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JamesKirkby
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4 years ago

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.

     

CarolinaRuiz's avatar
CarolinaRuiz
New Contributor

Hi James,
I'm trying your code but does't work for member expansion. I'm using A#acoount.tree.
Do you know a way to play with the ident level inside a tree?

JamesKirkby's avatar
JamesKirkby
New Contributor III
3 years ago

Hi Carolina: 

The code that aneupane references is not a member expansion, but rather, conditional formatting applied to a row with a .tree expansion, in addition to the default cube view formatting mentioned above. if you follow the steps, when you export the report to excel the outline levels will appear as mentioned. Let me know if that makes sense.