Chandbi


Hi Friends!

I m working on a learning BI project in MS Analysis Services 2005.I have designed a cube having tea production quantity as measure and district,garden,time are dimensions.This cube is designed to analyze tea production of several gardens of a producer.

Here is the relation between measure and dimension:

A GARDEN(Dimension) of a DISTRICT(Dimension) produces certain amount of tea(Measure) for a particular TIME(Dimension)

My quesion is :

I am using a chart to show the tea production.Initially the chart shows Production as Y-axis,Year as X-axis and District as Series.I want to add a drilldown feature in the chart so that it can be drilldowned to Quarter even Month level.I have Quarter and Month as hierarchy in the Time dimension.

Thanks in advance for answering this question.

Regards,

Chandan




Re: Drilldown/interactive chart

Bryan C. Smith


What reporting tool are you using

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Re: Drilldown/interactive chart

Chandbi

Bryan,

Thank you for your response.

I am using MS Reporting Services 2005.

Thanks

Chandan





Re: Drilldown/interactive chart

Bryan C. Smith

Sorry for the slow response. It's been one heck of a week around here.

So, to achieve "drill down" you need to either load the detail but hide it with collapsed groups, use an embedded report, or jump to an external report. I'm thiking the later is the best approach for charts.

If you are looking for simple "click-on-chart and select next level" type functionality, you might want to look at Performance Point.

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Re: Drilldown/interactive chart

Chandbi

Hi,

Its not clear to me.Can you write the mdx query for me to solve the proglem pls

chandan





Re: Drilldown/interactive chart

Bryan C. Smith

This is a reporting services issue. There is no MDX solution.

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Re: Drilldown/interactive chart

jam96-BuffaloJoe

Hi,

I solved a solution like you describe for www.cendant.com.

I used a graph control and custom predefined drillpaths.

I presented the top level of the company dimension to the graph.

When the user clicks on the graph, coommunicate the graph's bar property to the next mdx query to the database cube. then represent the graph with the next view of the qube using MDX.

You are thinking about a proclarity ish type interface.

I used web office components, graph control.

Joe





Re: Drilldown/interactive chart

Deepak Puri

Though this paper was written for Reporting Services 2000, it explains how to use the Reporting Services "Drill-through" Action to launch a 2nd report from a cube-based chart report, to provide more details:

Microsoft SQL 2000 Technical Articles
Integrating Analysis Services with Reporting Services

Sean Boon
Microsoft Corporation

June 2004

Applies to:
Microsoft SQL Server 2000

Summary: Create a compelling solution for your customer that defines and manages great-looking Analysis Services reports, and quickly answers analytical questions to improve traditional reporting scenarios. (33 printed pages)

Download the associated ASandRSSamples.exe code sample.

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Adding "Drill-through" Capability to a Report

The concept of "drill-through" can mean different things depending on the technology being used. For those familiar with Analysis Services, drill-through represents the ability to return the detail records that contribute to the value of a cell. For Reporting Services, "drill-through" is the capability to jump from one report to another report when the user selects an action-enabled object on the report.

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Using the Reporting Services "Drill-through" Action

In the first example, we'll create a report action that is triggered when a user selects a bar on a chart. The report for this example is included in the file FoodmartDrillThrough.rdl. If you preview this report, you'll find that the report contains a chart that displays the sales for the selected product and time period for each city. If you select any of the bars that represent the sales of a city, a report action of type "drillthrough" is executed. This process opens the FoodmartDrilledTo report that displays how each promotion contributed to the overall sales of the selected product. The report parameters from the initial report are passed to the second report and are displayed at the top of the report for reference.

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