August 8, 2013 at 12:55 pm
I have an extraction from our ERP system called FinancialDetails that has the following columns:
DatePosted (linked to dimension)
ChargeType (linked to dimension)
DeptCharged (linked to dimension)
Text about Charge
Secondary Text
Value Charged (aggregated)
I built a data cube with two dimension tables:
DimChargeTypes
DimDepartments (has the hierarchy of departments)
DimCalendar (has the hierarchy from year to half to quarter to month to week to day)
I created a very simple data cube with FinancialDetails being the "FACT" table and three dimension tables. I can't bring in the Text about Charge or Secondary Text into my cube - which isn't a big deal as they don't need that in the Pivoting they are doing.
However, my users are exploring the data cube in Excel but when they double click on the Value Charged, to get the details, I want to take them to the details in the FinancialDetails table but right now my cube only shows the Measure (Value Charged) and my Dimensions.
How do I get my cube to drill down to the FinancialDetails table?
Dennis
August 8, 2013 at 2:17 pm
I think you need to define a drillthrough action in SSAS:
Defining and Using a Drillthrough Action
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August 8, 2013 at 2:31 pm
Thanks. I finally figured it out by moving my attributes to a Dimension table and using a key to lookup the value that way. I then created a new default Drillthrough to bring in the attributes of the dimensions.
August 22, 2013 at 4:01 am
You can bring in the text about the charge. It is possible for the FACT table to also act as a dimension table. Basically you create a bnew dimension based on the fact table and then add it to the cube. The relationship type will be FACT and in the dimension make the text an attribute of the dimension.
It is possible however as with everything there is a price. Once you do this you end up with a dimension with as many members as the fact table and the users will never ever ever stop from asking you to add every single field into this new wonderfull dimension. This is assuming that the text is unique for each. I have seen some lovely cubes trashed beyond hope by doing this so proceed with caution.
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