[Mondrian] Issues with Calculated Members...

[Will Gorman]

Thanks Matt and John,

I'll make sure the below query is turned into a test case.

Will


On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 10:28 -0500, Matt Campbell wrote:
> 
> Here's a query I just ran in Analysis Services.  If a member is
> defined on dimension it has 0 children, and it's parent is *not* All.
> It's level ordinal is 0.  
> 
> The other way to define a calculated member is to attach it to another
> member.  The second set of members in my query has a calculated member
> attached to "All Gender".  In that case it's parent *is* all and it's
> ordinal is 1.  It still has 0 children, but now has 2 siblings.
> 
> 
> with
>  member gender.calculated as 'gender.m'
> member  gender.[All Gender].calculated as 'gender.m'
> member measures.countChildren as 'gender.calculated.children.Count'
> member measures.parentIsAll as 'gender.calculated.Parent IS
> gender.[All Gender]'
> member measures.levelOrdinal as 'gender.calculated.Level.Ordinal'
> 
> member measures.definedOnAllLevelOrdinal as 'gender.[all
> gender].calculated.Level.Ordinal'
> member measures.definedOnAllLevelParentIsAll as 'gender.[all
> gender].calculated.Parent IS gender.[All Gender]'
> member measures.definedOnAllLevelChildren as 'gender.[all
> gender].calculated.Children.Count'
> member measures.definedOnAllLevelSiblings as 'gender.[all
> gender].calculated.Siblings.Count'
> 
> select { measures.[countChildren],   -- returns 0
>           measures.parentIsAll,   -- returns 0
>      measures.levelOrdinal,  -- returns 0
>   measures.definedOnAllLevelOrdinal,  -- returns 1
>   measures.definedOnAllLevelParentIsAll,   -- returns 1
> measures.definedOnAllLevelChildren,  -- returns 0
>  measures.definedOnAllLevelSiblings   -- returns 2
>  } on 0 from sales
> 
> 
> On Feb 17, 2008 11:01 PM, John V. Sichi <jsichi at gmail.com> wrote:
>         Will Gorman wrote:
>         > A quick fix to this problem was to not set the all flag for
>         calculated
>         > members.  My question is should these calculated members be
>         created at
>         > the [(All)] level in the first place?  Also, should
>         calculated members
>         > have the all member if it exists as a parent?
>         
>         
>         Seems like they should be children of the all member when it
>         exists and
>         when no other parent is specified (if specifying a parent were
>         working).
>         
>         Maybe there's a way to test what MSAS does in that case?
>         
>         JVS
>         
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