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mbahena
New Contributor II
2 years ago

Cube View - Rows Name

Does anyone know how to get the Year for the time function below to display as the name in the row? 

T#YearPrior2(|GlobalTime|)

  • Hello there,

    You can try: T#YearPrior2(|GlobalTime|):Name(|MFYear|)

    There are lots of substitution variables starting with 'MF' referring to 'MemberFilter', e.g: |MFSubPeriod| 

  • Hello there,

    You can try: T#YearPrior2(|GlobalTime|):Name(|MFYear|)

    There are lots of substitution variables starting with 'MF' referring to 'MemberFilter', e.g: |MFSubPeriod| 

    • mbahena's avatar
      mbahena
      New Contributor II

      Awesome! Thank you so much for your help with this.  You rock! 😉

    • mbahena's avatar
      mbahena
      New Contributor II

      Thank you for your help with this. For this to work, I need to have the time function as the primary Member filter for each row.   The problem is that if I do that then the data becomes YTD vs. periodic data. 

      I'm trying to create a monthly view, with months as the columns and years as the rows.  I get the periodic data by using the time function in the column override 1.  This gives me the data I need but I would like to add the year in the view so the end user sees what data they are looking at.  Any other ideas?

      • Keyser_Soze's avatar
        Keyser_Soze
        Contributor

        My pleasure, I am glad that I could help !

        As for your last question, I'm really having hard time understanding your final goal ... It rises even more questions about what you are doing 
        I find it weird to have months in columns & year in rows, It gives the user hard time navigating/validating data because you're checking a single intersection each time from the cube (whilst a Data Unit could have thousands).

        Why not, in columns, show the twelve months + an extra column for whole Year (formatted differently to visually help the user). And then in rows, you can put a list of all the accounts/Entities/UD1s you wish to see. It's much more relevant 

        Can you explain this a bit more please ? "The problem is that if I do that then the data becomes YTD vs. periodic data. "