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JamesKirkby
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4 years ago
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Group Columns/Excel Outline in Columns on Cube Views

Hello:   Has anyone had any success with grouping columns in a cube view in a report linked to excel, or grouping them as they export? Of course in the data explorer version you can use the tree ...
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  • aneupane's avatar
    aneupane
    4 years ago

    Hi James, 

    I did something similar lately.

    Like you mentioned, I am not able to group Column as well.

    But I am able to group Rows Dynamically by leveraging 3 components

    1. Row member: member.Tree [I believe member.TreeDescendants also work]

    2. Use RowE1IndentLevel +   ExcelOutlineLevel in formatting

    I have used following to make it dynamic

    if (RowE1IndentLevel = 0) Then
    ExcelOutlineLevel = 1
    Else if (RowE1IndentLevel = 1) Then
    ExcelOutlineLevel = 2
    Else if (RowE1IndentLevel = 2) Then
    ExcelOutlineLevel = 3
    Else if (RowE1IndentLevel = 3) Then
    ExcelOutlineLevel = 4
    Else if (RowE1IndentLevel = 4) Then
    ExcelOutlineLevel = 5
    Else
    ExcelOutlineLevel = 6
    End If

    3. In Default Cube Formatting

    ExcelExpandedOutlineLevelOnRows = 6

    ExcelMaxOutlineLevelOnRows = 6 (6 is max)

    As result, this is what you get in excel. best part if this is dynamic.

    Hope this helps.

     

Ashok's avatar
Ashok
New Contributor III
3 years ago

we are using but see this wierd issue with .Tree rows. Last row does not ge grouped properly. has anyone seen it? is there any workaround? 

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XaviC
New Contributor III
3 years ago

Hi Ashok,

I have experienced the same problem. My last row is a Total row, and this problem desappears for previous grouped rows. If it is not your case, I would try to add a blank row at the end (format: font an background color white).

Let me know if that makes sense.