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View Expand - Base Expanding Range

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 8:54 pm
by shinymcshires
Fellow Forum Members:

Could use your input on this. I'm working on a budget input template for the upcoming fiscal year. My intention was to have the current year "actuals" in the first column, then a baseline starting point "version" in the adjacent column as seen below:
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This is the cube view that the expansion is referencing:
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This is the excel worksheet:
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If you look at the published page in the "Actual" version column, the n-level elements don't add up to the c-level. I believe this is a design flaw with my excel sheet: The "Actuals" dbrw formula references a c-level Period dim element (Period 12 YTD), while the "Baseline" dbrw formula references the n-level Period dim Period 1. The expansion is obviously excluding some n-level data; I think it is because of the way the cube view is set up. I have the Period dim set up as a title dim, which is outside of the publishing range of the Excel worksheet. This is by design to the users don't have to select the period- they are forced to input to the Period 1 dim. I've tried changing the cube view to include the Actual (for the "Version" dim), include Per12YTD in the Period dim. Still the same problem.

I hope this makes sense. Thank you for your thoughts on this. Please let me know if there is any clarification that is needed.