Calculated dimension for year comparaison

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 23:17:16 GMT

Hi,

To start with I defined a table with the dimension RSS_ANNEE in column:

2017	2016	2015	2014
100	30	35	40

Now I want to replace RSS_ANNEE by a calculated dimension to show the greatest and smallest selected years in the RSS_ANNEE dimension, and the delta between the two years.

Expected result if 2017, 2016, 2015 are selected in RSS_ANNEE:

2017	2015	Delta
100	35	65

To achieve that I declare a Master Dimension MyDim =ValueList($(=Max( RSS_ANNEE)),$(=Min( RSS_ANNEE )),$(=Max( RSS_ANNEE))-$(=Min( RSS_ANNEE )))

I get (with 2017, 2016, 2015 selected in RSS_ANNEE):

2017	2015	2
165	165	165

The result shows the agregation of the 3 selected years on the 3 columns of MyDim. I understand there is no relationship between MyDim and RSS_ANNEE and MyDim formula was only used to calcule the columns titles.

I could get the expected result by defining 3 measures, but the real table has 3 sub-columns for each year, so I would need to define 9 measures?

That's why I would rather define a calculated dimension if this is possible.

Thanks!

Re: Calculated dimension for year comparaison

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 21:05:46 GMT

I'd define the 9 measures.

It does not take long to define 9 measures, and it will be a lot, lot quicker to do this than spend ages & ages trying to do it via a Calculated Dimension - Especially as I doubt it is possible.

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