Comments on: Making Up Data Part I: Personal Data Providers

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:48:13 +0000

Hi, Ravi, please see Part II of this post for a solution more like what you described.

http://www.dagira.com/2009/12/05/making-up-data-part-ii-using-universe-data/

By: ravi

ravi — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:48:30 +0000

Hi Dave,

It’s nice seeing new tricks every time I visit your blog. For the above trick I’ve faced similar kind of situation where I’ve used a different way as follows:

I’ve added a new query(Q2) to the same report where I’ve taken only ‘month’ object in Q2 and then merged with the month dimension object in Q1, then used ‘month’ object from Q2 in the report which shows the months with zero(0) values as well. All worked fine.

Do you have any suggestions for me if I’m wrong ?

Cheers

Ravi

By: Bill Avery

Bill Avery — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:14:28 +0000

This is cool! I wish I had known how to do this a few months ago. (Guess I would have if I had read your post!)

Thank you.

By: Roland Bray

Roland Bray — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:52:48 +0000

Dave

Once again you have not failed to amaze me with your understanding of the tool! I am anxiously awaiting the Crosstab post because I have been working on that requirement for quite some time.

Roland

PS
I forwarded this information (and the universe solution) to my Universe designer to gets his feedback. Hopefully we will also have success.

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:08:59 +0000

Part II is up, it details how to do some similar work with universe data instead of personal data.

http://www.dagira.com/2009/12/05/making-up-data-part-ii-using-universe-data/

By: Nidhal

Nidhal — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:26:39 +0000

Hi Dave

Really sorry for my late to answer(thaught that I will receave a notification email ones you will reply).

I m really happy to watch you site everyday(veeeeeeeeeeeeery useful!!!)

I understand now the part starting from relativeDate but I m not sure that I understand the part that I should do in the universe (creating the minimum object etc.)

Can you explain your point

Regards,

By: Prabhu

Prabhu — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:04:43 +0000

Hi Dave,

Interesting Post. I have created similar reports for my client. We have a date dimension table with which I do an outer join to get the same result.

By: Lauren L

Lauren L — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:06:43 +0000

I tried your suggestion (multiple times and ways) and realized I may not have provided enough info.
———————–
Dimension [Reporting Period]

Dimension [Asset Class] includes: Cash, Mortgage, Public,

Dimension [Portfolio] includes: A,B
Measure [Market Value] = dollar amt

For each Reporting Period entered at prompt, I’d liek to see

A Cash 10
A Mortgage 0 (where there is no record for Mortgage)
A Public 15
B Cash 0 (where there is no record for Cash)
B Mortgage 4
B Public 9

Any help you can provide would be appreciated.

By: Lauren L

Lauren L — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:35:52 +0000

Thanks Dave. I will try this.

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:08:58 +0000

Then create a query that returns all asset classes without any measures, ensuring that every class exists. Create a second query that returns your asset classes with your measures. Follow the same pattern as shown in this block (some steps can be eliminated since the asset class will be the same object in two data providers it will automatically be linked) and see what you get.