue, please feel free to
let's know. Than you.
Best Regards,
Peter Yang
MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
Microsoft Online Community Support
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|||Peter Yang [MSFT] wrote:

> Hello Alessandro,
> I understand that you'd like to specify an dimension attribute as a
> property not to be aggregated. If I'm off-base, please let me know.
> You may want to consider define attribute relationship bewteen attribute
> name and address, thus you could display address as member property of name
> and do not necessary to drag name attribute to the browser which cause more
> calculations and overhead even if they are 1:1 relationship. When you drag
> a dimension attribute into the browser it is used as normal attribute
> anyway though at running time, it will gain performance improvement when
> engine may find it has 1:1 relationship with another attribute.
> By default, dimension attribute are related to key dimension attribute by a
> attribute relationship. In VS 2005, you could open the dimension in VS
> project, and check the attribute relationships defined on the key attribute
> ( I assume it is "id" in the dimension).
> You may want to create a attribute relationship directly on name attribute
> and define the relationship bweteen name and address. You will be able to
> see address as the member property of the name attribute in browser. You
> could right click the a name cell->Show properties in report->Show All
> properties in report.
> The other option that you could display name/address at the same time ( I
> assume it is 1:1 relationship) is that you create a new column on dimension
> source table, and merge (name, address) column to a new column such as
> name-address. You could use this new column as a attribute directly in the
> dimension attribute.
> If you have further questions or concerns on the issue, please feel free to
> let's know. Than you.
> Best Regards,
> Peter Yang
> MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
> Microsoft Online Community Support
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You can add address as property for name attribute and can create
calculated measure on this property.
Regards
Amish Shah
http://shahamishm.tripod.com
|||Peter Yang [MSFT] wrote:

> Hello Alessandro,
> I understand that you'd like to specify an dimension attribute as a
> property not to be aggregated. If I'm off-base, please let me know.
> You may want to consider define attribute relationship bewteen attribute
> name and address, thus you could display address as member property of name
> and do not necessary to drag name attribute to the browser which cause more
> calculations and overhead even if they are 1:1 relationship. When you drag
> a dimension attribute into the browser it is used as normal attribute
> anyway though at running time, it will gain performance improvement when
> engine may find it has 1:1 relationship with another attribute.
> By default, dimension attribute are related to key dimension attribute by a
> attribute relationship. In VS 2005, you could open the dimension in VS
> project, and check the attribute relationships defined on the key attribute
> ( I assume it is "id" in the dimension).
> You may want to create a attribute relationship directly on name attribute
> and define the relationship bweteen name and address. You will be able to
> see address as the member property of the name attribute in browser. You
> could right click the a name cell->Show properties in report->Show All
> properties in report.
> The other option that you could display name/address at the same time ( I
> assume it is 1:1 relationship) is that you create a new column on dimension
> source table, and merge (name, address) column to a new column such as
> name-address. You could use this new column as a attribute directly in the
> dimension attribute.
> If you have further questions or concerns on the issue, please feel free to
> let's know. Than you.
> Best Regards,
> Peter Yang
> MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
> Microsoft Online Community Support
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You can add address as property for name attribute and can create
calculated measure on this property.
Regards
Amish Shah
http://shahamishm.tripod.com
|||Thank you for you suggestion, but is not clear to me how to make a
relationship between name and address.
Is enought to set address.keycolumn= customers.name and
addess.namecolumn=address?
Or what I have to do to make the realtionship?
The key of the dimension is a field named "code". Do I also have to set
name.keycolumn=customers.code?
After this when I browse the cube and I right click the name cell->Show
properties in report->Show All
> properties in report the option is grayed.
Thank's
Alessandro
"Peter Yang [MSFT]" <petery@.online.microsoft.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:gdsQ4cR4GHA.2336@.TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl...
> Hello Alessandro,
> I understand that you'd like to specify an dimension attribute as a
> property not to be aggregated. If I'm off-base, please let me know.
> You may want to consider define attribute relationship bewteen attribute
> name and address, thus you could display address as member property of
> name
> and do not necessary to drag name attribute to the browser which cause
> more
> calculations and overhead even if they are 1:1 relationship. When you drag
> a dimension attribute into the browser it is used as normal attribute
> anyway though at running time, it will gain performance improvement when
> engine may find it has 1:1 relationship with another attribute.
> By default, dimension attribute are related to key dimension attribute by
> a
> attribute relationship. In VS 2005, you could open the dimension in VS
> project, and check the attribute relationships defined on the key
> attribute
> ( I assume it is "id" in the dimension).
> You may want to create a attribute relationship directly on name attribute
> and define the relationship bweteen name and address. You will be able to
> see address as the member property of the name attribute in browser. You
> could right click the a name cell->Show properties in report->Show All
> properties in report.
> The other option that you could display name/address at the same time ( I
> assume it is 1:1 relationship) is that you create a new column on
> dimension
> source table, and merge (name, address) column to a new column such as
> name-address. You could use this new column as a attribute directly in the
> dimension attribute.
> If you have further questions or concerns on the issue, please feel free
> to
> let's know. Than you.
> Best Regards,
> Peter Yang
> MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
> Microsoft Online Community Support
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|||Hello Alessandro,
You could try the following steps to add attribute relationship between
name and address attribute.
1. Open customer dimension by double click the dimension on the right panel
2. Drag Address column from the source table in Data Source View to the
Name Attribute on the left panel, and you shall see a new Attribute
relationship under attribute Name.
3. Process the dimension and cube and you shall see member property Address
under Name Attribute
Please see if this could meet your requirement. If you have any concerns or
questions, please let me know. Thank you.
Best Regards,
Peter Yang
MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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================================================== ====

how to set a dimension attribute as a simple "note" field?

I have a simple cube,
dimensions are time and customers (id, name, address, contry, etc), fact are
quantity
On Y axes I have to show the customer name AND the address.
if I drag and drop only the id and name, the query is fast, and it works
fine, If after the name I also add the address, the query becames very slow
I belive this is because of aggregation on the address attribute, that I
really don't need, the address is specific to every customer and it does not
make any sense to do calculation on this.
I only need to show che address near the name, without any aggregation
How can I do it?
Is there any property I have to set?
Thank you
Alessandro BelliHello Alessandro,
I understand that you'd like to specify an dimension attribute as a
property not to be aggregated. If I'm off-base, please let me know.
You may want to consider define attribute relationship bewteen attribute
name and address, thus you could display address as member property of name
and do not necessary to drag name attribute to the browser which cause more
calculations and overhead even if they are 1:1 relationship. When you drag
a dimension attribute into the browser it is used as normal attribute
anyway though at running time, it will gain performance improvement when
engine may find it has 1:1 relationship with another attribute.
By default, dimension attribute are related to key dimension attribute by a
attribute relationship. In VS 2005, you could open the dimension in VS
project, and check the attribute relationships defined on the key attribute
( I assume it is "id" in the dimension).
You may want to create a attribute relationship directly on name attribute
and define the relationship bweteen name and address. You will be able to
see address as the member property of the name attribute in browser. You
could right click the a name cell->Show properties in report->Show All
properties in report.
The other option that you could display name/address at the same time ( I
assume it is 1:1 relationship) is that you create a new column on dimension
source table, and merge (name, address) column to a new column such as
name-address. You could use this new column as a attribute directly in the
dimension attribute.
If you have further questions or concerns on the issue, please feel free to
let's know. Than you.
Best Regards,
Peter Yang
MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
Microsoft Online Community Support
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This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.|||Peter Yang [MSFT] wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Hello Alessandro,
> I understand that you'd like to specify an dimension attribute as a
> property not to be aggregated. If I'm off-base, please let me know.
> You may want to consider define attribute relationship bewteen attribute
> name and address, thus you could display address as member property of nam
e
> and do not necessary to drag name attribute to the browser which cause mor
e
> calculations and overhead even if they are 1:1 relationship. When you drag
> a dimension attribute into the browser it is used as normal attribute
> anyway though at running time, it will gain performance improvement when
> engine may find it has 1:1 relationship with another attribute.
> By default, dimension attribute are related to key dimension attribute by
a
> attribute relationship. In VS 2005, you could open the dimension in VS
> project, and check the attribute relationships defined on the key attribut
e
> ( I assume it is "id" in the dimension).
> You may want to create a attribute relationship directly on name attribute
> and define the relationship bweteen name and address. You will be able to
> see address as the member property of the name attribute in browser. You
> could right click the a name cell->Show properties in report->Show All
> properties in report.
> The other option that you could display name/address at the same time ( I
> assume it is 1:1 relationship) is that you create a new column on dimensio
n
> source table, and merge (name, address) column to a new column such as
> name-address. You could use this new column as a attribute directly in the
> dimension attribute.
> If you have further questions or concerns on the issue, please feel free t
o
> let's know. Than you.
> Best Regards,
> Peter Yang
> MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
> Microsoft Online Community Support
> ========================================
==========
> Get notification to my posts through email? Please refer to
> l]
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You can add address as property for name attribute and can create
calculated measure on this property.
Regards
Amish Shah
http://shahamishm.tripod.com|||Peter Yang [MSFT] wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Hello Alessandro,
> I understand that you'd like to specify an dimension attribute as a
> property not to be aggregated. If I'm off-base, please let me know.
> You may want to consider define attribute relationship bewteen attribute
> name and address, thus you could display address as member property of nam
e
> and do not necessary to drag name attribute to the browser which cause mor
e
> calculations and overhead even if they are 1:1 relationship. When you drag
> a dimension attribute into the browser it is used as normal attribute
> anyway though at running time, it will gain performance improvement when
> engine may find it has 1:1 relationship with another attribute.
> By default, dimension attribute are related to key dimension attribute by
a
> attribute relationship. In VS 2005, you could open the dimension in VS
> project, and check the attribute relationships defined on the key attribut
e
> ( I assume it is "id" in the dimension).
> You may want to create a attribute relationship directly on name attribute
> and define the relationship bweteen name and address. You will be able to
> see address as the member property of the name attribute in browser. You
> could right click the a name cell->Show properties in report->Show All
> properties in report.
> The other option that you could display name/address at the same time ( I
> assume it is 1:1 relationship) is that you create a new column on dimensio
n
> source table, and merge (name, address) column to a new column such as
> name-address. You could use this new column as a attribute directly in the
> dimension attribute.
> If you have further questions or concerns on the issue, please feel free t
o
> let's know. Than you.
> Best Regards,
> Peter Yang
> MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
> Microsoft Online Community Support
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> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.[/vbcol
]
You can add address as property for name attribute and can create
calculated measure on this property.
Regards
Amish Shah
http://shahamishm.tripod.com|||Thank you for you suggestion, but is not clear to me how to make a
relationship between name and address.
Is enought to set address.keycolumn= customers.name and
addess.namecolumn=address?
Or what I have to do to make the realtionship?
The key of the dimension is a field named "code". Do I also have to set
name.keycolumn=customers.code?
After this when I browse the cube and I right click the name cell->Show
properties in report->Show All
> properties in report the option is grayed.
Thank's
Alessandro
"Peter Yang [MSFT]" <petery@.online.microsoft.com> ha scritto nel messagg
io
news:gdsQ4cR4GHA.2336@.TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl...
> Hello Alessandro,
> I understand that you'd like to specify an dimension attribute as a
> property not to be aggregated. If I'm off-base, please let me know.
> You may want to consider define attribute relationship bewteen attribute
> name and address, thus you could display address as member property of
> name
> and do not necessary to drag name attribute to the browser which cause
> more
> calculations and overhead even if they are 1:1 relationship. When you drag
> a dimension attribute into the browser it is used as normal attribute
> anyway though at running time, it will gain performance improvement when
> engine may find it has 1:1 relationship with another attribute.
> By default, dimension attribute are related to key dimension attribute by
> a
> attribute relationship. In VS 2005, you could open the dimension in VS
> project, and check the attribute relationships defined on the key
> attribute
> ( I assume it is "id" in the dimension).
> You may want to create a attribute relationship directly on name attribute
> and define the relationship bweteen name and address. You will be able to
> see address as the member property of the name attribute in browser. You
> could right click the a name cell->Show properties in report->Show All
> properties in report.
> The other option that you could display name/address at the same time ( I
> assume it is 1:1 relationship) is that you create a new column on
> dimension
> source table, and merge (name, address) column to a new column such as
> name-address. You could use this new column as a attribute directly in the
> dimension attribute.
> If you have further questions or concerns on the issue, please feel free
> to
> let's know. Than you.
> Best Regards,
> Peter Yang
> MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
> Microsoft Online Community Support
> ========================================
==========
> Get notification to my posts through email? Please refer to
> l]
> ications
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> Note: The MSDN Managed Newsgroup support offering is for non-urgent issues
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> Engineer within 1 business day is acceptable. Please note that each follow
> up response may take approximately 2 business days as the support
> professional working with you may need further investigation to reach the
> most efficient resolution. The offering is not appropriate for situations
> that require urgent, real-time or phone-based interactions or complex
> project analysis and dump analysis issues. Issues of this nature are best
> handled working with a dedicated Microsoft Support Engineer by contacting
> Microsoft Customer Support Services (CSS) at
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscript...rt/default.aspx>.
> ========================================
==========
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>|||Hello Alessandro,
You could try the following steps to add attribute relationship between
name and address attribute.
1. Open customer dimension by double click the dimension on the right panel
2. Drag Address column from the source table in Data Source View to the
Name Attribute on the left panel, and you shall see a new Attribute
relationship under attribute Name.
3. Process the dimension and cube and you shall see member property Address
under Name Attribute
Please see if this could meet your requirement. If you have any concerns or
questions, please let me know. Thank you.
Best Regards,
Peter Yang
MCSE2000/2003, MCSA, MCDBA
Microsoft Online Partner Support
========================================
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How to set a default value for a parameter - Fromperiod 7 ToPeriod from script

I have two parameters called FromPeriod & ToPeriod of type String. It
is actually a parameter for a dimension calendarYearMonth.
The default value of ToPeriod I want is 2006009 for the current month
which is Sept 2006 and I want FromPeriod to be 2005009 which is current
date - 365.
I want the default value to be derived from the current system date and
assign the current year and current month concatenated together to
FromPeriod & ToPeriod
Appreciate if you could kindly share the approach to implement this.
Thanks
KarenCreate a new dataset which can either select the current system date using
getDate() or can calculate the full text string you are after based on
getDate().
In the parameters window reached through the report menu, set the default
value to derive from query and reference the new dataset there.
Hope that helped.
"KarenM" wrote:
> I have two parameters called FromPeriod & ToPeriod of type String. It
> is actually a parameter for a dimension calendarYearMonth.
> The default value of ToPeriod I want is 2006009 for the current month
> which is Sept 2006 and I want FromPeriod to be 2005009 which is current
> date - 365.
> I want the default value to be derived from the current system date and
> assign the current year and current month concatenated together to
> FromPeriod & ToPeriod
> Appreciate if you could kindly share the approach to implement this.
> Thanks
> Karen
>