Drillthrough An Excel Pivot Table Into Analysis Services ?
Oct 5, 2005
Wonder if you could help me ?
I have set up a cube running under MSSQL Server 2000 Analysis services and have created reports in Excel 2002 using pivot tables and linking into the cube as an external data source.
The pivottable works fine and I can slice / dice as usual, the only thing that doesnt work is the drill through into AS. I receive and error message saying "Cannot show detail data for that selection...".
Now I know that the drill through works, as when I create a report using the Analsyis Services Excel Add Inthe drill through works fine, its just how do I get it working using the pivot tables ?
fyi - the reason I dont want to use the Analsyis Services Excel Add In for all the reports is because I have to deploy this to XX number of users, who wont have admin rights on their machines etc etc....
Is there any VB that I could use to perform this drill through and return the results.....or easier ??
I am connecting to SSAS cube from Excel and I have date dimension with 4 fields (I have others but I don't use it for this case). I created 4 fields in order to test all possible scenarios that I could think of:
DateKey:   - Type: System.Integer   - Value: yyyyMMdd Date:   - Type: System.DateTime DateStr0:   - Type: System.String   - Value: dd/MM/yyyy (note: I am not using US culture)   - Example: 01/11/2015  DateStr1:   - Type: System.String   - Value: %d/%M/yyyy (note: I am not using US culture)   - Example: 1/11/2015 Â
Filtering on date is working fine:
Initially, in excel, filtering on date was not working. But after changing dimensional type to time, and setting  DataType to Date, as mentioned in [URL] filter is working fine as you can see in the picture.Grouping on date is not working:
I have hierarchy in my Date dimension and I can group based on hierarchy, no problem. But user is used to pre-build grouping function of excel, and he wants to use that. Pre-build functions of Excel, Group and ungroup seems to be available as you can see in following picture:
But when user clicks 'Group', excel groups it as if it is a string, and that is the problem. User wants to group using pre-build grouping function available in Pivot table. I also find out that Power Pivot Table does not support this excel grouping functionality. And if I understood well, this pre-build grouping functionality of excel, needs to do calculation at run time, and that is not viable solution if you have millions of rows. So Power pivot table does not support pre-build grouping functionality of excel and hence we need to use dimension hierarchy to do the grouping. But I am not using Power Pivot table, I am using simple Pivot Table. So I expect grouping functionality to be working fine. Then I tried to do simple test. I created a simple data source in excel itself. And use it as source of my Pivot table. Then grouping is working fine. The only difference that I can see is (When double click the Measure value in Excel),For date values of my simple test, excel consider them as 'Date'.
For date values of my data coming from cube, excel consider them as 'General'
  2.1. But value here is same as it was in simple test.
  2.2. 'Date Filter' works just fine.
  2.3. If I just select this cell and unselect it, then excel change type to 'Date' though for that cell.Â
  2.4. I have created 4 different types of fields in my date dimension thinking that values of attribute of my dimension might be the problem, but excel consider 'General' for all of them.
  2.5 This value (that can be seen when double clicking on measure) comes from 'Name Column' of the attribute. And the DataType defined is WChar. And I thought that might be the reason of issue. And I changed it to 'Date'. But SSAS does not allow it to change to 'Date' giving error : The 'Date' data type is not allowed for the 'NameColumn' property; 'WChar' should be used.
So, I don't know, what is the puzzle piece that I am missing.
1. Date filter works, group does not work
2. Excel consider it as 'General' string.
3. SSAS does not allow to change 'NameColumn' to Date.
I have a very small SSAS database with around 35 Mb. I opened it on Excel 32 bits and started dragging fields to a pivot table and it started failing with memory errors. The behavior on the SSAS server was that memory started growing very fast until 8 GB (vm memory total) and then the error is reported in excel.
What might be the issue in such a small database? I would understand in a big database, but not on this one.
Is it possible to generate automatic refresh of excel 2013 table which displays some table of a power pivot model on file open?? I dont want to use pivottable (which supports this ...)
We have hidden few measure groups in cube for time being, where Users can browse the cube with Excel pivot. But, All these measures can be seen from Excel pivot in 'Show fields related to' drop down.
Need to remove the hidden measure groups from showing in Excel pivot and to remove 'All' option in 'Show Fields related to', So that users may not get confused by seeing all the measures. Can we achieve this.
I'm trying to show measures from 2 measures groups in a drillthrough. Obviously, it's not possible with a standard drillthrough action, but I still hope that I can somehow achieve this with the ASSP GetCustomDrillthroughMDX function.
Speaking in AdventureWorks2008R2 terms: Imagine I have a pivot table with Product Categories in filter (say, filtered on Gloves) and "Internet Sales Amount" as measure. From context menu in Excel I can call the drillthrough action which shows me the individual sales records. I would like to show in drillthrough additionally "End of Day Rate" measure from "Exchange Rates" measure group.
One option would be to join FactInternetSales with FactCurrencyRate and make EndOfDayRate a physical measure in the "Internet Sales" measure group. This is a pretty huge overhead for my scenario and I'd like to avoid this.
Another one would be to call something completely external for a drillthrough (for example, a SRRS Report).
I'm working on an SSAS 2012 OLAP cube with around 100 dimensions and a single measures group. When I try to run a simple DRILLTHROUGH query such as:
DRILLTHROUGH MAXROWS 1000 SELECT FROM [Cube] WHERE ([Measures].[Fact_Count])
I get an error as below.The specified query is too complex to be evaluated as a single statement. If I remove the majority of the dimensions from the cube I can run this query successfully. Looking at the limits set for analysis services I should be well within these.
I´ve been trying the Excel 2003 Add-in for Analysis Services because after reading the white paper from Microsoft it seemed to be a good client of Analysis Services. I´m getting trouble to make it work right, maybe some of you can help :confused: :
-Can I insert a formula as a result of applying "cubecellvalue" to a "cubemember" function?
-How do I calculate a variance, meaning the percentage of sales for example? Is it possible to divide a "cubecellvalue" into another one?
-How do I format the Excel sheet so that the format changes when drilling-up and down?
is it possible to replicate this in SSRS I wonder??I have included the code of the fields used and a snapshot of some data, and also how the Pivot looks in Excel.
I moved my OLAP DB to SQL Server 2005, installed Microsoft OLE DB Provider for Analysis Services 9.0 on the client and keep creating Pivot Tables in Excel until...
Grouping - when I try to group couple of members (or even 1 for that matter) I'm getting :
"Intrnal error: An unexpected error occurred (file"mdinfo.cpp", line 3335 function "MDInfo::Init")."
The only reference to mdinfo error I found in OLAP newsgroup where a guy was getting it trying to process the cube. My cube is processed (obviuosly). So, anybody knows what has changed with respect to grouping in PTS?
I would like my clients had access to the cube metadata. The clients use Excel to access the cube. How can they see the metadata? Have I to create a dimnesion with the metadata?
I have a 40 MB database in excel format.I need to use it in Analysis Services, I imported the data by DTS (DataTransformation Services), everything is working I can see the database,but I can't load it in the analysis services.I have to construct a cube but I can't see the database in any way Itried.Thank youI hope my message is quite clearHope to find somebody that can answer me in Italian, but English is goodas well.
I have several pivot tables in Excel that access data to a SQL 2000. We install SQL 2005, we change the ODBC from the 2000 server to the 2005 server. Now when we try to run the pivot tables I've got the following message:
"User 'public' does not have permission to run DBCC TRACEON"
Im using Sql server 2000&MS Excel 2003. i've recently moved to Sql server,i was using MS Access.
i've created an odbc connectivity and a View . i've created pivot tables in excel. my intension was once i upload the data into sql server and when i refresh the view/excel pivot, the pivot table should updated automatically with the newly entered data( i used to do the same process in Access).
pls advise me how to update the Excel pivot table.
I am facing problem like;We generate reports thru Excel Pivot table. The data is coming from salescube. Let?s assume that there are 2 products A and B. The user wants tofilter for each product and view ?stock in hand? and ?total sales? forparticular month (as two columns).From the Pivot table filtering, when we choose product A and month ?Jan?,it is showing values for ?stock in hand? and ?total sales? columns for thatmonth.But when we choose product B and month ?Jan?, it is only showing ?stock inhand? value and the ?total sales? column was suppressed/unseen. We knowthat there is no sales transaction for ?Jan? month. But we still want toshow the column title even if there are no records in the database / cube.I am not using any scripting, this pivot table was generated just thruPivot table wizard.Any way to achieve this, please advise me.Advanced thanks for u r help.--Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.com
Hi, i´m using Excel 2002/2003 Add-in for SQL Server Analysis Services and i have the following problem.
I´ve created a report with the addin and i saved it in a share directory. I have users in differents workstations with windows 2000 sp 4, excel 2003 and mdac 2.8 the problem is that sometimes when users open the report and want to do a drill down of a dimension it isn´t any data..
I downloaded a trial version of office 2007 and the data mining addin. I do not have an automatic connection to Analysis Services, so most functionality does not work. Is it possible to configure a connection with a trial version? If so, does anyone know what the server name is and how to configure it?
I have a master report that uses the "Jump to report" property to drill through to a detail report when the user clicks a report column value. This all works great and the users love it. However, when I click the brower's "Back" button to return to the master report, the master report is rerun and I am returned to page 1. If I drilled through on page 25 of the master report then I have lost my original position and I must navigate back to page 25. The users don't love this "feature"!
Is there a way I can return from the drill through detail report to the master report without using the browser's back button and losing my original position in the master report?
The excel pivot table is very powerful for the user, with dragging and dropping fields at will on the web page, but I can only get it work when run from the web server directly. The data is in SS2000 300,000 rows, get external data in Excel, then publish pivot table as HTM with interactivity. It seems to look for c:myodbc.dsn in the C: drive of the pc the user is on rather than the server, and I cannot use IP Addressing to relate to the dsn file. any ideas ?
I know that this is an Excel question, but I guess it is much more likely that an SQL person using dynamic pivot tables had stepped on this, rather than any advanced Excel user.
I am exporting a dynamic pivot table to Excel through a Stored Procedure. If the Stored Procedure that executes the dynamic pivot table returns 7 columns in one run, and 4 columns in the following update, then I have 3 orphaned columns that are still displayed in the spreadsheet. There isn't any content related to them, but the empty columns with their headers are bothering enough.
I've been trying to play with the data connection properties, but nothing deletes unused columns from former data executions.
have just implement Microsoft Dynamics NAV. and I'm trying to learn how to use this Excellent tool powerpivot add on, But when I'm trying to connect it to any SQL table that support Dynamics NAV I have an error message while downloading the table :"do not have enough memory or I should use Excel 64 bits instead 32 bits".when I check CPU memory Utilization we are just using less tha 20%. I'm working on a remote server and the using Excel 2010.
I am trying to create a pivot table in excel using Activex scripting but i am facing some problems in doing so, below is the code that I have written The line of the code where i am encountering error is highlighted in RED
Set ActiveWorkBook = oExcel.Workbooks.Open (sFile) Set oSheet = ActiveWorkBook.WorkSheets(1) oSheet.Range("A1:T1").Font.Bold = True oSheet.Cells.Select oSheet.Cells.EntireColumn.AutoFit oSheet.Range("A1").Select oSheet.Name = "Data_" & strName
Set oSheet = ActiveWorkBook.WorkSheets(2) oSheet.PivotCaches.Add(SourceType:=xlDatabase, SourceData:= "Sheet1!A$:T$").CreatePivotTable TableDestination:=Range("A3"), TableName :="PivotTable2" oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").SmallGrid = False With oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").PivotFields("Supervisor") .Orientation = xlRowField .Position = 1 End With With oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").PivotFields("Operator") .Orientation = xlRowField .Position = 2 End With With oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").PivotFields("Tag") .Orientation = xlDataField .Position = 1 End With With oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").PivotFields("Dept") .Orientation = xlPageField .Position = 1 End With With oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").PivotFields("Branch") .Orientation = xlPageField .Position = 2 End With With oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").PivotFields("Location") .Orientation = xlPageField .Position = 3 End With With oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").PivotFields("Type") .Orientation = xlPageField .Position = 4 End With oSheet.PivotTables("PivotTable2").RefreshTable ActiveWorkBook.WorkSheets(3).Delete 'ActiveWorkBook.WorkSheets(2).Delete oExcel.ActiveWorkBook.Save
'With ActiveWorkBook ' .SaveAs sFile ' .save 'End With
The following is a SAMPLE data from an excel spreadsheet. This SAMPLE data has many other fields as date. Here I have only used two date columns i.e. 28 Dec 2006 and 29 Dec 2006 This data needs to be exported into sql server 2005 table which has the fields below where I have placed the data into a table. How can this be done please?
data:
Ref Sector Name 28 Dec 2006 29 Dec 2006 1 Sovereign RUSSIA 05 null 173.21 2 Sovereign RUSSIA 07 102.99 102.22 3 Sovereign RUSSIA 10 114.33 104.63 4 Sovereign RUSSIA 18 115.50 145.50 ...
sql server table
create table tblData ( DataID int, Ref int, Sector varchar(20), Name varchar(20), Date datetime, value decimal(6,2) )
DataID Ref Sector Name Date value 1 1 Sovereign RUSSIA 05 28 Dec 2006 null 2 1 Sovereign RUSSIA 05 29 Dec 2006 173.21 3 2 Sovereign RUSSIA 07 28 Dec 2006 102.99 4 2 Sovereign RUSSIA 07 29 Dec 2006 102.22 5 3 Sovereign RUSSIA 10 28 Dec 2006 114.33 6 3 Sovereign RUSSIA 10 29 Dec 2006 104.63 7 4 Sovereign RUSSIA 18 28 Dec 2006 115.50 8 4 Sovereign RUSSIA 18 29 Dec 2006 145.50 ...
I am working with SSAS Tabular. I have a stand alone table with 60 columns and contains 120K records. Table size is 250MB. And trying to build a tabular report out of it and it is taking longer and throwing exception, screenshot attached.
It might be cross-join issues, as workaround created a dummy measure and using in report. But it working for 10-20 k records and beyond throwing same exception. I have 8 GB RAM and 100 GB free disk space.
It's an error "The 'MINIMUM_DEPENDENCY_PROBABILITY' data mining parameter is not valid..." always I try to run Analyze Key Influencers Tool. How it's possible to fix it?
I€™ve build a report in reporting services 2005, based on a MOLAP cube (Analysis Services 2005). In the cube I€™ve enabled drillthrough.
I know that we can define drillthrough in the report by clicking on one of the members of the dimension hierarchy, but that€™s not what I want. I want to be able to drillthrough on a cell. Is there any way how to do that in Reporting Services 2005?
We have started to use reporting services in integrated mode with windows sharepoint. Since this installation the drillthrough reports have stopped working. We get the following error when a hyperlink is cllicked:-
The item 'http://vtrends/reports/IslandRegionCountryState' cannot be found. (rsItemNotFound)
In the textbox properties we have set the 'Jump to Report' hyperlink option to use a condition. Based on the link clicked, one of two reports will be displayed. If i remove this condition and manually select the report to run then there are no problems. This however is not the functionality that is needed. Any help will be appreciated.
We currently have a report generated weekly running script which creates an excel file and pivot tables. Using pivot tables we can drag and drop the various required fields and the report changes instantly. But i was told there is a limitation of size while using pivot tables.
Can this report be easily created with almost all the flexibility in reporting services, if so could you please guide me with some sample report or tutorials.
currently there is a some store procedures thats run every week using a DTS manually, is there a way of automating this.
Hi people My users are having troubles with link to default drillthrough report when reports are exported to excel (they REALLY don't like this behavior ), so I decided set all of them disabled in report model, this work fine, but calculated field in reports has this drillthrough link.
Let me show you the situation. Entity Product has an UnitaryCost field, I set the EnableDrillthrough Property in False so when I export a report with this field, no link is shown.
But if I create in the report a calculated field Round(UnitaryCost) this field has a Drillthrough Link
Is this the standard and expected behavior? or its simply a BUG?
Have I done something wrong in my model? and in this case, How I can correct this?
Running SQL Server 2005, trying to develop an SSRS report to basically pivot a table of data with multiple columns.
Here's the basic source table:
Day   Cases  Referrals   Vends 1        291         0            0 2        293         1            0 3        293         1            1
And I want to display it as:
Day            1      2       3 Cases        291   293  293 Referrals      0       1     1 Vends          0        0     1
I thought I could use a matrix for this but I can't seem to get it worked out. Is this even possible?
The Day number is meant to represent the day of the month and the user would input a start and ending date parameter.
I have some questions about SQL Servers 2000 and 2005 compatibility. In my configuration I have to use both servers. The cubes are stocked in 2005 server. May I transfer from 2005 to 2000 Analysis Services the cubes?
If yes, what is the procedure? The result of migration is the same in the two different versions?
