Comments on: Calculation Context Part I: Overview

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:01:02 +0000

Hi, Sunil, you don’t have a context issue in your scenario. It seems you need a calculation that includes everything except for the current month. I would experiment with code that looks something like this:
=Sum(Spend) - Sum(Spend) Where (Month = Current Month)
That will get you an overall total and then “back out” the amount for the current month, leaving a current year total up to the end of the previous month. That’s just an idea and not the actual syntax, as I am sure you realize.

By: Sunil Patel

Sunil Patel — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:29:29 +0000

Dave,

I am trying to create formula context,
I have 3 measures to come up with.

measure 1 — PY Total Spend
measure 2 — Cy Total Spend
measure 3 —-CY Total Spend Total (till the end of the previous month)

I have been a ble to create the first 2, my problem is getting the 3rd one created.
Thanks for your help.

By: Girish Jawale

Girish Jawale — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:06:46 +0000

Hey Dave,

I really appreciate your style of explaining the concepts.
This blog has really helped me a lot.
Cab you please throw more light on input and output contexts?

Thanks & Regards,
Girish Jawale

By: Andreas

Andreas — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:37:54 +0000

I taught last week Web Intelligence courses and among the most important things I think are input/output contexts and track data (and the new formulas).
I wish we had the capability in Web Intelligence to evaluate a formula in its contexts (as we could with old DesktopIntelligence).

By: gobinath

gobinath — Wed, 19 May 2010 07:47:54 +0000

Is calculation context is used only for aggregation?
If not what are functions we can use?
pls give clear definition for calculation context

By: John McCulloch

John McCulloch — Tue, 11 May 2010 10:07:08 +0000

Hi Dave,

We were finding problems with %age calculation on a drilled report XI R2 SP4. The total we were dividing by always got filtered. XI 3 feature NOFILTER( [object]; drill) works in SP4 – this ‘drill option’ is undocumented in SP4 help – so previously we had settled for two data sources, but this is far better.

John

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 03:43:52 +0000

Hi, this really isn't a context issue. As mentioned elsewhere, this blog isn't intended to be a source of personal support. You might want to try BOB or contacting technical support with your questions if they are not related to a post here. Thanks.

By: ravi

ravi — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:20:46 +0000

while merging a vendor name only one value is duplicated .

example: vendor contains hfc, uhc ,and aetna from table A.claim vendor contains uhc aetna and cobra

when merging i got hfc
uhc
aetna
aetna
cobra

aetna is repeating twice in the merged dimension.could you please help me in resolving it.

By: Dave Rathbun

Dave Rathbun — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:59:26 +0000

Hi, and thanks for your question. From what I can see, this issue doesn’t require context. Simply create a new variable that combines Entity with Risk ID and then count the results.

By: Poonam N

Poonam N — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:40:41 +0000

I have data below
Region Country Entity RiskID ControlID
Asia India Sales 1001 2001
Asia India Sales 1001 2002
Asia India Sales 1002 2003
Asia India Marketing 1001 2001
Asia India Marketing 1001 2002
Asia India Marketing 1003 2004
Asia India Education 1001 2001
Asia India Education 1001 2002

Now in my report I want below dimensions and count of unique RiskIDs at the Entity level. as below. i.e. I want to extend the Count() function to include Entity in the input context.
Region Country Count(RiskIDs)
Asia India 5

Kindly let me know how to write the formula for above.
Thank you,
Poonam N.