topic stacking dimensions in cube studio?? in SAS Web Report Studio

stacking dimensions in cube studio??

SASguyCO — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:16:25 GMT

Hi all-

Not sure if this is the right place to post this as I don't see a forum for OLAP studio but my question is pretty simple, if this is the incorrect place can a moderator please move to the correct location?

When you have a cube open and you drag your dimensions over to the rows, how do you set it up so that a new dimension does not automatically become part of the drill down for the previously selected dimension? You can do this via Cognos, but not sure how to do this in SAS OLAP.

For example I have the dimension called say "measure 1" and it has five buckets as follows. My column is an arbitrary selection called "count"

Count

grp1

grp2

grp3

grp4

grp5

Then say I want to add a dimension called "city" with 2 cities to the current layout, but by default, SAS OLAP adds it as a drill down as such:

Count

grp1 city1

city2

grp2 city1

city2

grp3 .......

and so forth.

What I want to do is add it as a new set of rows as such in other words "stacking" the dimensions....

Count

grp1

grp2

grp3

grp4

grp5

city1

city2

How do you go about doing this in Cube studio?

stacking dimensions in cube studio??

metalray — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:04:29 GMT

Hi SASguyCO,

There is no community for SAS OLAP yet, its brilliant, I know 😕
When you say you drag dimensions, and use OLAP Cube Studio to "View the cube".
Have you tried using the OLAP Viewer in EG (open a cube in EG). It is much much
better than the OLAP Viewer in Cube Studio.

Regards,
Bob

stacking dimensions in cube studio??

TSBruce — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:55:18 GMT

SAS does not currently support this type of dimension stacking.

stacking dimensions in cube studio??

SASguyCO — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:35:22 GMT

Thanks Bob, yes I only use SAS EG to view the cubes. It is a great tool.

stacking dimensions in cube studio??

SASguyCO — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:36:20 GMT

Thanks Bruce, I have since learned this as well through talking with someone on the phone at SAS support. It seems like it would be a great feature to add in a future update as Cognos has this ability.......