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Calculated dimension for year comparaison

Hi,

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

2017201620152014
100303540

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:

20172015Delta
1003565

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):

201720152
165165165

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!



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Anonymous
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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.