Comments on: Calculation Context Part I: Overview

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:10:34 +0000

Hi Dave,
I read your blogs very frequently. They are very informative and easy to understand. The way you explain the complex things, really make our lives very easy.

Eagerly waiting for your next posts on Calculation Contexts.

By: AB

AB — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:44:52 +0000

waiting for the next post!!

By: Tej

Tej — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:36:07 +0000

Hi Dave,

Eagerly waiting for your next post on this topic. I hope you will take some to write on In,ForALL,ForEach contexts soon

By: Dopple

Dopple — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:36:46 +0000

Has the 2nd part of this post been published yet? I’m looking forward to it.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:35:21 +0000

Thanks for this post and blog in general. It has really helped me with some tricky concepts that don’t seemed to be covered in books (especially the post on unbalanced data providers!).

After reading this I seemed to be using contexts well for most things but have hit a brick wall when using counts, in some circumstances. In particular using CountAll on a dimnesion object.

I wrote up the issue on BOB:

If you have any comments on that issue it would be great but in general I’d love to see part 2 of this post!

By: Isha

Isha — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:32:18 +0000

This blog helped me a lot in understanding the basic concepts of Calculation Contexts. Thank you, Dave.
I so wish you had published some more blogs on this topic that were in drafts…

By: Grantie

Grantie — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:06:51 +0000

Hi Dave. Just wanted to extend the discussion to ranking. I’ve successfully used calculation contexts and ranking to show the top x customers, with the remaining customers grouped into “Others”. But when I place a break on this dimension, the ranking is reset within the break, meaning that each customer is now ranked as 1. I can’t see a way of telling my variables to ignore the reset on break. Have you cracked this one>?

By: femi

femi — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 07:48:06 +0000

Hi Dave,
You have explained it clearly.Would like to know more about BO.
Since I am new to this tool could to please advice me a few steps to get start with BO.
While reading your blogs always it gives some idea about BO.
Thanks a lot!

Regards
Femi

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:03:33 +0000

Create a variable that combines Risk ID and Entity and count the unique results. You would get

Sales-1001
Sales-1001
Sales-1002
Marketing-1001
Marketing-1001
Marketing-1003
Education-1001
Education-1001

When you count the unique values, you will be counting this:

Sales-1001
Sales-1002
Marketing-1001
Marketing-1003
Education-1001

That will get you 5.

By: Sandhya

Sandhya — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 06:16:52 +0000

Hi Dave,

Can you please explain in detail about the issue which poonam has posted
“Comment by Poonam N April 15th, 2010 at 6:40 am “.

I wanted all the dimesions in the report and want 5 to be displayed in the total.

Can you please explain how to do it.

Thanks,
Sandhya