dbTalk Databases Forums  

Drillthrough not working on geography dimension

microsoft.public.sqlserver.olap microsoft.public.sqlserver.olap


Discuss Drillthrough not working on geography dimension in the microsoft.public.sqlserver.olap forum.



Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #1  
Old   
TK
 
Posts: n/a

Default Drillthrough not working on geography dimension - 09-22-2005 , 08:25 AM






Hi,
I have a situation where drillthrough is enabled for a cube with 14
different dimensions, one of which is a geography dimension. It
includes the levels "country", "state", "city". Drill through works
when viewing data by all other dimensions but when attempting to
drillthrough via the geography dimension on all levels it returns no
rows, just column headers (unless I drillthrough on the "All Geography
level", in which case it returns data). I have tried rebuilding the
cube (advise I have read in other threads), but end up with the same
results. Another interesting thing is, I built a test cube with only
the geography dimension and another dimension. Again the same results
as above. However when I remove the "country" level from the dimension
it works fine when drilling through on the state and city levels.
Nothing is customized on the dimension and there are no customizations
to the cube, everything is standard. Any advise would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom


Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old   
Darren Gosbell
 
Posts: n/a

Default Re: Drillthrough not working on geography dimension - 09-25-2005 , 11:34 PM






Try running SQL Profiler while doing a drillthrough operation to see
what SQL is being executed as this may give you some hints.

(assuming your data source is SQL Server)

--
Regards
Darren Gosbell [MCSD]
<dgosbell_at_yahoo_dot_com>
Blog: http://www.geekswithblogs.net/darrengosbell

In article <1127395553.433431.87240 (AT) o13g2000cwo (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
tomkardaras (AT) hotmail (DOT) com says...
Quote:
Hi,
I have a situation where drillthrough is enabled for a cube with 14
different dimensions, one of which is a geography dimension. It
includes the levels "country", "state", "city". Drill through works
when viewing data by all other dimensions but when attempting to
drillthrough via the geography dimension on all levels it returns no
rows, just column headers (unless I drillthrough on the "All Geography
level", in which case it returns data). I have tried rebuilding the
cube (advise I have read in other threads), but end up with the same
results. Another interesting thing is, I built a test cube with only
the geography dimension and another dimension. Again the same results
as above. However when I remove the "country" level from the dimension
it works fine when drilling through on the state and city levels.
Nothing is customized on the dimension and there are no customizations
to the cube, everything is standard. Any advise would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom




Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old   
michael v
 
Posts: n/a

Default Re: Drillthrough not working on geography dimension - 09-26-2005 , 01:02 PM



And you're not selecting more than one member in the geography dimension ?

As I understand drillthrough doesn't support that

"TK" <tomkardaras (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:
Hi,
I have a situation where drillthrough is enabled for a cube with 14
different dimensions, one of which is a geography dimension. It
includes the levels "country", "state", "city". Drill through works
when viewing data by all other dimensions but when attempting to
drillthrough via the geography dimension on all levels it returns no
rows, just column headers (unless I drillthrough on the "All Geography
level", in which case it returns data). I have tried rebuilding the
cube (advise I have read in other threads), but end up with the same
results. Another interesting thing is, I built a test cube with only
the geography dimension and another dimension. Again the same results
as above. However when I remove the "country" level from the dimension
it works fine when drilling through on the state and city levels.
Nothing is customized on the dimension and there are no customizations
to the cube, everything is standard. Any advise would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Tom




Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old   
TK
 
Posts: n/a

Default Re: Drillthrough not working on geography dimension - 09-30-2005 , 02:58 PM



Thanks for the responses. I couldn't run tracer (unfortunately I am
using Oracle as the source). I figured out the problem was that
analysis services seems to right justify the field when querying the
source data. The coutry field was defined as Char(4) in the database. I
simply added the TRIM() funtion to the member name and member key
columns and everything worked fine.
One of those easy fixes that you can't easily see.
Again, I appreciate the responses.


Reply With Quote
Reply




Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

vB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off



Powered by vBulletin Version 3.5.3
Copyright ©2000 - 2012, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.