SSRS – Aggregate LAST YTD or LAST CHILD Value in an SSAS query
Trying to aggregate an aggregate is not possible in SSRS. You can write custom code to capture the running total of values in a report, which works, but can have unexpected behaviour when groups in...
View ArticleHow to Filter out Last Year Value from a Percent Increase aggregation when...
This is a sister solution to my last post which describes how to use math to ignore unwanted values in a cube query for an SSRS report, but still be able to aggregate the resulting values. IIF...
View ArticleHow to build a Weekly Report with Most-Recent-Day and Week-To-Date values...
Not to beat a dead horse, but this is another SSRS aggregation situation against a cube data source that can be solved by math. This is the third in a series, and I suspect there will be a few more,...
View ArticleHow to Create an Inventory Aging Report from a Cube Data source
This is the fourth in a series of blogs about how to use math to filter out values from an SSAS dataset, and then create aggregations in a report. You want to filter out some values from a report...
View ArticleFilter a Parameter with Long List of Values Using Type Ahead
I have a customer who has huge numbers of SKUs. Their reporting is using an SSAS cube as the data source. When filtering an SSRS report the users have to scroll through many many records to get to the...
View ArticleData-Driven Subscription Fails but Report Runs Manually
In a continuation of my last blog post on Finding Report Subscription Errors, there was a tricky little reason why the subscription was failing for some of the parameter values, even though the reports...
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