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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
    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.

     

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JamesKirkby
New Contributor III
4 years ago

That's pretty cool. So if your tree structures go down to six levels, you can dynamically group your tree structures leveraging the hierarchy within the dimension itself. Is that the intended effect?

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aneupane
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4 years ago

That's correct.....the indent level is picked from hierarchy indentation (provided by OS when .Tree is used). And we are using the indent value to generate the excel ExcelOutlineLevel.