AMO Personalized Cubes
| Personalized Cubes |
| Written by Teo Lachev |
| Tuesday, 02 September 2008 02:51 |
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Scenario: You need to personalize the captions of calculated members or/and KPIs of an SSAS cube. For example, a solution vendor may need to deploy a cube to multiple clients. Instead of maintaining separate cube definitions, the vendor may prefer to change the captions of certain calculated members and KPIs per client. There wasn't a good story in SSAS 2005 about such requirements. In SSAS 2008, there are at least two techniques to tackle cube personalization. First, SSAS 2008 introduces a new Caption property to calculated members and KPIs, which Chris Webb has already written about. Vidas Matelis has provided great examples of using the Caption property. Thanks to this enhancement, you can keep the names of calculated members and KPIs the same but change only their captions. This is the good news. Read more... |
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