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Default semi-additive measure requires a time dimension (SSAS 2K5) - 01-16-2006 , 04:18 PM






using newbie.advance.apologies;

I have a measure using precalculated values from a fact table column. I
don't want these values to be aggregated, just returned by the query.

For the measure I tried selecting AggregateFunction=None but I want the
values returned when the query is not confined to leaf.

The next thing I attempted is FirstNonEmpty which should be ok since the
fact column has low cardinality. However the measure group gets a red
squiggle under it and when I hover, I see the message "semi-additive measure
requires a time dimension".

How do I associate the time dimension with this measure? The fact table
already has a time dim key, and the association is represented in both the
cube.dsv and the dimension usage tab.

What more do I have to do? None of the measure properties look relevant.
Ashamed to say it but I even tried dragging and dropping the dim on to the
measure!

Ta in advance,
David

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Default RE: semi-additive measure requires a time dimension (SSAS 2K5) - 01-16-2006 , 10:16 PM






Figured it out, forgot to set time dim type to regular instead of time.

However when I pulled up the measure by time in the browser, the values were
multiplied by exactly 214 which is the count of all rows having the same
value.

I gave up with this approach and created a calculated member instead.


"David Norman" wrote:

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using newbie.advance.apologies;

I have a measure using precalculated values from a fact table column. I
don't want these values to be aggregated, just returned by the query.

For the measure I tried selecting AggregateFunction=None but I want the
values returned when the query is not confined to leaf.

The next thing I attempted is FirstNonEmpty which should be ok since the
fact column has low cardinality. However the measure group gets a red
squiggle under it and when I hover, I see the message "semi-additive measure
requires a time dimension".

How do I associate the time dimension with this measure? The fact table
already has a time dim key, and the association is represented in both the
cube.dsv and the dimension usage tab.

What more do I have to do? None of the measure properties look relevant.
Ashamed to say it but I even tried dragging and dropping the dim on to the
measure!

Ta in advance,
David

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