Elements that contain data after zero suppression

[Wim Gielis]

Hello all,

Suppose you are creating a view with 1 dimension in the rows section, no zero suppression, 1000 rows remain.
Then you turn on zero suppression, say 200 rows remain.
All fine and dandy.

I would very much welcome to be able to select only the elements in the current subset (in the rows dimension) that really have data after zero suppression. Say, 200 elements out of 1000.
This means, hiding the 800 elements, which are not useful in the given context. Na manually selecting elements that remain as valid combinations.

What do others think ? Or is there a trick I am unaware of (besides snapshotting to Excel or MDX or TI process) ?

Enjoy the weekend,

Wim

[Alan Kirk]

I would very much welcome to be able to select only the elements in the current subset (in the rows dimension) that really have data after zero suppression. Say, 200 elements out of 1000.

+1; the only workaround I've used for this situation is the snapshot one which is (IMHO) unnecessarily laborious. I don't need to do this often but when I do it's an irritation. A minor irritation I grant you, but an irritation nonetheless. A "one click" solution would be welcome.

[Gabor]

I think, it would be a great feature to have a kind of "Pick displayed elements" button when open the col/rows subset editor from a zero suppressed view.

[rmackenzie]

I would very much welcome to be able to select only the elements in the current subset (in the rows dimension) that really have data after zero suppression. Say, 200 elements out of 1000.

I used the 'Filter by View Extract' function on the subset editor to do this today. It was on }ClientGroups - so that I got any }Clients that are member of group A. This way, one can see members of Group A that aren't in Group B, but, not display people in Group B who aren't in Group A which is what happens if you zero suppress against all }Clients and Group A and Group B.

There was a recent poll/ survey on this function which found that most people on this forum think it is a bit useless. However, it helped me in this situation. It helps that }ClientGroups has two flat dimensions. On cubes with even quite simple hierarchies, it gets a bit annoying (and not at all helpful). Anyway, maybe this will assist you.