Subsets In Rules

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Subsets In Rules

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I recently was playing around with some of the new (and by "new" I mean "new to me") TM1 rule functions, and stumbled across something that may be interesting to others. Thank you PavoGa for your help in testing and validating this thing!

For a while, we've known about the ability to use subsets in place of elements in a CellGetS/CellGetN functions, which makes sense since you can actually copy the subset name as text and paste it as a consolidation in the Architect dimension editor - nothing new here. While this works great for some cases in TIs, the DB calls in rules never quite had this functionality. For example:

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CellGetN('cubeName', vCycle, 'SubsetNameAsElement', vMeasure)   <-- This will work
DB('cubeName', !Cycle, 'SubsetNameAsElement', !Measure)         <-- This will fail
With the addition of CellValueS and CellValueN however, we now have the ability to grab data out of cubes (right hand side of rule) through subset addressing. For example:

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CellValueN('cubeName', 'Cycle':!Cycle, 'Dimension':'SubsetNameAsElement', 'Measure':!Measure) <-- This will work!!!
Please note, the Cycle and Measure references could actually be chopped off for a cleaner statement. It's entirely possible this is nothing new to anyone, but I found it interesting and thought it was worth documenting on the forums.

NOTE: This WILL work for dynamic subsets, but the performance could take a huge hit. Use at your own risk - this may be a perfect solution for some easy dynamic or static subsets, but I would guess that this would have a huge negative impact on performance for some more complicated dynamic subsets.
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Re: Subsets In Rules

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And we have some more coming don't we? :D
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Re: Subsets In Rules

Post by lotsaram »

I'm really surprised that this works given IBM has implemented something completely different in PAW with MDX aggregates replacing subsets as the mechanism for user defined consolidations.

Might be worth a query to IBM whether this will stay as a feature or is accidental and might disapear.
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