EPM Dynamic exclusion of members by property

[former_member643320]

Hi gurus,

I have been trying to create a report that excludes members by property.

The users enters the property and the report should exclude the members. However the hierarchy members should still be displayed.

Pictures for illustration.

Marked in yellow are the ones to be excluded. We have a property for that.

The users enters the property number in a cell and the report should dynamically exclude all those members in that property. Also the parents should show the totals of the members being displayed. I guess I can use "calculate parents from hierarchies" for that.

Thanks in advance.

[former_member186338 · Accepted solution]

Use EPMDimensionOverride

=EPMDimensionOverride("000","ACCOUNT","[PROPERTYNAME]<>'"&B2&"'")

Where B2 - containing property value to be excluded.

"calculate parents from hierarchies" - correct!

[former_member186338 · Accepted solution]

But in general, the idea to "exclude" something is bad...

May be it's better to create alternative hierarchy...

[former_member643320 · Accepted solution]

Hi Vadim,

Thanks for your answer. What if you have the same hierarchy, but include the members by property instead of exclude? If I am putting = instead of <>, it is retrieving only the members with the property. Is there anyway I can bring the parents too?

[former_member186338 · Accepted solution]

sugunv

Why not to try yourself and post results...

Parents will also require the property value!

But not sure about parent calculation...

Anyway, have to repeat - it's not a good way! Use separate hierarchies!

[former_member643320 · Accepted solution]

Hi vadim.kalinin ,

Tried it and I am only getting the members with the property. Cannot really put the property for the parent nodes as there can be more than one property (Dept in our case).

I have tried to use RemoveMemberFromRowAxis in VBA and still it is of no use.

[former_member186338 · Accepted solution]

sugunv

"Cannot really put the property for the parent nodes" - that's the issue!