Rounding in cube views
Hi there,
We need to see cube view figures which are rounded to an integer. Could you please advise how to round figures in cube view?
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Joakim,
Thank you! I see now that visually in cube view figures are rounded to the nearest whole number. However, when I open cube view in Excel, I see in cells that figures contain decimals. Could you please advise is it possible to round these figures to the full numbers in Excel (as if we apply to each figure ROUND(,0) function)?
Be aware that presentation layer (such as in a Cube View) "rounding" using formatting can result in numbers that do not appear to add up. For example, consider two children each containing 1.4 resulting in a parent of 2.8. When rounded at the presentation layer, you will have 1 + 1 = 3. That seldom makes for a happy accountant. If they are ok with that, then great, as this is certainly the easiest way to get the job done.
If you need the rounded numbers to add up and match across different reports regardless of reporting dimensionality, then you need to perform the rounding with stored calculations in the cube and potentially provide the user a facility to enter rounding adjustments - depending on whether they want to see 1 + 1 = 2, 1 + 2 = 3 or 2 + 1 = 3 (using the above example).