Freitag, 18. Dezember 2009

Subtotals for Named Sets

Although still in its infancy, named sets could really help you to satisfy your numerous customers ad-hoc aggregation requirements ...

... if they only would show sub-totals in excel and if you only could mount non-disjunct instances of those beasts one after the other.

Here is a tip that makes use of the implicit property of named sets to represent intersections when confronted with members of different levels from a common hierarchy.

In its extreme application, adding the [All] member to a set will deliver you a sub-total that is at the same time correctly named "Gesamtergebnis" or "Total" when displayed in excel.

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